One of the federal [emphasis mine] charges against Mangione, murder through use of a firearm, makes him eligible for the death penalty if convicted.

Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state charges.

In summary, it claims that Google falsely told publishers that adopting AMP would enhance load times, even though the company’s employees knew that it only improved the “median of performance” and actually loaded slower than some speed optimization techniques publishers had been using. It alleges that AMP pages brought 40% less revenue to publishers. The complaint states that AMP’s speed benefits “were also at least partly a result of Google’s throttling. Google throttles the load time of non-AMP ads by giving them artificial one-second delays in order to give Google AMP a ‘nice comparative boost.‘”

The main reason so many news sites adopted AMP is because it was a requirement from Google for articles to qualify for their Top Stories. As soon as that requirement was removed the number of non-AMP links spiked and has been rising ever since.

Fuck Google.

https://wptavern.com/amp-has-irreparably-damaged-publishers-trust-in-google-led-initiatives

It’s not the profession that’s the problem, but there is evidence that problem people gravitate to such professions where they have that position of power.

Tbf that is exactly what the Republicans want

As great as reinventing the English language sounds, it’s not realistically going to happen in a meaningful way, and making small regional changes (like the differences in the spelling of some words) is just confusing and annoying to everyone who isn’t familiar with it or with English in general.

With your example of the letter C, you’d need some alternative way to write the “ch” sound (which is sometimes pronounced as “sh”, depending on it’s usage) if you got rid of that letter.

It’s an ugly, messy, and confusing language. Popularising arbitrary changes like the ones Webster included in his dictionary (centre vs center, for example) serves no benefit to anyone - it just creates yet another variant of an ugly, messy, and confusing language.

Remind me again how you pronounce “herbs” or “aunt” over there

I also try not to judge people simply for being religious, but it’s pretty damn hard when it’s the direct cause of their affirmative stance on things like anti-vax, anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-science etc.

Of course there are people with those stances who aren’t religious at all too, but they do seem to be in the minority.

In addition to what others have said, cut back on the sugar.

That is literally what happens in US news when the subject involves a criminal offence or could be considered defamation.

From a legal point of view it hasn’t been tried in a court of law, which is why words like “apparently” and “allegedly” are used.