I think it should be hyphenated… Trump-Epstein Files. That more indicates a connection between the two while Trump/Epstein makes them seem more separated.

It would probably be fine if there was someone competent in Whitehouse to manage the fallout.

But since there isn’t, you are very likely correct.

Personally I think they shouldn’t be redesigning any of the aliens. That image of the “Gorn” would be something that could be cool… if it were a new alien species.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a news organization to do their jobs and have basic journalistic standards. And when they fail to do so, there’s no reason to to share their content when there’s articles available on the same subject from news organizations that do have journalistic standards. We’re in an era of misinformation and distinformation and articles like the postmedia one just promotes a general ignorance of media literacy. People think it’s normal for news articles to not indicate where they’re getting their information from and think discrepancies between media sources is due to political bias. If we demand all media sources indicate something about their sources then the scammy click bait crap not doing so will be more likely to trigger alarm bells for not doing any due diligence.

Postmedia’s laziness is just normalizing the degradation of journalistic standards and that creates distrust in media. Their unwillingness to pay real journalists or pay licensing fees to wire services like Reuters (who will pay real journalists) is siphoning off scarce funds away from journalism. They’re a cancer on news journalism.

Yeah I’m getting real dot com bubble vibes from all of this.

Only because after 15 years the AIs will have finished exterminating the human race.

Is CBS the most conservative friendly legacy media that’s not Fox? Is that why this is going through?

You might find the answer to these questions by reading the article.

The Taliban didn’t have a military that could stop the US either. How did that work out again?

The US could invade any country on Earth easily. Put up a big “Mission Accomplished” banner and all that.

The occupation that follows an invasion? That’s something the US isn’t all that good at. The US couldn’t hold Afghanistan. But with Afghanistan Americans could run home with their tail between their legs.

What your plan for withdrawing from a war on the North American continent?

Swiss politicians also called Thursday for cancelling that country’s F-35 purchase after Trump hit their country with 39 per cent tariffs.

You don’t think the grammar on that sentence is insane? It’s either AI slop or a human that’s really bad at writing.

Also it’s very important to give sources for where a news organization is getting information from. Which Swiss politicians?

Postmedia is saying just “Canadian military” which suggests it’s official, while Reuters (a real news source) indicates it’s “sources familiar with the matter” which indicates it’s not official yet.

The Reuters story was actually posted a couple days ago (by me, in fact!) and as far as I remember, it didn’t include the additional context of other countries rejecting the deals, or the info about one of the European companies offering to let Canada build their jets here.

According to Reuters, the article was published on Aug 7 and last updated on Aug 7. A good news organization would indicate what was changed at the end of the article if they changed something, and there’s nothing there indicating the article changed. The Postmedia article was published Aug 8 and updated “1 day ago” but don’t indicate what they changed because it’s Postmedia and they’re not real journalists.

Sorry if I’m sounding mean, just think it’s important to recognize the indicators of quality journalism when choosing news sources since there’s so much misinformation and disinformation out there. For example this is a pretty good article about what the “Swiss politicians also called Thursday” is about: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politicians-push-to-cancel-f-35-fighter-jet-deal-after-us-tariffs/89796985 Sources are indicated, and the article was edited after publishing and it’s noted what was changed. This can be trusted because if Bloomberg lied in their quoting of the named people there would be liability issues for them. “Sources familiar” is something I know not to trust 100% but Reuters has a good reputation so there’s a high probability it’s true, though not as high as it would be if they could name their sources.

Compare these to the postmedia article, and it’s obvious the postmedia article it complete garbage. It’s just “Somebody said something in Switzerland and the military likes the F-35 and stuff.” They’re cheaping out because while they could license the Reuters article and put it on their page, instead they reworded it poorly to save some money.

Essentially what happened, though they aren’t paper documents:

Prosecutors took “appropriate measures” both times, forwarding the confidential health records to the judge and deleting their own copy, the lead assistant district attorney, Joel Seidemann, wrote in revealing what he described as a double-snafu on Friday.

Yeah there’s a category on a streaming service I use for 25 year old movies. I saw Fight Club was in that category. “Huh, they put it in the wrong category… wait… well shit!”

This is unwise. Best case is people don’t laugh at a lame variation of a very old joke, worst case is you lose your job for expressing intolerance of people’s religion and/or for being demeaning towards women. Middle case is you get a lecture by HR.

Unless your workplace is a comedy club, maybe stick to dad jokes. You’re being paid to work, not be an edgy comedian. And your co-workers are most certainly not being paid to laugh at your jokes.

If your workplace was a comedy club, the audience is still not being paid to laugh at your jokes and a big part of your job would be to read the room.

Ah ok… OP probably should link to the Reuters story instead of the shit postmedia summary of the story which feels like AI slop. The Reuters story at least tells us it’s coming from “sources familiar with the matter”.

Yes… and her arch nemesis is Poppy Cock.

That’s when the share values of private prison companies go to the moon.

Might’ve been the muffin or it might’ve been the Fentanyl Friday team building exercise. We’ll never know!

If I was the leader of any other country I would have already started/redoubled efforts planning on how to engage with the US as an enemy years ago. Not ‘hur durr they’re already an enemy cuz Trump dumb’, I mean drones at your doorstep your children weap at sunshine enemy.

Yeah… that’s actually happening. It just doesn’t make sense to be super noisy about it at the moment. Anyone in Canada that has any capability to manufacture drones are getting military procurement contracts approved ridiculously fast right now. Like those kinds of things usually take years to get through the red tape, but now it’s like weeks to go from testing to procurement.

At the moment it’s only a trade war, and it would be best if that’s as far as it goes. But if Trump takes things further… yeah, there will be drones at his doorstep. I wonder what something like this could do to Mar a lago? https://youtu.be/olYVvx8TfGk

There was a push for an international minimum tax rate from some guy. But that guy was old and so people decided to replace that old guy with an old guy that’s a billionaire, but because he’s crazy he doesn’t seem as old I guess. But anyway, it’s highly doubtful something like that will happen any time soon.

I like it for desktop, but for me XFCE is all I need. I figure I want to mostly focus on the application I’m using not the Window Manager. I click the icon, application opens and I do stuff, and occassionally run apt update && apt upgrade and kinda forget the OS is even there.

With games I tend to have more issues with older games becoming broken after awhile than with new games not working because the OS is old. Only problems I’ve had with new games is because I had a computer that was >10 years old and eventually the hardware couldn’t run new games anymore. But then I mostly play strategy games and base builder games, so maybe that’s why I don’t have a lot of issues there.

Debian is the best OS for people that don’t want to think about the OS.