I see Trump feels like he needs to take over Elon's headlines.

It used to be bad. In the last few years, it isn't. We want other people to use Linux now.

Or literally any other distro.

Pop is probably much easier to be up and running vs. Bazzite.

That does make sense.

Related to my original comment, I've been on a Japanese Shinkansen many times. It is a shockingly different experience. Comfortable, clean, no fuss, and relatively inexpensive. From Tokyo to Kyoto in about 2 hours (roughly 450km distance).

Once you leave the high speed train, you're greeted by a subway system also second to none. Get virtually anywhere you need to in the city without the need for a car. A 45 minute ride tends to be $3-4.

Even in cities with relatively limited subway systems (limited for Japan -- still extensive in many comparisons), like Kyoto, the bussing system is actually fantastic. Equally clean, and you can even use the same touch card you use for rail.

European trains are pretty great too. Maybe not as nice as Japan, but e.g. the German ICE is pretty clean and also affordable. Sure, DB is famous for being late too, but not Amtrak levels of late.

I guess that was just a ramble. All to say: what wonderful things our "modern" countries could do if we didn't idolize fighting amongst ourselves.

Very deceptive headline. Quotes on 'babysitter' in a sentence purporting to be about Melania's opinion.

A simple ", says source" at the end would have given significantly more journalistic integrity.

I know. A tall order in 2025.

If you've ever ridden Amtrak, you probably know what the big problem is: most rail lines in the US give extreme priority to freight, and the freight operators basically own all the track. As a result, Amtrak is constantly late -- sometimes very late, since it needs to wait for freight to do its thing.

Couple that with Amtrak rates being sky high, plus the fact that it's extremely slow even without the freight waiting, and it's a much deeper story than how much track exists.

Trump, Trump.... Oh! You mean the guy Elon bought?

Haven't thought about him or the sofa guy in a while.

I've been thinking of the "capitalism breeds innovation" thing a lot lately.

It may still be true, but the latest innovations are always in money making. There is no incentive to innovate in a way that serves a common good, but there is massive incentive to "innovate" in a way that drives profits up.

Subscriptions to everything and the erosion of ownership? Innovative.

Insurance companies taking your money and then denying your claims? Innovative.

Uncapped campaign finance and buying politicians? Innovative (well, it's been done before, but not to this scale in a very long time).

Exactly this. There was a meme (or maybe many) rolling around long ago about how the intention was not to have humans do all the jobs and AI do all the art: quite the opposite.

This is related to the growth in productivity we have seen across industries for the last 50 years. It is through the roof, but wages are lower per unit production and aren't showing any signs of ending their stagnation.

The problem there is the same with all this new tech enhancing lives and production, while people still have to work as much as before, if not more: the gains, monetary or otherwise, are being pocketed by someone else.

It's like wage theft, but "better": it's progress theft.

While this is a good thing, holy hell does it show the absolutely horrible state of health care in the US. Medical bills that can ultimately end a life (in a financial sense) simply should not exist.

But we clearly can't fix the for-profit system, so we band-aid it by excluding the unpaid bills from credit reports.

Meanwhile, the incoming US President wants to fix health care by "privatization". Someone should let him know that the system is (mostly) privatized already, which is the entire problem.

(Edit: last bit /s. He clearly knows, but wants to make him and his cronies even more money)

I also have 64GB, and it is used exclusively for internet tabs

I haven't even gotten on the 4k bandwagon yet. I fully expected to by now, but then again, my eyes aren't getting any better and 1080p content still looks... fine.