jonne

You have to keep in mind that ever since Elon took over Twitter, nobody's left that actually understands how it works, so whenever they implement a change they do it in the most hamfisted way possible, usually in the presentation layer.

Disabling translation was just the easiest way to do this, as banning Israeli accounts for their actual hate speech was going to get the ADL on Elons ass.

If it's only 50mW it seems like it wouldn't be worth whatever the extra cost is to roll this out for anything except super niche applications. Even off grid you're probably just better off saving solar in a battery or putting up a small windmill.

The SNAP system would probably be even cheaper if anyone could just apply for a card no questions asked. It's a farm subsidy anyway, so just make it 'the government will pay a chunk of your grocery bill so nobody has to go hungry'.

I'm guessing someone is mad they're not getting a cut.

No, those aren't a thing where I live thankfully, although that would probably cause me to switch petrol stations if they started doing this (or finally buy an electric car so I can have the ads on a giant screen while I'm driving /s).

At least it's static. They could've done a constant animation for maximal annoyance while you're trying to focus on cutting onions.

That's weird, because the COVID checks were insanely popular and just giving everyone a $2000 check with his name on it would be great politics. I guess it's good they're doing it differently.

It took 3 grand juries to even be able to bring the case, it was always going to end in acquittal. Sure, it's technically assault, but nobody was going to convict for that.

Or use canned food.

I was kind of hoping the defence would produce a receipt that confirmed it was a BLT without onions, hence proving the agent committed perjury.

I feel like that stuff might be horrifying to most, it's exactly what his base wanted. I guess it might peel off the ones that just believed his economic 'message'.

I mean, when he was on the ballot last time he did win. He has a way of drawing out his voters that luckily doesn't easily transfer to other Republicans.