The US was absolutely the world leader after WW2. The entire system for global trade and finance has been designed by and around the US, and everybody played ball.

Obviously “leader of the free world” should come with some annotations about what they mean with “freedom”, and the US has absolutely been complicit in overthrowing some democracies and supporting dictatorships, but it’s indisputable that they’ve had a position of leadership among free and democratic countries; the US did often set the standard, and got what they wanted.

And for a long time, the things they wanted weren’t always just for the good of the US, but good for many countries and possibly the world, at least from some perspective. The US has pressured many other colonial powers to release their colonies, for example.

Of course they were also often wrong, and often disastrously so, but that rarely hurt their position of leadership. Until now. Actually until Bush started the Iraq war; that was the first real dent in US credibility. Obama did a lot to repair it, and then Trump flushed it down the toilet.

From what I know, those agents can be absolutely fantastic as long as they run under strict guidance of a senior developer who really knows how to use them. Fully autonomous agents sound like a terrible idea.

Ooh! I need to look that up.

I recently wanted to send a file from Linux to an old tablet over Bluetooth. Can’t be done apparently. I can send it to my phone, a windows laptop can send it to the tablet, but my Linux PC apparently can’t. Still baffled about it.

Turns out they’re not quite corrupt enough for his taste.

I’m actually fine with them stopping that one. Leave it to the kid to decide.

D is the correct answer, but do you trust a game show to know that?

My son taught himself English by setting Minecraft to English. Once he mastered that, he set it to Pirate.

The American obsession with bathroom segregation is weird. In other countries, women will sometimes use the men’s bathroom when there’s a long line in front of the women’s and not the men’s. Fathers needing to change a diaper on their kid sometimes use the baby changing station in the women’s bathroom if that’s where it’s located (though that’s increasingly being fixed).

This is not something that requires excessive legislation if you can avoid obsessing over other people’s genitals.

The first is fine. The ending is great, some other parts are bad. Some are very questionable. On the whole, I enjoyed it.

The Tates sell their “be a man” coaching package

As if he’d know how.

SO used to be really good in the past, but these days when I’m looking for an answer to a problem, I only unanswered closed questions.

Congestion is literally made out of cars. Without cars, there would be no congestion.

Ah, is that the way to address that? I don’t run into incorrect error highlighting often, and it’s mostly great, but when it gets it wrong, it can be very stubborn about it.

Of course misogyny played a role. A million factors played a role, but most of those she couldn’t control. How she campaigns is something she could control, and that’s something she fucked up.

Of course not. That big government warehouse with all the boxes. I’m sure “museum” is a nickname they use for it.

I was so excited after she picked Tim Walz. It was starting to look like the most progressive ticket in decades, she was ahead in the polls, and then she turned around and started campaigning with Republicans and CEOs. Total betrayal.

And yeah, she disappeared. I hear more from Biden and Obama than from her.

Same with Indiana Jones. Maybe he’s slightly less terrible about it than Lara Croft, but the fact that he cares only about that golden idol and not about the entire temple complex around it with apparently still active traps, makes him a terrible archaeologist.

They’re both very effective adventurers and tomb robbers, though. And at least Lara Croft doesn’t pretend to be any better than that.

Does it still run 30 year old apps? I was under the impression that a lot of DOS and Windows software from the 1990s ran better under Wine than on Windows.

That’s always been his strategy: keep repeating the lie until it becomes true.