[...] two more Chinese swimmers had tested positive [...] but were cleared by Chinese officials

Ah, the old "we've investigated ourselves and found no wrong-doing"

At least try "we hired an outside agency, totally didn't bribe them, and they found no wrong-doing", or better yet "we totally didn't bribe the independent third party hired by someone else, and they found no wrong-doing".

But I suppose I should be glad it wasn't "we totally didn't aim veiled threats at someone's family and livelihood, etc."

A wild Elon appeared!

Twitter has evolved into X!

X attacks Twitter!

X has hurt itself in its confusion!

X has hurt itself in its confusion!

X has hurt itself in its confusion!

"I used to be able to Google like you, but then they changed what Google was and now what I can do doesn't work, and what you have to do seems weird and scary to me."

The way things are going, libraries themselves will be outlawed.

Headline in three months: "Less work getting done than in five-day week."

Government and management will blame lazy workers. Workers will blame government, management and burnout. Truth will be closer to the latter, but a few actually lazy employees and some innocent scapegoats will be fired to preserve the bottom line. Burnout will increase.

But at least the bosses got their bonus this month.

"If you took all the DNA out of a person and laid it end to end, that person would die."

The distance to Jupiter from Earth is but a mere blip though. Even the galaxy is small compared to what's beyond.

Thanks to chaos theory, what we do here can have some effect on the far future of the Universe, at least, for those places within causal reach. How meaningful that effect can be remains to be seen.

But do bear in mind that even, say, a cow farting in a field in France last Tuesday might have as much effect as everything you ever do.

Feeling daring? If you have to buy the software anyway, invoice the government department the price of the software.

Lawful good is asking for trouble. Before they know it, they'll be inundated with e-mails to their personal company address with poorly worded help requests. They'll spend half their time making and updating tickets on the user's behalf that would have been mostly automatic if they'd gone the Lawful Neutral route. They need to insist requests are sent to the main support address. I'm assuming that's tied directly to the ticketing system.

When I was being Lawful slightly-better-than-neutral, I'd create the ticket and then put a paragraph in the reply telling them to please not e-mail me directly in future, because one day I might be unavailable and their e-mail could go unseen for hours or even days.

Repeat offenders would eventually do it at a time when things were busy too, so I'd be concentrating on the tickets and not things to my personal address, so that slight delay often helped it sink in.

Better than a 200 JSON reply containing the 4xx. "Aay it worked!" "oh."

Listen, I don't even like Flatpaks, but at least they're multi-platform and non-proprietary.

But the original poster is probably of the opinion that "pro-consumer" means something that "just works", and if it's a walled garden, so what?

"Why is there barbed wire at the top of that wall?" "Don't worry about it."

I thought they already had Truth Social and considerable chunks of Xitter and Faceberk. What's new or different about this, specifically?

[a cellmate] told prosecutors Williams confessed to the killing and offered details about it.

This is something I found out about recently. They plant an informant as a new cellmate of the person they want a confession from, and give that informant information that only the accused (and law enforcement, of course) would know about the crime, supposedly so that it can be used to wheedle more information. But, when it comes time to tell all, they somehow have all this corroborating information that makes the target look more guilty. How did that happen? /s

Why does the informant do this? Well, they're in prison too. Any deal they can get is a good deal. And it should make us wonder about the veracity of anything a prison snitch says.

Note that this says nothing about the target's actual guilt. They might have done it. This is just a technique used by law enforcement to bolster an otherwise shaky case.

And I'm not even saying a plant is what's happened here. We should still be wary of things said by the prison snitch.