My son taught himself English by setting Minecraft to English. Once he mastered that, he set it to Pirate.

The first is fine. The ending is great, some other parts are bad. Some are very questionable. On the whole, I enjoyed it.

The Tates sell their “be a man” coaching package

As if he’d know how.

SO used to be really good in the past, but these days when I’m looking for an answer to a problem, I only unanswered closed questions.

Congestion is literally made out of cars. Without cars, there would be no congestion.

Ah, is that the way to address that? I don’t run into incorrect error highlighting often, and it’s mostly great, but when it gets it wrong, it can be very stubborn about it.

Ticketed and towed.

Or is xAI paying for access to Telegram conversations to train Grok?

It’s worth remembering that there was a time when the highest US tax bracket was taxed at 90%, and that didn’t stop the US’s longest period of sustained economic growth.

Ridiculously high tax rates for ridiculously high incomes have been done before and are entirely feasible.

There are a few exceptions. JK Rowlings became a billionaire simply by writing some really popular books, and even stopped being a billionaire by giving much of her wealth away. As far as I can tell, she didn’t become an asshole until later.

I’m willing to say more positive things about him. His dedication to Linux is great of course, but I’ve also heard that people working for him get a lot of freedom to choose what to work on. And no crunch. In the games industry, that’s pretty good.

So yeah, he seems to me to be one of the better among the tech billionaires. But in the end, he’s still a billionaire, and he’s god that ridiculous fleet of super yachts.

There was a time the same was true for Elon Musk, before he suddenly decided to jump the queue. I really hope Gabe isn’t going down that path.

The parliaments don’t, and they don’t have the loyalty to the security apparatus that US Congress has.

Either way, this is a distinct and important difference between the US and the EU, and a frequent point of disagreement in treaties and discussions between the two. It’s silly to claim they’re the same on this.

Not “the EU”, but one particular group in the EU. This sort of thing pops up every couple of years, and unlike in the US, it always gets shot down. The current law says the exact opposite.

“Those of us who”? Dude, you’re here encouraging apathy and arguing this is nothing special. You’re not fighting for anything, and now you want to pretend you’re the one fighting the good fight here?

I’ve been fighting for these issues for decades. Many have. You don’t see us arguing that “none of this is newsworthy”. It makes our news every single time.

You’re doing a poor job living up to that username of yours.

EU law prevents any government from accessing your email or other data, whereas the US demands easy access to your data. That’s what I’m referring to.

But I’ve also never heard of them blocking anyone’s email, and certainly not in retaliation for investigating war crimes.

I am not the one forgetting that. You are forgetting that the EU is not the US, and EU law is the polar opposite of US law on this issue.

Are you intentionally trying to miss the point? Don’t you think it matters what the law is? Harmful laws are absolutely newsworthy. Your data not being safe in the biggest data platforms in the world is absolutely newsworthy. I don’t understand how you can be so apathetic about that.

It doesn’t matter that they’re forced by law. That just means no US company is safe. It still means you need to get your stuff out of there.

And yes, your data and email can be safe, because EU law requires your data to be safe. It is becoming impossible for international tech companies to obey both US and EU law, and if you want your stuff to be safe, you should choose one that obeys EU law.

Mind you, Microsoft is actually planning to do something about this; they’ve suggested (but not yet implemented, I think) separating their EU based servers into a separate daughter company under a European board. But until they actually implement that, your data isn’t safe.

And your data is even less safe with some other US tech companies which have a longer history of flaunting EU data protection rules in order to exploit your data.

And those laws currently serve to suppress the international rule of law, and to enable fascism.

Why would you possibly think this is no big deal, when you see the size of the deal right in front of you?

US companies are subservient to Trump and will hurt you when Trump demands that.