I think the real reason Google is funding Firefox is because they’re afraid of being targeted in antitrust lawsuits. As long as Firefox is around, they have someone they can point to, to say they’re not a monopoly.

Yea, you have a point there. My cynical streak got the better of me there for a bit.

Do you think Big Pharma wants a cure for cancer? Me neither. That might be the real reason it was voted down.

Logitech stuff is already sort of a subscription based service, since their stuff is designed to fail after around 2 years.

He sure grabbed that flag by the pole.

I think the non-native US population has some unique characteristics due to having been settled by immigrants. No matter how desperate the situation was back home, you still have to be a certain kind of person to leave behind most or all of the poeople you knew, and set out across the ocean. On the positivie side, I think this makes for a resilient and adaptible population. But I think it also makes for a population that is self-centered and lacks empathy for those worse off.

Full Self Demolition

Biden COULD have just not said anything on this one. Instead he doubles down on his support for the genocidal maniac, Netanyahu, that is dragging him down in the polls.

Just wondering why the names of the original authors have been censored?

I think what changed was that he started using ketamine.

The founders went for a “winner takes all” system, and the two party system emerged from that, as an unforseen (but natural) consequence.