Skills mate, you got them. Nice one.

Absolutely , $100 million is a whole ton of money. It’s not a good excuse, but maybe it is spent in the state’s economy?… don’t make it ok but at least I hope it helped keep some newspapers alive or something.

It might be an error on my part actually or of their payment system. My attempt to purchase actually didn’t work (connection dropped while attempting to buy) so that might have been why, I was trying to connect while not having an active account. (My guess, no error info was given) FYI the reason I want to try and this vpn looks interesting, is they have an obfuscation layer added to wireguard, which I find think I’ve seen before. I’ll try it again when have time in a couple days, their support got back to me to fix the payment.

I’ve tried both their settings and can’t get it to connect, I’ll try from desktop tomorrow.

Never heard of it, I’ll try it and let you know. (I’m always on the hunt for good options as fallbacks and for research for clients)

I use both Mullvad and Astrill in China. A lot of VPNs don’t work here so it’s a feather in the cap for these that do.

Oh ha is that what that is, I always thought it was some bug or quirk.

Can’t wait to visit.

Your logic is valid for a small business - yes a SME doesn’t need to create their own messaging app, but this is the US government, they have the resources and need for their own. Further, commercial products controlled by outsiders can be compromised, and for state level targets it’s an issue to not control the communication through its whole journey.

Oh the irony.

Oh I’ve been there!

I love Robert Reich, I’ve only known about him this past year and wish I’d known about him longer. Such a wise voice.

Oh brilliant, thank you for the tip!

I recommend over the ear, noise reduction headphones to drown out the cries. Also keep your eyes high up towards the horizon, and keep moving.

Sir, this is a Lemmys.

Biden did tons wrong I disagree with and will give him crap for every bit of it. But riding around in a Ford to celebrate new EV models being produced wouldn’t make it any higher than maybe #500 on the list.

Then comparing Trump to Biden, nothing Biden has done, with the exception of not dropping out from a second term run, comes close to Trump’s bullshit.

I imagine many MAGA diehards have been bled broke already buying all of Trump’s scam items from watches, sneakers, bibles, meme coins and whatnot.

Yeah, it was valued at more than multiple handfuls of other car companies combined - like all other US car companies combined, for example, ridiculous. Many investors have pointed out it’s an overvalued meme stock for years, that it’s just banking on Musk pulling more rabbits out of hats.

It wasn’t as big of deal because Biden isn’t super closely related to Ford in particular like Trump is with Musk and by extension Tesla.

Actually not that hairy, you see the shirtless pic? He’s quite smooth, like a beluga whale.