They couldn’t even pass a measure to pause hostilities against Iran, there’s no way they will have the 2/3 senate vote needed to remove him from office. I doubt it even has the 50% house vote to advance the impeachment process to that stage.

The majority of American politicians in office approve of Trump and what he’s doing. Maybe after some seats shuffle in the midterms, which is already overly optimistic, there might be margins just slim enough to convince a handful of senators to cross the aisle and vote Trump out of office. But even then, I wouldn’t hold out much hope of that happening. MAGA voters remain committed to the cult, and Republican incumbents want to keep those votes to stay in office.

The Trump admin doesn’t actually care where someone is from, they just get sent to a hole somewhere in El Salvador or South Sudan.

You’d think you’d want it recommending porn in that case to use later as blackmail.

And yet the “free” market can’t be trusted to correct itself and fill the gaps if we allow a giant megacorp to fall.

Hah, well your username may be more relevant than mine, at least!

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

The US is full of many good people who feel they can do nothing.

I had that sort of thought myself not long ago. If Donald Trump just showed up in front of me out of the blue one day, would I try to kill him?

I don’t consider myself a radical or revolutionary. I’m not gunning to be the next big-name presidential assassin to appear in the history books. I’m just a normal, everyday person trying to get by, one day at a time.

But I think I would. I dunno. Maybe a lot of other normal people feel the same way.

A Microsoft-oriented news outlet.

Think similar to MacRumors/9to5Mac/AppleInsider for Apple.

I think it probably doesn’t matter what he wants, it only matters that the data exists at all. If the owner is not giving permission, that’s one thing. But I’m inclined to believe that those American 3-letter agencies aren’t the sort to ask permission.

All it takes is one disgruntled systems engineer who thinks they don’t get paid enough. An agency comes knocking with a sizable offer of cash, and they’ll get the backdoor they want.

E2E encrypted messages in Matrix contain more user metadata than alternatives like SimpleX, nothing scary but a MitM is able to see origin points, destinations, and times of messages. Server to server, if you’re using E2E encryption, it relies on trust that the other server is not compromised.

And it seems Matrix.org is not the best at security disclosures: https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/#matrix-response

Nothing federated is private, mind. Even with E2EE on in private rooms for specific messages, Matrix still relies on a constant information feed during use that can be used to deduce who is messaging whom and when, even if the content of the message itself is encrypted.

This is why it’s important to seed your online activity with deliberate false identifiers. That way, no one with bad intentions will learn that I work for the ICE office in Santa Fe, and always attend church every Sunday (when football isn’t on, of course).

I don’t believe that it was explicitly stated that refunds had to happen, but the avoidance of that possibility was a motivation of the dissent.

In his dissent, Kavanaugh wrote that “the refund process is likely to be a mess”, which operates under the assumption that refunds remain on the table now that Trump’s tariffs were ruled unconstitutional.

I’m guessing it will come down to individual lawsuits by the affected parties against the Trump administration to make the specific case that refunds are needed and justified. If a few succeed, that sets the precedent for more. At that point, the government may decide to simply set up a refund program to reimburse folks and try to save some money by not challenging every claim in court.

Some was context pulled from this NPR article:

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/21/g-s1-110987/supreme-court-tariffs-refunds

Ancient Chinese emperors used to drink mercury to achieve immortality, too. 2000 years of history couldn’t be wrong.

The article could have led with the addition that she is a Republican politician and left readers to fill in the blanks themselves.

I can’t be arsed to keep up with changing the config of the browser I didn’t choose every time the device updates with new admin-defined settings. That’s all.

On my personal device I still use Google right now for consistency/because change is hard, but I set the default behavior in Firefox to exclude AI results.

I’d just prefer to use/support a search engine that abstains from AI entirely, regardless of whether or not you can turn it off. I don’t want to be a happy customer of companies that still try to weasel that stuff in, because they won’t stop at a toggle. They never do.

Yeah but you can do the same with Google as well (just can’t be arsed to change the search settings on my work PC), it’s the principle of the thing.

That’d be my guess.

I have never once went out of my way to use Gemini, for example, but having it appear in every other Google search with some lying bullshit to spread is probably driving up their engagement numbers.

I really should stop using Google. But can’t use DDG either because they just use Bing and their own AI service as well, and so does Kagi.

Yes sir, I have it on good faith that this democratic senator received a bribe of emotional gratification when the Canadian delegate wished her a nice day, to which she replied “You too”, which is clearly indicative of some sort of illegal quid pro quo relationship.

For some clarity for those out there only reading headlines, LA in this case is the city (Los Angeles) not the state (Louisiana).