I honestly think that there’s a chance that the US might not see a repeat Biden-Trump matchup in 2024.
For Biden, what I think might happen is that his health starts failing due to his advanced age. Then, either he decides to resign on advice of his doctor, or he passes away while in office; in either case the presidency passes to Kamala Harris, who becomes president.
As for Trump, what might happen is that the committee investigating the January 6 insurrection decides to indict him on insurrection or similar charges, and makes legal moves to bar him from holding office. He will of course try to fight it, perhaps even bringing it all the way to the US Supreme Court, but ultimately fails, and becomes ineligible to run for presidency in 2024.
The world is about to see a very bad period of massive upheaval against the current order. Blood is going to be shed. There’s going to be revolts. A lot of people are going to die. People are going to tear down the current oppressive order by force.
I really hope it doesn’t come to this but I really don’t have a good feeling about how the world is right now.
Legit I won’t be surprised if people, fed up enough by oppression, late capitalism, (proto-)fascism, and inequality of every stripe, finally decides to take matters into their own hands and starts taking on the oppressive politicians and oligarchs who have enabled and maintained this system.
It’s going to be bloody, and while I can only say those people have it coming for them, I still won’t be liking it at all.
Honestly a lot of other people have came out and backed up the allegations against her. And her actions in response to all of this (making a somewhat weak response video which itself was before that video I linked to was uploaded, privating her subreddit, and ignoring things and continuing on as if nothing’s wrong) is not giving her a good look in all of this either.
@piku I am still willing to give her a chance to redeem or defend herself; the allegations against her are, after all, allegations. But given how much evidence I have seen, and all the people who are willing to back it up, the case against her is definitely quite strong. She must stop pretending nothing’s wrong and address the allegations up front, and either solidly dispel them or sincerely apologise if they are true.
@windowsonwindows if you showed me this back in 2005 or 2006 (during the heyday of desktop customisation) I would have fell in love with it at first sight and would have used it as my Windows XP theme at the first opportunity.
Okay honest opinion but I think Microsoft should just offer the basic Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote) completely free-of-charge and just charge subscription fees for the more advanced cloud features if users want access to those.
OneNote is already free for those who only store their notes in Microsoft’s cloud, and the future unified Outlook app will be free too. Why not throw in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well?
For collaborative editing they can limit it to, say, 2-5 users at a time for the free tier. If users want a higher limit on that they can subscribe to Microsoft 365.
Expanded OneDrive storage for Office files and AI assistive features can also be locked behind a Microsoft 365 subscription as well.
Microsoft should focus their revenue streams on their enterprise customers rather than the consumer market, and use that revenue stream to cross-subsidise their apps for the consumer side.
This could also have a halo effect as well; by making their apps free for consumers, personal users would be more likely to use their apps, helping to establish it as a de facto standard. And once that happens, companies on the enterprise side will be more motivated to choose what the consumers are already using for enterprise purposes as well.
Then again, given Microsoft and their Big Tech Co tendencies, I don’t expect any of this to happen, or to happen with a lot of privacy-invasive strings attached.
That is, unless some large government agency like the US FTC or the EU steps in and goes “no-no” on those practices.
I find it interesting that quite a few of the American YouTubers I watch (or used to watch) have Asian ancestry in them: Nigahiga (aka Ryan Higa) and Jaiden Animations have at least part-Japanese ancestry, and Chubbyemu (Dr. Bernard Hsu) is definitely of Chinese ancestry.
There’s also D’trix (Dominic Sandoval), who was born to Filipino parents.
Most are familiar with Windows 7’s (2009) default wallpaper, Harmony. But, less familiar may be how involved the process of arriving at the final image was. Many ideas were tried, but ultimately rejected for one reason or another. Here are just 4 deemed “not quite right”. 🧐👀
@windowsonwindows I guess the reason why they don’t “look quite right” could be all the visual clutter around the Windows logo, especially when compared to the finalised official one.
Recently someone said #InnerChild work has been helpful, which makes sense to me.
Meanwhile, reading #UniquelyHuman by #BarryPrizant is helpful, but focuses on the issues of and working with children, not sixty something's like me. So I've struggled to see how to apply his insights.
Just realised... I can apply them directly, to my inner child. Bingo! 🥳
Good thing most of the shirts I buy either don’t have physically-noticeable care labels, or just silkscreen-print them on the inside of the fabric instead of on a separate label.
@BasicAppleGuy honestly it’s high time Microsoft and Apple upped their free storage limit for their cloud services. 10GB would be a good starting point, but I would up that to 15GB or even 20GB at the minimum.
Heck, being a long-time user of OneDrive grandfathered under their old (no longer offered) storage bonuses I have 30GB of space on there on a free account, and I can’t see why they can’t extend that to all new users on the free tier as well.
@BasicAppleGuy and as for Apple, they seriously need to offer online backup for at least one mobile device (be it an iPhone or iPad) in addition to their storage limit on their free tier too.
If they want to encourage people to backup their devices to the cloud, then they need to offer that functionality out-of-the-box, with limits by device rather than by storage space, and offering at least a one-device limit on their free tier.
