He’s salty because he got outbid. Damned eBay snipers.

A bit?

Don’t undersell the oligarch’s image. He’s worked hard to earn.

The only work he’s personally performed these past decades.

Best news this year.

This isn’t true.

It’s a meme that achieved urban legend status.

I maintain that there simply is not enough tax base for these areas to fund themselves but you’ve done a wonderful job moving the goal posts beyond anything the article is stating; they rely on federal funds to operate.

What data do you have to back up corruption?

Keep in mind there are far more small towns than large towns. As a ratio it seems unlikely that small towns are more likely to be corrupt than cities.

The question then is what funds are they using to facilitate this corruption. My guess is federal and state funds because again, they lack the tax base.

Have to shoot off my own foot before I can run faster.

Donor auction, obviously.

The billionaire said I must eat these trays of shit sandwiches so I can have a chance to eat a turkey sandwich later.

Pave it for what purpose with what money? No one wants to park in the middle of no where.

There is a lot of rural land and it is worthless, that’s why they cannot fund themselves.

Good.

Better for the environment anyway.

Rewild the rural landscape back to forests and prairies.

Bold of you to assume they’ll use Java and not some obscure language picked based on the need to pad their resumes.

Look at this red neck hick over here drinking cheap beer who things he’s a god because people tolerate him enough to use him for his tiny island of knowledge around cnc machines.

The only line of work he can maintain because the machine doesn’t judge him for his horrendous stench and ogre like appearance.

Most painful comment so far

Google would still own android and may not be inclined to keep chrome as the default. That is a significant portion of the browser’s user base.

With default search engine agreements being threatened, it may shake out where Google and Firefox agreed to make Firefox the default android browser in exchange for keeping Google their default search engine.

The raise your child to use a device appropriately. Waiting until they are a teenager is far too late to form the appropriate habits around self limiting screen time.

I get that no one wants to blame the device but this is clearly a parenting issue and I say this as someone who has on average raised far more children than anyone in my generation.

But go ahead and lean into the articles that blame on the evil algorithms and the evil corporations. Personal and parental responsibility is hard anx blaming outside influences is easy.

Raise your children or someone else will do it for you.

13? How many of their friends have phones because I would assume their using phones, just not one you gave them and I know from experience other parents do not do the most basic of filtering in their kids devices.

It’s a technology sub and I’ve been around long enough to know this is where the morons of the internet hang out but not everyone is as aware of the pattern.

A modern day equivalent of “we don’t own a tv”

That still wouldn’t account for it. The code to collect this is tiny and the data isn’t stored locally. The whole point is for them to suck it up into their massive dataset.