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OMG, I am starting to be too hopeful about the future. Someone tell me something depressing, quick!

We absolutely and desperately need an open and free browser engine, yesterday. Seeing where Google, Apple, and Mozilla are heading makes me fear for the future of the Internet.

It seems like a simple concept that everyone should be able to agree to: if I buy a product from you that does x, y, and z, you don’t get to remove x, y, or z remotely after I’ve made that purchase. How we’ve gotten to a place where companies can simply remove, or paywall, product features without recourse for the customer they essentially bait and switched is beyond me.

We have all the legal and governmental tools required to enable that recourse. We just chose not to any longer at the turn of the century.

The other day, I spent - no exaggeration - 3.5 hours trying to cancel my waste collection service. Calls would go to phone numbers that automatically disconnected after a 20 minute hold, humans would transfer/drop calls after a 40 minute wait.

The previous administration instituted a very basic "one click cancel" rule, but we voted for people that killed that. Last century, companies as powerful as AT&T and Oracle lost bruising fights with government agencies. The same are now toothless.

That sounds extremely well reasoned. It makes no sense for a deputy to decide on their own how they should spend the state's resources, including their own paid time. It would be like a supermarket cashier deciding their time is better spent washing the windshields of cars in the parking lot.

Add the 600 billions in promised investments, that the EU cannot influence (since they are private) and you get the impression that this deal is just a temporary stop-gap from the perspective of the EU. Make outlandish promises that you can't possibly keep, because that makes the USA feel good about herself, but you already know the deal is not going to last long enough for anyone to remember the promises made at the beginning.

The parents had brought their kid to that school. The school was aware the parents were gay. The child chose that school. The school allowed the child to enroll.

I would say, yeah, this was a curve ball coming from an ultra-conservative parish priest, not anything inevitable.

Jinx!

Where I live, US 285 North goes East and crosses CO 470 East, that goes South.

he had a grievance against the NFL over an unsubstantiated claim that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Well, I suppose the behavior supports the claim, as tragic a proof as this is.

That was definitely a red line for me, too. I gave him credit for being incredibly vocal about equal marriage in 2004, way ahead of other politicians, but something seems to have drastically changed and moved him to the right.

In the process of degoogling my life. Email and files are gone, but I use GMaps, still.

Google (still) offers a regular backup of your data to download. You can set it up to run at intervals and just download the entire thing. Includes file (and photos), email, messages, etc. It's great for products you forget you were using, and great for an offline backup.

I am taking this as the official admission by Donald Trump that his name is in fact in the Epstein files, planted or not.