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I completely agree. Unless Google is forced to install more than one app store by default, or forced to have multiple app stores downloadable on Play Store, three is no realistic way to install a third party app store on a phone. In both cases, Google’s cooperation is required.

I feel you. That’s exactly what Putin did. Get rid of one oligarch so the other ones knew what happens if you don’t toe the party line.

Well, yes, of course! I mean, for a hundred years Harvard hosted foreign students, but NOW they are a security threat.

It must be really hard to be a lawyer or judge facing these cases, knowing that if you laugh you are going to become the next national security threat.

the man […] had called on French people to seek out and shoot people of foreign origin.

This happened near Fréjus, on the Cóte d’Azur, one of the most touristy places on the planet. It’s crawling with Brits and Americans and Germans and Poles and any place far and wide. But of course, to a diseased mind like this man’s, it’s only “foreign” if it is the particular shade of skin he doesn’t like: Middle-Eastern.

Conservatives are genuinely such disgustingly cruel, depraved monsters. It makes me sick.

Why do the beautiful souls have to leave us, and not the ugly ones?

Ironically, the reason she refused the pardon is a reason to pardon her.

I mean, the law firm executive orders read like they were written by a first-year who flunked Constitutional Law three times in a row. If a law firm can’t appreciate how easy they would be to defend against, and what great PR a win would be, then they can’t be helped - and worse, can’t help anyone.

UBS Group AG analysts said in a recent note that investors’ shift away from US assets will channel €1.2 trillion ($1.4 trillion) into Europe’s stock market over the next five years.

I have a sense American oligarchs will regret their support of this administration for a very, very long time

Well, that makes perfect sense. After all, America is drowning in an overpopulation of competent health workers! /s

Oh, the joys of being old! I remember the GWB years, when PBS was pressured into a Both Viewpoints era and suddenly they had “experts” extolling the virtues of Trickle Down Capitalism.

If you stand for something, like PBS has, it’s always a terrible idea to cater to the opposite. Liberal law firms that settled with the Trump administration have found that out, Target is finding it out, and PBS might do, as well.

It’s so weird that we have to go through hoops and loops to get rid of this stuff! I was sick of my Android responding to a long press of the power button, meant to shut it down, with a Gemini prompt. Took me an hour to figure out I can’t get rid of the function, but I can switch back (for now) to old style Google Assistant.

If you have to force functionality down your users’ throat despite them not wanting it, you already lost. Gemini is Google’s Clippy, just less iconic and more also-ran.

We may very well in the future, of course! But maybe at the rate technology develops, it could be smarter to start working on it when the threat becomes visible.

I venture the uneducated guess that satellite to satellite might be the next space defense frontier ahead of space to ground.

I think it’s because the threat model against which a Golden Dome defends is just not that plausible any longer. Given the distances, a space-based ground defense can only protect from long-range attacks, like ICBMs. Unlike in the 80s, the technology to intercept and destroy ICBMs safely is now probably there, but the threat of all out nuclear war is much reduced.

It boggles the mind that the only sanction for willful violation of the Constitution of the United States is a judge having to beg to have the guy brought back.

There really should be jail time for anyone in a position of power that knowingly ignores people’s rights.

Oh, great. Took them only a month and a half to decide. During that time, Trump’s tariffs have shown to be political and economic poison.

Now he gets to walk away with the threat of imposing tariffs still in his pocket (since it takes the judiciary that long to make a call), but the ability to blame “Liberal Activist Judges” if things don’t work out.

Imagine the utopia of milk and honey the USA could have been if ONLY the tariffs could have been enacted like the Constitution wanted! /s