It gets worse:

Instead of seeking expert advice on how to retrieve the weapon, one officer decided to activate the emergency shutdown button.

“This action caused the MRI’s magnet to rapidly lose superconductivity, leading to the evaporation of approximately 2,000 liters of helium gas and resulting in extensive damage to the MRI machine,” the suit said.

The officer then retrieved his gun, but left a magazine full of bullets on the floor of the MRI office, the suit says.

The USA won’t allow it; it will facilitate it.

Biden didn’t seem to mention that Israel has conducted more than a thousand air strikes on Lebanon in two days, killing many hundreds, possibly thousands by now:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd5x1mnj2yo

Are all of those thousand air strikes “justice”?

Some Republicans are literally working for Russia; the rest just love Putin and the reactionary religious conservatism and oppression of minorities he stands for. In either case they effectively work for Russia.

And the law forbidding promotion of the “childless lifestyle” achieves oppression of women, nonreligious people and LGBTQ+ people all in one go. Republicans will certainly want to do something similar.

That’ll give Netanyahu the perfect excuse to continue slaughtering thousands of civilians.

This article is from 2018.

That sounds like Trump accepts Putin’s line that this war was the fault of Ukraine and NATO.

And I specifically mentioned the USA because that’s the country where OpenAI operates and where the events in the article take place, so if someone asks why it’s so easy for OpenAI to go from being a nonprofit to a for-profit company (this was the issue I was responding to, not some general question about whether money has influence around the world), it’s the laws of the USA that are relevant, not the laws of other countries.

It all gets publicity, and he won in 2016 on the back of months of free outrage publicity. All the time our attention is on him, it’s not on his opponent.

I don’t see where I said that.

USA tho

Ah, but one asshole gets very rich in the process, so all is well in the world.

They’re even doing an eager supervillain hand rub in the photo, delighting in the pain they’re about to inflict.

Was their office under a rock somewhere? How had none of them stumbled upon what every other programmer in the world does?

Amazing. They’ve tried asking Israel nicely while sending them hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons, and still Israel doesn’t stop? Better ask again while affirming unconditional support for Israel, coming down hard on anyone who criticizes it, and sending more bombs and missiles for them to use. Surely that will do the trick.

Most organizations will avoid patching due to the downtime alone, instead using other mitigations to avoid exploitation.

If you can’t patch because of downtime, maybe you are cheaping out too much on redundancy?

There isn’t a comparable position in the USA. But corruption has the same whiff everywhere. That said, this example seems relatively minor and harmless.

For our American friends, this is as though the President’s son used an apartment lent to him by a Senator (of the same party as the President, no less).

Senators are elected, aren’t they? Peers are given honours by the monarch, usually after a recommendation from the Prime Minister, and can sit in the House of Lords, unelected, and make decisions about legislation. A Labour peer is just a peer recommended to the monarch by a Labour PM. So Lord Alli is a businessman who received favours from the Labour Party, giving him unelected political influence, and he’s giving favours to a Labour PM in return.

Seems quite different to me.

The problem is that Librewolf’s continued existence depends on Firefox continuing to exist. And while I like Vivaldi (but not its closed-sourceness), if all browsers end up being Chromium-based, Google still has an effective monopoly on web standards.

It’s just about marketing. People don’t know about what they don’t hear about, and the wealthier companies can make sure people hear about them. There’s no budget for that with regular Fediverse sites.