You dropped one of these: \

It's spare, you can use that one ^

He is. But the people around him and controlling/handling him aren't idiots.
It's either in project 2025, or some other republican playbook. Scattershot out a bunch of crazy news to swamp the news cycle and overwhelm everyone, then get to work doing the dirty stuff

I hope this is a pausing strategy.
A few more days to see what shakes out of the EU and other allies.
EU and US are about equal for contributions:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crew8y7pwd5o

Considering that the eu is looking at €800bn spending to help arm Ukraine (https://apnews.com/article/europe-defense-ukraine-united-states-trump-c1f12e685afc3e2ca94c9a15ea28d8bb) I don't blame Ukraine for stalling to see what happens.
Monitarily, the EU is the biggest ally. The US is the biggest single ally, but not the biggest ally.
I expect big things from the EU in the next few days, and - in a dream scenario - Zelensky goes back to the white house to "capitulate" and tells them to fuck themselves on live television.
Because you KNOW trump wants Zelensky bending-the-knee to be televised

Sounds like ICE needs more prisons. Don't bother with buildings. Just fences and tents. Might as well get free labour from them as well, seeing as they will just be sitting around doing nothing.
As for expanding monitoring programs, I feel some sort of yellow badge that immigrants must wear.

Obviously, I am describing concentration camps and the badges the Nazis made Jews wear.
Just to continue highlighting similarities.
I just wanted to make it clear that my suggestions are sarcasm, and yet the parallels are really fucking scary.

I disagree.
Saying "this is a scam" with the links visible is more transparent. If the scam changes but the links are similar, it will hopefully raise a red flag for someone.

Blurring them does nothing other than obfuscating the details of the scam.
Shine light onto the darkness and document it.

I'd rather stub my toe then see such simple mistakes

I think it's nationalism (superiority) Vs patriotism (love)

The issue is with how aggressive Microsoft is about it.

Trying to download chrome? "Hey, are you sure you don't want to try Edge?".
Changing default browser? "Hey, are you sure you don't want to try Edge?".
Windows update... "We've done you a solid, because we know you want to use Edge".
I'm sure at one point, it was a warning in the security center that you aren't using Edge.
Also Teams (in sure there are others) will open links in Edge, despite what default browser you have set.

I have FF set as default browser. Teams opens any link in edge.

Microsoft has fully gone off the deep end of batshit crazy

Like a survivorship bias?

Ye, go for it.
I'm trying to figure all that out at the moment.
I "woke up" to realising I have been depressed 🫥 for 5 years (except, it's actually 7 or 8 years because COVID just fucked my perception of time). I've not been myself, I've not been happy with myself, and I have just kept on going as usual cause it's the easy route.
I'm trying to fix it, and fuck me is it hard.

Thankfully, I was chatting to a friend. And they started talking about their mental health, their journey and all that. And that's what made me realise I should get help.
One of the things they said that stuck with me was "just keep talking about it". And that's everything from people genuinely asking how you are, to actually asking for help.

I can't give you any specific answers, beyond the fact that all 4 tank crew members survived.
So, I'd say it worked perfectly. Ultimately, that's what it's designed to do