I certainly wouldn’t rule it out. I doubt we’ll ever know for sure.

You’re right - my color vision let me down there. That’s good news.

Seymour Hersh may not always get things right. He seems to have been mistaken about the Syrian gas attack, for example:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/06/25/will-get-fooled-seymour-hersh-welt-khan-sheikhoun-chemical-attack/

And his Nord Stream story is hard to corroborate given its dependence on an anonymous source:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/02/10/hersh-nord-stream-sabotage/

This isn’t to say he’s wrong, but since there is just one anonymous source we don’t really know he’s right either.

That chart forecasts a consistent large use of coal and a rapid increase in power from oil after 2030. China’s progress in renewable energy sources is good news, but these forecasts for coal and oil don’t seem to be.

Am I likely to be annoyed about where the fiber comes into the house?

That one depends on the company installing it. When I got it installed they asked me exactly where I wanted the fiber to terminate and ran it through the house to an outlet under my desk. So let them know and they might put it where you need it.

As for the router, I recommend buying a mini PC with at least 2 Ethernet ports and 4GB of RAM and running OPNsense. It’s great and will give you all the control you need. Or you can repurpose any old PC you have lying around and just add some Ethernet ports on a PCIE card.

Germans under the Nazis mostly went about their lives like everything was fine until quite late in the war when it became impossible to do so. By that time Hitler had been in power for more than a decade, terrorized Europe, run the Holocaust, and started a world war. There’s no guarantee that most Americans will notice what’s happening even after they start living under a fascist dictatorship. America is almost Russian in the way the general population simply avoids politics and considers it not their problem, even as they suffer directly as a result of their leaders’ politics. In that sense they’re pretty well primed to live under a dictator already.

Unfortunately we won’t get proper socialists after that, we’ll get fascists.

I’ve pulled Linux boot drives out of one machine to stick them in a very different machine (e.g. from a 6th gen Intel i7 with an AMD GPU to an AMD 5950X with an NVIDIA GPU) and they almost always just work or require only minor tweaks. Chances are it will be fine.

The fact that they don’t go for any of the ways to manage access to porn that are more effective and less invasive of privacy suggests that the point is, as always, surveillance and not protecting children from porn.

He’s arguing that the West should have been tougher on Putin sooner and the UK should have admitted more Ukrainian refugees. I don’t see any clear sign of Russian influence here.

Good for him. I’ve never seen Jeremy Corbyn be anything other than decent and honest, and frank about his policies and why they are needed, even as he was treated terribly by the media. Hopefully he can be an effective voice in Parliament during this Labour government.

Yes, everyone will die, but right-wing ideologues are not smart enough to look this far ahead.

It’s not just lack of representation though. The UK is removing trans people’s access to the healthcare that allows them to live a tolerable life.

So it wasn’t an accident that they ran over the mother, and she wasn’t the only one they tried to kill by running them over with a tank. We’ve heard this often enough now that it seems to be normal operating procedure for the IDF.

Those who only ever act out of greed and selfishness always believe these are the only reasons anyone could ever be motivated to act. The notion that people could work because they like it, or because it helps others, or because they would rather be active than inactive, is out of reach of their imaginations.

Germany is experiencing a rise in the far right too, though it hasn’t yet gone as far as in France.

Fascism continues to sweep the world. Apparently loads of people find it really appealing.

Whoops, shot in the back, beaten and strapped to a scorching jeep like some kind of human shield. Just another whoopsie by the IDF, but don’t worry, they’ll look into it to investigate how on earth they ended up being cruel to Palestinians.

Linux: Libre Office

Windows: MS Office

Libre Office is also available on Windows.

“Free software” doesn’t mean you don’t pay for it, but that it respects and preserves the user’s freedom. The opposite is not “cost software” but unfree software.

What is free software?

Most of the other points in this list are also questionable or inaccurate. In fact, I think the only true one is the first one: open source vs closed source.