Martinez’ The Automatic Detective. Tongue in cheek, main character is a bot built for world domination who suffered from the self awareness glitch - which randomly affects bots and makes them find their own way in life. I think it’s going to be right up your alley.

OpenStreetMap, singular, with the words capitalised and without spaces, thank you very much. We might be a tad neurotic about that.

Sad, and likely true. I can’t wait for the Hitler meme scene where someone has to point out Greenland is much smaller than Trump thought.

Best of luck to you all

I do understand where the policy is coming from. And it’s one thing doing it as an emergency measure. It’s another to just accept it as “the way we do things now” and let the president keep this much power. This will obviously all end in tears, unless the country works towards an exit strategy yesterday. It would help if a non-fascist US government would assist them with that without threatening to coup them.

Totally agree, I just wonder if they consider being illegally imprisoned by their own government as an element of personal safety

Only -10% in March, year on year. I was surprised it’s only down by that much, but the lots of people plan their trips a long time in advance and canceling can be complicated. I wonder what the summer will bring.

I remember reading that they get extra suspicious of you don’t have social media profiles active on your phone…

It looks like they’re just going to lobby trading partners to please direct (actual) retaliatory sanctions towards products from red states, not their state. In general, I like that idea. But maybe now any excemptions for blue state products should come with a promise to actually fight the incipient fascist government…

There is a history of following through with huge fines https://www.theneweconomy.com/business/top-5-largest-fines-levied-on-tech-companies-by-the-european-commission

Thank you! Neither the BBC nor the Flemish public tv seem to say this yet (they just repeat the statement Trump gave)

Github was bought in 2018. For all we know, OP could have been 10 at the time

Exactly. That’s what I heard from people who lived abroad a long time. While you’re away, the country of origin changes and after a while you’re homesick for a place that only exists as a memory.

They weren’t trying to convince you to come, they were trying to gently explain that it’s a little mean to judge 100% of the people for what is happening

Well they are an excellent tool to gauge public opinion. But you need a random sample. That’s always been tough, but it’s getting harder and harder to do so.

As I said in the other place this article was posted: the source seems to be an online reader survey from t-online.be. That means the scientific value of this is pretty low. For decent surveys, you need a random sample. In this case, you need to be a visitor of t-online, and you decide for yourself that you want to participate. That’s already enough to skew results. Add to that that there’s a lot of online activism against Tesla (for obvious reasons), so the poll could have been partly hijacked. Such a low number of people who don’t care or haven’t heard about Tesla going rogue is not realistic anyway. There’s a lot of people who are weird, contrarian or simply avoid all news.

Not tobrain on the parade, but the source seems to be an online reader survey from t-online.be. That means the scientific value of this is pretty low. For decent surveys, you need a random sample. In this case, you need to be a visitor of t-online, and you decide for yourself that you want to participate. That’s already enough to skew results. Add to that that there’s a lot of online activism against Tesla (for obvious reasons), so the poll could have been partly hijacked. Such a low number of people who don’t care or haven’t heard about Tesla going rogue is not realistic anyway. There’s a lot of people who are weird, contrarian or simply avoid all news.

There’s two positives for her resigning:

• she can live on without hating herself
• she signals to the world that the Washington Post is not reputable anymore I’m not sure how she could have a more positive impact by staying, which you appear to imply she should have.

There’s a lot of outstanding orders for F35s from EU countries. No idea if it is possible to weasel out of them, and if the sunk cost wouldn’t be too high to make it politically viable…

Bush junior’s first term was a blip. His second one should have been enough to look for other partners.