I'm pissed that Biden isn't calling their bluff and breaking a ton of laws right now.

Comic books. And those weird bathroom readers.

It's a digital image of a painting!

(Six, if you fold the pages back.)

I know what the headline actually means but i'm choosing to believe that donny just found out about calendars.

Starting anything from scratch is a huge risk these days. At best you'll have something like the python 2 -> 3 ~~rewrite~~ overhaul (leaving scraps of legacy code all over the place), at worst you'll have something like gnome/kde (where the community schisms rather than adopting a new standard). I would say that most of the time, there are only two ways to get a new standard to reach mass adoption.

1. Retrofit everything. Extend old APIs where possible. Build your new layer on top of https, or javascript, or ascii, or something else that already has widespread adoption. Make a clear upgrade path for old users, but maintain compatibility for as long as possible.

2. Buy 99% of the market and declare yourself king (cough cough chromium).

Firefox had tab grouping first. Before Chrome. And then it broke support for it when they did the add-ons overhaul. I'm surprised bringing it back wasn't a high priority...

This isn't a new problem, Reddit was the same way. As a site grows, it gets harder to moderate, and that means more people trolling for attention. Go to your user settings and change the default view from "All" to "Subscribed", and you'll have more control over your home page.

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This is like asking "isn't wikipedia full of false information?"

And, yes! There are lots of mistakes in wikipedia. But when they're found, they can be fixed. That's the same deal with open source software.

Anyone else think a lot of conservatives feel this way?

I think we live in an age where advertisements are literally gaslighting, and also where large portions of the population are bombarded with advertisements on a daily basis. I'm not surprised if people's grip on reality gets a little wobbly, resisting all that propaganda is a lot of effort.

I remember in college we took a course on economic efficiency and the short takeaway is "the free market is extremely efficient, but only when the competing parties start with equal resources. the more inequal the starting position, the less efficient the market becomes." and to my mind that suggests that we should enforce some sort of "rubber-banding" effect so that a company needs to keep competing or else it will "drift" back to the mean over time. Something like aggressive taxes on the uber-rich and comprehensive welfare for the poor, y'know? Capitalism but with safety guards would be pretty cool.