An interesting point! I’ve heard others say they prefer gridlock in Washington.

Well, I guess it’s an agent.

What a response!

System TTS or built in?

Any root functions?

Thanks! Something I’ll consider.

Have you used tart cherry juice as a sub for sherry in the past? I suppose the flavor would not be as complex, but I’m intrigued.

Same

Copy / paste formats like this by default. I agree it’s distracting, but it wasn’t intended to be so by the poster.

Driving the news: “People are always surprised when I tell them the federal government is so much less corrupt than probably it’s ever been, in terms of just pure bribes, or patronage or favors,” Obama said in an episode of his newly launched podcast, “A Great Book with Barack Obama.”

The six-episode series, in which Obama sits down with celebrities and public figures to discuss famous books, premiered on Amazon's Audible platform Thursday.

In the third episode, he speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore about Robert Penn Warren's 1946 novel "All the King's Men."

Between the lines: Obama argued that reforms that reduced patronage and other forms of political dealing also stripped away some of the transactional tools lawmakers once used to build coalitions.

He pointed to former President Lyndon B. Johnson's era, saying reforms before and after Watergate "eliminated or greatly reduced" the ability of political machines to trade votes and favors.
"It's part of the reason why things got a little harder to get done because that was sort of some lubrication...to help to bridge some of the ideological differences that were out there," he said.

Reality check: Obama was talking specifically about bribery, patronage and favors. Polls asking Americans whether government corruption is “widespread” capture a much broader perception, making the two measures difficult to compare.

Or just grease the current US executive branch with some complimentary words, request permission to launch, and bam!

There’s no way to get around “any mention of civil rights” though. That covers all humans.

So there’s Wi-Fi or cellular network, but just filtered?

Maybe. This was an advertisement for a book that had those themes.

Personally, I don’t want either to be excluded.

“After reaching out to Meta about why the promo campaign had been stomped out, the company replied that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system,” and therefore rejected.”

Wow.

How does WhatsApp work without Internet?

Offer up, but it’s kinda same same, just without zuck.

This made me thoughtful and laugh at the same time, thank you.

You’re right, of course. People prefer centralized platforms, and we “nerds” prefer decentralized ones.

There are no alternatives.

But Google is pushing its own AI at the top of its searches. As if search is going to “soon be deprecated”.

A computer must be part of the process so no human has to take the blame!

/s

Incredible how software companies can be actively hostile to customers.

IRC is great. The challenge is picking a client for the family, and getting them set up. It’s not friction free.