They found a new way to steal from the public. New in that no one cared so little about public perception as to do this outright.

No one could have seen this coming. /s

The real issue is getting money back for consumers who paid these exorbitant taxes. It won’t be solved. If it is, it’ll land on a future admin. They found the cheatcode.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Montgomery County District Attorney all initiated criminal investigations of the matter, which they combined and then closed because they did not find evidence “that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that anyone involved had criminal intent”.

If I don’t have intent to commit a crime but I break the law, it’s not an excuse that a cop or judge will buy. Holy fuck.

I landed a 666666 on an internal generative thing a few months ago at my job. I felt like I’d won a tiny lottery.

Pay for independently-developed software if you care about it continuing to exist. Steal from corporations all you want. But support independent devs (and small teams) to make sure they can keep maintaining the tools you love and rely on. It’s the only way to not get swallowed by the big dogs.

Fight fight fight!

We can have a UFC match at the white house. It’ll be awesome. Wait…

It subsequently emerged the inquiry was sealed by a court order, theoretically constraining Patel from publicly disclosing it.

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Patel has previously invoked court orders sealing grand jury testimony as justification for the FBI’s inability to release many of its files on Jeffrey Epstein.

There’s no contradiction here. Everyone should move along.

And contributing money to shitbags allows them to keep funding terrible values. See Musk.

going to war with people who are more liberal leaning than them

They’re going to war with people who are more progressive than them.

Maybe it is. I don’t know. But I’ve read a lot of comments suggesting that Windows burns RAM harder than MacOS and Linux.

I’m so glad my work is buying laptops with 32GB of RAM. Finally, we’re in the future. (I think true nerds need more, but these are office people using Word and Outlook. It’s glorious.)

Politicians who don’t understand technology (and some that do) will continue advocating for a break in encryption “so they can catch the bad guys.”

No, you fuck. Either it’s protected or it’s not. I’ve just been listening to the latest podcast from 404 Media (you should check them out; print and audio). One of their primary stories is about cops accessing Flock cameras to stalk their ex-partners. AUTHORITY NEEDS LIMITS.

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

He’s clearly losing it, but this is also clearly propaganda from a country engaged in a war. Anyone who takes this seriously is a fool. Trump is a vacant turnip, but we can asses that for ourselves. Don’t be stupid. Of course they will say anything they can to smear him. They don’t need to. He’s already covered in shit.

Let’s hope his derangement leads to a direct attack on israel when they refuse to honor whatever peace deal we make to pretend we weren’t pantsed by Iran.