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I’d argue yes. And it’s still a combination of “exceedingly competent and yes still incompetent in other ways”. The intelligence is here, to paraphrase William Gibson, it’s just unevenly distributed

Sure, years later. They flew the stealth fighter f-117a around in Nevada for 10 years before it became public knowledge. The government is simultaneously capable and incapable. Different groups have different responsibilities, different budgets, different helpers and detractors, etc.

Same thing with Trump. He is simultaneously capable and incapable. He can barely put sentences together, but has like-minded people who are less incompetent, able to push extreme policies through. And there are other groups using him as a tool as well. They don’t care about and will shove him once he’s no longer useful. But he’s very good at taking attention away from other things.

Overall you’re right. But there are some notable exceptions. Arguably Iran/Contra, the CIA spying on all phone calls, the Drug War. But the big one would be The Manhattan Project, since it employed literally hundreds of thousands of people.

Correct. They don’t pay you to code. They pay you to solve problems, which normally ARE solved by code, but they really don’t care how.

Honestly, I just hope Siri transcription for iMessage gets better, and that the music app will actually do a decent job of recognizing the artist/album/thing I want to listen to.

Thanks for that. The 2022 pro has the m2, but that’s a pretty damn big list of things I’d missed.

Thank you!

Thanks for being the voice of sanity, um, SatansMaggotyCumFart

I’ve done it before. No keyboard, no Bluetooth mouse,… it works. Which meanswith either a mouse or a keyboard, it’s probably great. As is, because I was able to actually work on it that way, I would say it definitely passes the sniff test.

Agreed. The demo is stunning. But this is the developer version. Look at the IPhone vs the iPhone 6.

I kind of wish that they had kept the same battery size and had absolutely stupid long battery life. “Charge it once a week“, that type of thing.

Sorta. He did kill at least a couple people. But it’s mostly discounted. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harrelson

Yup, 132 years old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ben

I use Feedly. It’s not Google News, but it works well, the mobile app is great, and it’s not going to be killed on a whim.

…Much though we wish it weren’t.

Genesis wrote a song about it on their album “A Trick of the Tail”

https://www.winespectator.com/articles/is-wine-gluten-free Cool! Glad to be wrong. I thought there was something about gluten in wine, but i think i was conflating it and vegan wine. Thanks for the catch!

Not all wine is gluten free

Martin House Brewing already did an alcoholic version.

He raw doughed it.