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It is hard to tell if Trump cronies will just sit in their government positions and try to scam money for themselves, or if they will actually go full hog on the (crazy) stuff they are proposing.

Not even pretending; https://x.com/Zheega123/status/1857487076645810514

Ceasefire deal inching toward a conclusion. Key sticking point was a clause giving Israel freedom of action in Lebanon, appears to have been removed but Israel is getting written guarantee from Biden (which Trump is certain to uphold) of support for such action in the future.

US is at the same time the mediator of US-Lebanon talks, while also giving Israel written guarantees that they can ignore the deal reached in these US/Israel-Lebanon talks and just attack Lebanon at any point with full US support.

There has been so little talk about Ukraine in recent months, but every time when I see some news it is about Russia rapidly (compared to previous years) gaining ground. Is there some news or social media channel where I can get a general overview of the situation?

The Paris deal is non-binding anyway and we already passed its lower temperature level of 1.5C. Everyone just ignores it, US is pumping more oil & gas under Biden than ever and just masking CO2 and methane outputs with creative accounting and lying.

US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds

Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal, study finds

I'm sure there is a way to completely disable it with apps like Winaero Tweaker. Luckily, I don't have a CPU with "AI", so I don't have to be annoyed by Copilot.

Didn't he promise he will never back down?

Some companies that are doing well (like AMD) are firing employees. Looks like a lot of CEOs believe there will be an implosion. Too early to tell if there actually will be one.

IIRC, the bill needs 66% votes to pass.

Today is the day of the vote - https://theintercept.com/2024/11/10/trump-nonprofit-tax-exempt-political-enemies/

A parliamentarian is appointed by the majority and their opinions are advisory. So if you want to kill the $15 minimum wage increase, first you have to appoint a parliamentarian who disagrees with the $15 minimum wage and then you have to pretend like they are an expert (and not just a political appointment) and that their opinion is somehow binding. So much circular bullshit "clever politics", just to lose to Trump ANYWAY.

The grid is till locked (hasn't been on Android for ~10 years), but now they allow almost Android-like rearranging of icons and widgets.

So while home screens appear to be no longer limited to four columns of apps and seven rows (including the dock), actually, they still are. The difference is that users can decide where to place apps in that grid, and while Apple guides them, it doesn't force apps into the next available slot in the grid.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/11/how-ios-18-lets-you-neatly-rearrange-app-icons-and-home-screen-widgets

Can't wait for them to start doing terrorist attacks around Europe and planning the next 9/11.