While everyone worries about such minor trivia, the Chief is replacing a host of public servants with his own cronies, all in the name of DOGE.
For those familiar with medieval history, that's exactly what every tyrant/lord/baron/... did to get rid of any enemies, and ensure his own son would rule after his death.
Also, I guess a significant part of public spending will be redirected to the oligarchs that attended his crowning ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H nomination.
That could be a problem with those on a minimum wage, or already working two jobs, but hey, isn't everyone in the US a millionaire?
From an English perspective I think the Tudor period fits even better than Medieval. A semblance of government with an unpredictable and capricious monarch.
I'm sure your TV told you it was a thing of the past, hence your anger. Stupidity is often taken advantage of. Imagine that.
It's called the "spoils system" and it's still very much alive and very common among leftists in the US, eg New York State and City.
Truth will tamp down the anger, mostly because you'd be angry all the time and get exhausted. I recommend books, personally. "Tales from the Sausage Factory: Making Laws in New York State" for example discusses your topic. You will have to really, really put in work in to be angry at [checks notes] Trump or anyone anywhere near associated with the GOP.
Most frameworks are still there (requiring everyone be fluent in all of them) just because no meteorite killed that specific dinosaur.
Every framework starts from scratch pretending all done before belongs to the trash can, much like that multi-year discussion re: Raku being better than Perl just because has "say" instead of "print".
The net outcome of that? the complete irrelevance of both.
Dear nerd-framework author, can you all invest 5 minutes in a cross compiler/converter, strive for compatibility and not reinventing the wheel when native JS performs the very same thing?
Let's talk about the Italian-speaking people in Italy and neighboring countries peddling utilities with bills 2-3x the cheapest, or scamming people altogether.
When phone companies agree not to take bribes from criminals, and publish the real phone number instead of fakes - well it would be a great day.
I guess it can be used also in other ways, especially when you hit a wall.
E.g. my Italian windows key map does not have tilde nor backtick available, and it's just a pain to type the usual alt 126 thing on a modern laptop keyboard, where even the HOME key requires some Fn shenigan. Dell and MS, wow!
If you haven't tried yet, PowerToys' keyboard manager allows shortcuts for single character outputs.
That's what I do for accented characters (e.g. Alt+Shift+C -> ç) and currency characters, it works pretty decently (found it more reliable than AutoHotKey for instance)
I keep a second layout, the "US, alt. intl." (US international alternative?)even on computers without US keyboards, then use a hotkey such as win + space to swap between them and "\" becomes the backtick.
Not only it's easy to write "~" but it's also easier to write upper case accented letters since it's just backtick + shift + vowel
This would be extremely useful, since phones typically add the correct accents automatically. But on my laptop I need to do this myself (using a deadkeys layout).
Is this another instance of "my external contractors need access my data but I cannot ask them to install an authenticator app on their BYOD mobiles"... Nor manage proper authentication for my randomly built BI suite?
How about building some government you trust, check on their actions, ousting madmen from politics, and strictly regulate this 2a nonsense once for all?
Unless, of course, you really trust Trump less than any random wacko....
Right wing 2A nuts immediately called the guy who tried to “stop a tyrant” by exercising his rights to bear arms against Trump a “Democrat terrorist”. If he hadn’t been fatally shot, they would have demanded he be executed.
Trump is an 80s dem at best. Right wing 2A nuts generally consider Trump a tyrant exemplified by 'take the guns first and due process later' and banning bump stocks.
Trump won the hard right nuts votes merely by being seen as slightly not as bad on core issues as the other main candidate.
The guy didn't, and no one stopped him from collecting the very same data he could be using or will use to blackmail or worse.
Sorry to note that political allegiance beats common sense.
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