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This feels like a very clearly overly broad request easily challenged in any sane court. Whether that matters anymore is questionable.

I’ve said this for years.

The bullshit justification for these cockroach companies is always about fiduciary responsibility to shareholders.

Shareholders need to start suing these companies for failing their fiduciary responsibilities by allowing strikes like this. The strikes are never surprising. They’re always obvious and the result is as well. All it does is cost millions/billions of dollars and is completely avoidable. How that doesn’t inherently fail the fiduciary responsibility is baffling to me.

Given the symptoms reported… There was no reason to expect anything out of the ordinary.

“They were not thinking that these symptoms were compatible with hantavirus. Why? Because what she was telling [them] was [that she had] an episode of coughing some days ago that had disappeared, and what she was having at that moment was kind of like stress or anxiety or nervousness. So it was not catalogued [as hantavirus],” Padilla said.

Well of course. Republican naming schemes are to call something the exact opposite of what it is. Across the board. Doesn’t matter if it’s something they’re trying to pass or something they are against.

If you hear them talking about something you can safely assume it’s the exact opposite of reality.

That would require the DOJ to not be political, and they very definitely are nowhere near that point anymore.

The Judicial needs their own enforcement arm. Once we’re through this (one way or another) the US Marshall’s Service should be moved under the Judicial Branch to enforce Judicial Decisions instead of relying on the Executive Branch.

Do you have anything actually meaningful to bring to the discussion other than your self-righteousness?

I did in the first part of my comment. I didn’t provide any links, because you didn’t. If that’s what you want though, fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent

The seven-continent model is taught in most English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and also in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Suriname, parts of Europe and Africa.

So together that represents 4.1 billion of the 8.3 billion people on the planet

The six-continent combined-Eurasia model is mostly used in Russia and some parts of Eastern Europe.

If we add just Russia to that list, even ignoring the rest of Eastern Europe, we come to 4.2 billion, or over half of the global population now.

The six-continent combined-America model is taught in Greece and many Romance-speaking countries—including Latin America.

I’m assuming you’re in Latin America, and that’s why you’re taking this personally. My commentary was simply about you being pedantic about something that doesn’t really matter. The tone of your post seemed to imply that your opinion here was the only correct one… something that clearly isn’t accurate.

I didn’t realize that half the world combined the Americas, much like it seems you didn’t know that as well given your original post.

Either way, this discussion is off topic from the original post about Healthcare in the US and ultimately pointless here. I can only assume you came here looking for an argument given the tone of your original post and responses so far, so you can have fun arguing with yourself over pointless delineations that serve no purpose. Have a good day.

I would like to, politely, remind that America is actually 2 continents.

Why you gotta insist on being annoyingly pedantic for no reason? You know when people say “America” when the discussion context is a country, that they are referring to the USA. And then being pedantic about it and wrong? Oh boy.

Oh the things I could rant on about Android Automotive, and about legacy automakers integrating “smart” things poorly.

Part of this is another well deserved rant against GM for not putting Android Auto on their cars. That’s something that other manufacturers do and I suppose in that case it actually would work well. I don’t know.

If you want to be even more unreasonably angered about this… I currently drive a Honda Prologue, which uses GM’s Ultima EV platform. The Play Store even shows the car “device” as a “GM Aegean”. It supports Android Auto. Even puts it in the little app window as if the system wasn’t already running Android Automotive. Regular Android Auto just like on any other vehicle… inside Android Automotive. They could do it, they chose not to.

Several vehicle infotainment systems literally run Android. Android Automotive is an entire branch dedicated to being an entire vehicle infotainment system… separate from Android Auto on your phone.

You say that as if the two aren’t synonymous.

Yeah the real question is why the backup software companies are choosing to use a known vulnerable kernel driver.

The quote from the article:

I reached out to Microsoft for a statement and a spokesperson proviued the following: “In the April 2026 Windows security update, we added known vulnerable kernel driver psmounterex.sys to the Vulnerable Driver Blocklist. Backup applications that rely on this driver may experience failures when attempting to mount or manage disk images. We do not recommend uninstalling or pausing this update. Customers with an impacted driver should install the latest application versions and validate against the driver blocklist to remain protected. For more information, please see here.”

Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!

Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

Security technicians: takes a deep swig of whiskey I wish I had been born in the neolithic.

If you don’t use a rewards or loyalty program, you’re already paying the highest price for the items.

Well, you can get the hardware now for one.

Would be an interesting comparison once it does release though. Especially for a price/performance comparison now that Sony increased PS5 pricing.

Because middle manglement has a constant compulsive need to justify their existence by finding new ways and metrics to “manage”.

Yeah… That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the purpose of a false flag. Hide the source to give yourself an excuse to do what you want but can’t yet justify.

A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party.

So… He attends the dinner for the first time after 5 years of not going… And there’s a shooter that doesn’t actually shoot anyone?

They’re not even attempting to hide their false flags anymore are they?

Someone’s got to manually sift through the scraped training dataset to make sure that it doesn’t contain CSAM or NSFL.

You think most of these companies are bothering to do that? Seriously? Even after the recent Grok CSAM generation stuff?

You can even finish off the White House this time.

Yeah that’s what happens to absolutely everything in Low Earth Orbit in just a few years. Well, unless you keep pushing them back up like we do to the International Space Station.

These satellites are doing exactly what they’re intended to do. These are actually pretty small satellites overall, there are a lot up there quite a bit larger that deorbit and burn up on re-entry just fine as well.

That’s part of the reason things are sent to LEO specifically, because their orbits naturally degrade and they naturally deorbit themselves without needing any assistance or fuel. It also means if a satellite in LEO fails quicker than planned, is put in an incorrect orbit due to a launch issue, or just failed prematurely, it will fail-safe and deorbit without any assistance.