Of all the crap the current administration is doing right now, the big headline is focusing on this silly distraction?

R.I.P. Rcade.

I think that history will give Trump credit for getting Europe to step up for its own defence. It will also record him as the most openly corrupt President ever.

I don't know how southwest are still on business. It seems like the vast majority of airplane mishaps I read about involve them.

"No Foul Play suspected"

Chevy Chase could not be reached for comment.

"Anyone that can afford to live here is already here. Why would they need a Trump Golden Green Card?"

Much shorter wait time, faster track to citizenship, could sponsor their spouse or children to come right away.

"Carlos Slim... Sounds familiar."

Carlos Slim (born 28 January 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by Forbes business magazine. As of December 2024, [he's still] the richest person in Latin America.

Not sure if this getting any coverage in the U.S., but it's a pretty big story. This will give even more leverage to the Chinese in LatAm, but it could also be an opportunity for Europe.

I miss the days when headlines were concise and didn't ramble on in first person. Now this entire paragraph would be a headline.

And polyphobia.

"Speak up? Protest? Disagree? Rebel?"

Announcing that you're ashamed of your computer country is probably the dumbest thing you could do right now. It's basically ceding patriotism to the Trumpers.

The far left supports Trump. I wouldn't be surprised if many of them voted for him, just so they could I say I told you so, ner ner ner.

"Donald Trump is a nasty little man.
He makes me ashamed of my country."

You do exactly what he wants you to do.

"FBI Director Kash Patel and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, both Trump allies, instructed workers to ignore Musk's request."

"If your relative received this message, they should reply. My guess is what they are looking for is for people that are actually proud of what they do, and have done this week."

And what about people who have been on sick leave or annual leave, or will be tomorrow and are unable to respond?

Of course, it will be easy to comply with this initially by listing 5 job functions or 5 examples of implementing particular job functions, but it sounds like this could be a weekly thing. The concern that many people have is that if the response is not worded just right, then it could be used to by DOGE to terminate employees regardless of how well they do their jobs.

"Who exactly is going to read these hundreds of thousands of reports? AI, I would assume? Programmed to look for what?"

Presumably whether it complied with the request, including a response with five bullet points and carbon copying the email to a supervisor in the same organization. Otherwise, it would probably be flagged for a person to review.

A relative of mine works at the VA received this email. She received a message from her supervisor and the union not to respond to it, for now.

History will probably remember this as an attempt to micromanage the entire federal workforce, a la Jimmy Carter, except with "AI".

Yes

Ballad of Dwight Fry by Alice Cooper
The Iliad by Ed Sanders

"Men don't declare themselves to be women."

If you give them a loophole to do it, they absolutely will. A few years ago, in Mexico, a few men declared themselves as women so they could run in local elections, because a certain number of seats were set aside for women.

"As a heterosexual man can I be part of that community?"

You can identify as Questioning. Especially if you like to ask a lot of questions.

Anyone can identify as "Queer" too, in the classical sense of the word.

In fact, if you're happy or care-free, then you're technically gay.

"transatlantic relations are over"

cisatlantic relations are in.

"Yes. L is G. No need to create a sub-category."

I disagree. I think there's a huge difference, especially when watching, er, movies. YMMV.

Found this on a Medium article:

"Since the 1990s, different versions of the initialism have proliferated as increasingly nuanced ways to understand and define people's lived experience of gender and sexuality are articulated. One expanded version of the initialism in use is LGBTQQIP2SAA, which stands for: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, pansexual, two spirit, asexual, and ally."

"in the original LGBT(Q+)"

Didn't the original ordering start with G?

Charlie Brown has been fired.