My current expectation is even weirder, actually. I think the most likely outcome at the moment is for Trump to "switch sides" and start supporting Iran against Israel. Not in the sense of literally bombing Israel, but in the sense of bullying Israel to give concessions to Iran.

Trump's philosophy on life is very simple: there are winners and there are losers. Right now Iran is a winner. He got suckered by a loser into siding with them against a winner, and now he's mad. I could see him wanting to be on the winning side and punishing the ones who made him look like a loser.

As I say, very weird timeline.

It's such a weird timeline where I can say "at least Trump surrendered when it became clear his stupid war was lost."

And ever since I got a forklift my arm strength has gone down.

You didn't read the article or choose whether to post it?

The discussion on the dispute seems pretty strongly tilted in the "keep" direction.

Going to be interesting to see the United States put Wikipedia under export control as a munition.

The warning came as the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, had said Israel “will maintain the security zone in south Lebanon as long as our security needs require it”

Got to wonder if there's some 5D chess going on here. "Hey, Trump, the treaty said you and your allies had to withdraw from Lebanon." "Yeah, well, we're ditching Israel as allies then. So there."

Yeah, as someone who lives in a neighborhood that's currently being threatened with infill redevelopment it's not uplifting news. The neighborhood was not designed with car-free or high-density living in mind, public transit access is poor and shops are not nearby. So if a house gets replaced with an eight-family dwelling without garage space that means eight cars parking on the street. There's simply not enough street available for everyone to do that.

I'm all for low-income housing and less reliance on cars, but it's important to account for the full context of the situation instead of ramming through partial solutions that only make things worse. That way you turn people against stuff. In my city I've seen half-assed initiatives for bike lanes and reducing single-use plastic that ended up intensely unpopular and I suspect harmed those things more in the long run.

This isn't about stopping AI music, it's about controlling it. The big copyright cartels like the RIAA would love to continue controlling it and now people are cheering them on.

What, have a nuanced view? Impossible, must be a troll.

You're absolutely right, electric screen! I shall do as you say.

I think the most likely explanation is incompetence and equipment failure. These things are being driven through the roof by the pressures of the war with Ukraine, though, so it's still indirectly something Ukraine is provoking. Much like all those officials falling out of windows.

I was told we would always be able to tell.