It could actually be a good thing, since it opens up the possibility of unsnoopable channels of communication, using encryption that would be disrupted by any attempt to intercept it.

Canadian mining companies are some of the most ruthless, oppressive and damaging organizations in the world. It’s not surprising that they’re entirely willing to work with the fascists.

Cruelty and death to poor people and more pandemics for everyone! The American way.

Still not sure whether OP is Pete Hegseth.

The old Republican projection at work again.

This is some amazing satire. What a great find.

I doubt the courts would be respected even if they ruled against it. Trump is currently ignoring the courts to have people illegally kidnapped and deported to foreign prisons, with no due process, some of them to be enslaved there for life:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-to-know-about-the-el-salvador-mega-prison-where-trump-sent-hundreds-of-immigrants

From that article:

CECOT prisoners do not receive visits and are never allowed outdoors. The prison does not offer workshops or educational programs to prepare them to return to society after their sentences. … Bukele’s justice minister has said that those held at CECOT would never return to their communities.

The Trump administration has not identified the migrants deported, provided any evidence they are in fact members of Tren de Aragua or that they committed any crimes in the U.S.

There’s not really anything wrong with being incompetent, so long as you have the humility to admit it and learn from people who know better, and try not to cause harm. That’s not Musk’s minions though.

“Kellogg is a former American general, too close to Ukraine. Not our kind of person, not of the caliber we are looking for,” NBC News quoted an anonymous senior Russian official as saying.

Only Putin-sycophants are allowed. Someone will be having a word with Krasnov about this.

Here’s a review of the book in the NYT that gives a taste of some of the awfulness:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html

https://archive.is/Gq7O8

Are there any countries that aren’t being horribly mean to the poor helpless USA, according to Trump? Apart from Russia of course.

Mozilla has one too. And Fastmail. You can invent a different email address for every site, then block the ones that get spammed.

I think many people figured it out in 1987 when he went to Moscow and then ran full-page newspaper ads demanding the USA turn on its allies.

When a Young Trump Went to Russia

The only question is whether he knows he’s a Russian asset. Trump may be working for them without realizing it. All Putin would have to do is convince him he was just giving him advice, one wise ruler to another, because Trump is special and brilliant, and provide a few incentives. Trump would believe that taking the advice was all his own brilliant idea.

No.

This isn’t a story about that. This is a story about someone being attacked because someone misidentified her as a Christian. It doesn’t even say whether she was religious at all.

It’s regrettable that Obsidian isn’t open source. But the nice thing about it is that its data store is just a bunch of markdown files in a folder structure, and very easily migrated to any other application. They may have the code but they don’t take the data hostage like a lot of commercial software does.

Yes, and I’ve heard people say “It’ll be OK; the strain that goes pandemic won’t be as lethal as the current strains.” There’s some truth in this, that extremely deadly viruses will tend to burn themselves out by killing their hosts so not spread so widely. So perhaps bird flu transmitted from person to person would not sustain the extremely high death rates this type of flu has shown in people in the past. But as the 1918 flu and even the COVID pandemic show, there’s a lot of wiggle room for a virus between utterly deadly and utterly harmless, and even something that’s far from the worst can still go pandemic and cause huge amounts of death, disruption and misery.

What are the chances the hard drive would still be readable, I wonder?

That’s their problem

Unfortunately, with how pandemics work, it would be everyone’s problem.