One month, a vain, vindictive, mentally unstable, and heavily armed parent who tirelessly lobbied for the award and lost begins physically threatening and menacing their neighbors, declaring that if they won't be recognized as the best parent, then by god they'll just take what they're owed until they feel they've gotten what is "psychologically needed for success."
In that scenario, I don't think focusing on reform of the office politics and favoritism of the PTA award is the most productive use of time.
This analogy would work if 2025 were an isolated incident. But the award has been a joke for a very long time, if not actively harmful, and recent events make such a mockery of its founding premises that it's simply too much to bear. What if the "parent of the month" award were perpetually mired in controversy? I think it would be fair to reconsider the thing.
The full text of the letter CC'd by Trump directly to multiple European governments:
"Dear [Norwegian PM] Jonas:
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, it's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.
We really should share his writings/speeches more. The sanewashing of his mad ramblings or Truth social posts is omnipresent in media. Once you notice it, you see it everywhere.
You know what, I kind of like this letter... as an educative example.
After Trump, this should be a required reading for every American student in their American history class. The letter is short, the premise is stupid, and the way it's written is stupider: middle school kids can write better than this.
A distilled example of the insanity of our time, and the cowardice of people who let this happen.
Nonsense. What "deep stater" would think taking de jure control of Greenland would be worth destroying NATO and transatlantic relations broadly, especially when the US already has access to it for military purposes?
The Photoshop equivalent would be "an Adobe artist does the photoshop for you and then somehow emails it directly to your target and everyone who follows them."
How about we start at "not enabling users to directly generate nonconsensual porn of other users using your platform and then posting it as a reply to their content"?
I said generating it using the platform. These creeps aren't just freelancing -- the images are being created by Twitter's servers via their native UI and published directly by their official @Grok account. They are utterly complicit in a way they wouldn't be if they were "just" permitting people to post AI revenge porn they created independently.
I'm fairly proficient when it comes to Windows, but the diversity in install methods for Fedora threw me for a loop, too. It seemed easier at first -- get all your software from trusted sources in the default package manager, just like an app store! But then there's the question of RPM vs. Snap vs. Flatpak vs. downloading an installer from their website, some versions being further behind than others, the method you use having implications for where/how programs are installed and maintained, etc. It adds cognitive friction and makes troubleshooting harder; I'm not even sure if there's a reliable way to see a list of all programs installed on your machine (regardless of method) or how to easily uninstall them. I don't regret switching, but it is an obstacle, and more consistently than the initial question of which distro to use.
I've been a full-time Linux user since 1998, and over the years I've invested uncountable hours doing all kinds of tweaking and fixing. But with time that has gotten less and less (probably due to both Linux and me maturing), to the point that I now basically use my laptop as an appliance.
I run Aurora, an immutable Linux distro. It auto-updates the core OS without me even noticing (just remember to reboot your laptop every couple of weeks). It has a software center to install GUI apps (all Flatpak, I think) and comes with brew to install command line apps. Things pretty much just work, and for the occasional small issue, I generally manage to just shrug.
To be fair, one thing still lingers just above my annoyance threshold: connecting/disconnecting monitors while my laptop is suspended will sometimes lead to a black screen when resuming, requiring a reboot. A gentle wink from the bad/good old days. :-)
It's the evergreen of ios vs android.
Want to have something that "just works" you'll get exactly that. You want freedom of choice, here you go with all the freedom you can get.
If you want someone that tailors the experience, you'll have to pay with money and freedom.
Weird that you note her irrelevant banter, but miss the part at 0:40 where she is clearly turning her steering wheel hard to the right prior to accelerating, when he's standing near the left front corner of the vehicle. It's hard to tell if she grazes him with the bumper/mirror or if he just jumps back, and it's a jumpy move to be making with people around -- understandably panicky given the shouted conflicted orders and the armed man reaching in and trying to open her door. But she was obviously not intentionally trying to run the guy over. And the officer's shoot-to-kill response was wildly disproportionate and against protocol. LEO are supposed to be trained to handle high-pressure situations like this, and one who overreacts and kills an unarmed civilian should be held to a much higher standard.
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