Critics argue that the monarchy lacks the unilateral power to dissolve Parliament under the 2022 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act.
Is that what “critics” argue about?
How about the massive South African white elephant in the room:
Why the fuck should Charles even acknowledge Musk’s noises?
If I was Charles, I’d offer Elon Musk a knighthood to piss him off.
Musk would have to choose between stoking his gigantic ego with the title at the cost of giving up any post in the federal government as per article I, section 9, clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution or humiliate himself and refuse the title to keep running the orange utan he’s invested billions in.
No. It feels like the utra-rich are the ones flinging the shit at the fan and ducking to let the rest of society get splattered.
She’s already been replaced by AI.
I think they probably count on the Edward Snowden effect - i.e. people are massively outraged for a few weeks, then they lose interest, move on to the next hot topic and nothing changes.
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You’d think UHC would strive to behave impeccably with all the publicity around them lately. But no: they’re so shameless and so greedy they even behave rotten when everybody is busy dissecting their every moves. Amazing…
The pharma industry is doing the US public a service by getting people used to paying Trump’s tariffs early.
A lot of those BT adapters are cheap shit. Like the aforementioned RTL8821CE: it’s a nasty hack to do wifi and BT using a single 2.4 GHz transponder. But here’s the thing: however bad they are, they’re made to work well in Windows - possibly with a lot of awful engineering shortcuts and hackery, but in the end, Windows users will never know and that’s the point.
When open-source developers try to make equivalent Linux drivers without documentation or help from the manufacturer, reverse-engineering their way around the general crappiness of the products, you get… well, not very good drivers. And it really is nobody’s fault but the unhelpful adapter’s manufacturer.
So there is that, and the general bugginess on BlueZ on top of it.
My experience with Bluetooth support in Linux is: you’re either using one of the very few problem-free BT controllers and it works okay most of the time, or you have more or less problems all of the time.
The least problematic controllers I own are ASUS USB-BT500. The most problematic are ASUS USB-BT400 and Realtek RTL8821CE.
The state of Bluetooth in Linux is completely terrible, it has been for many, many years and it’s hardly getting any better. Bluez, like Pulseaudio, needs to die, and sooner rather than later.
Jimmy Carter, like all US presidents, had blood on his hands.
But as US presidents go, he was a good man.
And if you don’t think so, wait 4 more years of the unhinged angry orange utan and you’ll change your mind.
It was sarcasm. There’s nothing to love about it of course.
Luigi or not, there’s nothing good to be said about the privatized US prison system. It’s all shades of terrible, like everything that’s driven by greed and almost completely unregulated. But it’s made even worse by the customer base being literally captive.
It’s sad, but… You gotta love the irony of Luigi’s health now depending on a carceral healthcare provider. Something tells me he’s gonna wait a long longer than other inmates to get an aspirin tablet.
Quite a display of senile dementia.
I don’t trust any presidential candidate.
You know why?
Because anybody who runs for president is someone who woke up one morning, looked in the bathroom mirror and thought “I know what the country needs, and that’s ME.”
Anybody who has the type of narcissistic personality required to even think of running for president is not entirely fit mentally and inherently highly dangerous.
Public dissatisfaction eh?
The public voted Trump in, and now the public is dissatisfied? Sorry but that’s a bit rich. When you shoot yourself in the foot, you lose the right to complain about guns.
I understand the appeal of “teaching them a lesson”, purely for spiteful reasons. But there are problems with that approach:
You can teach a child never to put his hand on the burner by putting his hand on the burner. He’ll learn alright, but he’ll also have a nasty burn. Similarly, you don’t want people to learn the dangers of populism and extreme right by letting the extreme-right populist do stupid shit and wreck their lives.
We who didn’t vote for the dangerous populist live in the same country as those who did: even if we wanted to let the dangerous populist hurt them to teach them a lesson, he’ll hurt us too in the process.
History always repeat itself: even if everybody learns a hard lesson after Trump is done wrecking the economy - or worse - our children, or our children’s children will invariably elect another Trump some day. So we might as well do our best to limit the damage each time.
74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation
How about not voting the guy in then?
“Reactivating dormant IP” aka “Milking old franchises”, because it’s cheaper and safer than coming up with innovative stuff.
Aren’t all leaders?
For politicians, it takes a particular mindset to think you’re the solution to other people’s problems and run for any election. I instantly distrust people who thrust themselves in the limelight and propose to rule others for their own good.
As for CEO’s, it’s very well known that a disturbing percentage of them display psychopathic traits.