SpaceCowboy

Sure but with Wordpad I wouldn't much care if they spam it up with this kind of crap. It's something that doesn't have much use now, because there's notepad for basic text files and Word or Libre Office for actual word processing. So if someone wanted something to type up some notes that get automatic backups, and have AI recommendations (not that it would be me, but who knows?) just put it on there so we still have a simple text editor that's installed by default.

If they're going to enshittify something at least don't enshittify the basic tools of the OS.

Yup and the weapons used by Mexican cartels mostly come from the US as well.

System needs a smoke, but the sign is unclear. Usually red circle means not to do something, but those signs usually have a line through the cigarette. So should we smoke here or not?

In the Thunderbolts Trailer, it shows US Agent (who has a costume similar to Captain America) using a round shield to block gunfire. If that trailer played before the movie he was watching, it's understandable someone that didn't watch Falcon and Winter Soldier would think "oh that guy is Captain America now, I guess? Thought Sam Wilson was going to be Captain America... but ok, I guess." Then the move starts and it actually is Sam Wilson as Captain America.

This is the problem with there being so many entries into the franchise and filmmakers assuming everyone has watched them all. Most people aren't going to know who US Agent is and from the Thunderbolts trailer, they might assume it's a new Captain America.

Hmmm... I'm good at writing regexes that look like they'll work but don't. But there's a website that I can use to make a few adjustments to them and get them working. I suddenly forgot the URL... regex100.com or something like that? Oh well it looks like it'll work, so it's probably good enough...

The cope is strong with this one. "There's other people being dumb too!"

Yup, and the source of this is disinformation from adversaries like Russia, China, and Iran being laundered through US social media companies to made to appear legitimate. Well I guess TikTok isn't American (yet) so I guess China somehow got into the game of laundering disinformation too.

And the trend is actually incumbents losing power, not necessarily a right wing shift. You see the disinformation can be a blunt tool so it just results in people hating their own governments. The UK had an election where the Conservative party lost... as they were the incumbent.

But nowhere has the government been turned over to greedy businessmen to the degree the US has been. Argentina has their President briefly promoting a memecoin, sure, but he may face a lot of repercussions for doing that. Fun Fact: the Argentinian memecoin was launched by the same people that launched $MELANIA, and no one in the US cares about it nor do they care about the $TRUMP memecoin. It's open season for grifting Americans, because it's the gritters that are now in charge of everything in the US.

But go on making excuses for why it's all ok. I'm sure that will result in fixing the problems in your country.

Yeah it's more about calling Putin/Trump's bluff than anything else. We all know they don't give a shit about democracy in Ukraine, Trump is just using the "dictator" rhetoric to appeal to his base. But that argument is gone now, so now Trump has to come up with a new lie to explain why he's doing whatever Putin is telling him to do.

Ukraine joining NATO could be part of a peace agreement though.

It's so stupid that they're making these additions to notepad. There is a need to have a basic text editor on an OS that isn't going to try to "help" by giving recommendations, automatically backs up files or whatever other shit they're trying to jam into it.

They had wordpad and if they wanted to add additional features into that, that's completely fine. There are use cases for something that does a bit more than a simple text editor like notepad can do.

My guess is that they tracked that people used notepad more often than wordpad so they removed wordpad. Then started making notepad more like wordpad without considering why people used notepad more frequently.

Well it's hard to know for sure when trying to figure out the motivation of a crazy person, but it's probably a combo of wanting to change things on maps, thinking tariffs are a good replacement for having any kind of taxes on the wealthy, wanting Canadian resources for free, not understanding what a trade deficit is, and of course being obsessed with money. Also he probably has a grudge against Canada because Trudeau made fun of him and he's a small and petty man that's been given power.

There's also wanting to emulate his buddies Putin and Xi.

That would be stupid. When Italians were conscripted to fight against British soldiers in Africa, most of them didn't even like Mussolini. So what did they do? The surrendered and sat the rest of the war out.

That wouldn't have happened if the allies had a policy of mutilating their prisoners.

Fascism is a hate movement, and hatred is self-destructive. You can't defeat an enemy with hatred you'll only destroy yourself.

Offer an out for those that want to sit it out. Those that won't, are targets that need to be eliminated. Not a target of your fucked up torture fantasies.