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StumbleUpon started out being completely random, so it wasn't driven by mining your cookies and feeding the data into an algorithm. I don't know if it eventually became a nefarious advertising front, but I recall it being pretty innocent. Anyway, I really enjoyed that website before link aggregators rose to such dominance.

Well, he did just take over the Federal Elections Commission and every red state has pledged undying loyalty to him... so... yeah... not sure how great our elections are going to be in the future.

Yeah, I legitimately don't understand it. I used to like his show back around 2016-2017sh time frame. Back then, he usually just had well known comedians on and shot the shit and it was funny. Hell, he'd even have cool scientists on discussing new research they were doing that he found interesting. He'd have the occasional fringe topic, e.g. UFOs, conspiracies, etc., but it was always done in an entertaining way and wasn't overly political.

I don't know what the hell happened, but around 2019/2020 he just went way to the far right and became a giant piece of shit. I haven't listened to his garbage show in years.

I didn't mean to imply otherwise, so I apologize if that was the interpretation. There are tens of thousands of commercial flights every day around the world (a quick search suggests around 100,000+ per day), so a couple of crashes is a fraction of a drop in the ocean.

I think the news highlighting the other non-commercial airline crashes lately is due to the US charter flight/helicopter crash, so it's got higher attention traction. I also wouldn't doubt it's somewhat politically motivated, as the charter plane crash was attributed to underfunded, understaffed Air Traffic Control, while President Edolph Musk and First Lady Trump continue gutting agencies like the FAA.

Yeah I know, but it originated from Minneapolis and landed in Toronto Pearson Airport, which is very close to the US border (it's literally across the lake from New York). Different country, but really not that different since the airplane is also from a US airline with a US pilot.

Anyway, it's just uncanny how many planes have been crashing lately in a relatively short span of time.

Haven't there been 4?

I just looked it up and yeah, there have been 4 in just a few weeks: https://www.fox4news.com/news/deadly-plane-crashes-2025-timeline

Right?? Even at my peak fitness, my fastest mile was about 4:10 and I literally puked after just doing one mile (and I definitely didn't keep running afterwards). Here's this dude maintaining that speed for 13 miles.

That's simply insane. ~13.1 miles (~21.1 km) at <57 minutes is such an incredible pace. That averages out to about 4:20 minutes per mile, or 2:42 minutes per kilometer.

Amazing.

What? Physical discs can easily be ripped and you never have to worry about the license being revoked. Sure, if you just want to pirate everything all the time and never contribute money to anything, that's certainly an option.

For movies, it's best just to buy physical.

You also have to consider they have to get a contract and/or government employee team together to do the audit. If they go the contract route, that entails doing a Request For Proposal and the proper bidding process.

Government is slow because it's supposed to be transparent with proper accountability along every step. DOGE/Trump/etc all comparing government to private business is extremely stupid for numerous reasons, because they both serve wildly different purposes and have vastly different objectives. Anyone that wants the government to be more like how a private business operates is a fucking idiot.

It's apparent you all haven't been auditors. These systems are massive, and a real audit (not the bullshit faux-audits that DOGE is supposedly doing) takes thousands and thousands of man-hours on massive systems. Yes, DOGE has only been around for less than a month, but they've setup unauthorized systems and servers all over the fucking government. I can imagine what they've done at the Treasury Dept is going to take a lot of careful work and study to trace everything and generate a full report with actual artifacts.

That being said, at my job, we've had to comply with spontaneous audits on our network of over 100,000 devices (servers, workstations, appliances, etc) and have had it all completed within 2 months with around ~50 people working full-time. August is a tad extreme, but I'm guessing with such a sensitive system, they're going to want it to be extremely thorough.