tl;dr: Trump’s lust for money is fed by “deals” that do not need to be conventionally successful.

Here’s the subheadline:

Everything the US president does is for money – and in serving his avarice, he’s managed to triumph over the market

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Trump has figured out to an exceptional degree that dealmaking does not need to be successful in order to massively increase his wealth.

Deals, successful or not, are Trump’s magic means to amass money and feed his avarice.

… greed can have numerous objects – such as food, sex and power – whereas avarice is single-minded in its focus on money.

Trump exemplifies this focus.

Other commodities are of interest to him only insofar as they serve his desire to acquire, hoard and increase his stock – of money.

It’s a “full beard” too, but you’d have to really zoom in to tell.

Green Bastard from parts unknown!

The Juicy Lucy!

The original: https://www.mattsbar.com/

The spiritual successor: https://thebdp.com/

I’d love to think so too, but I think our echo chamber is pretty tight.

I certainly think they’re ready for mainstream usage (I have one Bazzite install myself), but I don’t think there’s significant awareness beyond the dedicated fan base.

There aren’t really any actually useful metrics that I know of, but the only one of the 3 I’ve mentioned that broke into distrowatch’s top 100 is Bazzite, and that’s only in the last few months.

And for legal threats: I doubt any court in any country will give credence to that. Fedora is MIT licensed.

That’s certainly part of the motivation (see the 4th paragraph).

Yes, image based. No, not Bazzite specifically, but silverblue (and kinoite) under the fedora banner directly.

But that’s not really the point of the article. In order for those to go mainstream, flatpak and especially flathub have a lot of maturing to do first, and the author lays out a pretty good roadmap with thorough explanations.

Or is it pique?

… Probably both. Peak pique.

Looking at the very short script that powers the site, adding additional search engines is trivial (though at some point will make refactoring obligatory).

If that’s the assertion you think I made, we’re not speaking the same language. Of course we’re rightly upset. But this article should have been more than mere ragebait.

I’m taking issue with the article itself and that it doesn’t reach the right conclusion (or really any conclusion). With the notion that it’s ok at all for the government to be in a position where the whim of a shitbird, wannabe dictator toward a private person needs to be tempered against their business interests.

In a way, Trump is right (for the wrong reasons of course) that these contracts should be reviewed. It’s utterly unacceptable to be backed into a “too big to fail” corner with a single company, especially when it comes to national security.

I’m disappointed that an article from Mother Jones didn’t rail against this obvious and glaring issue with plutocracy/oligarchy: what the hell happens when the the next bromance dies and there aren’t any sanity checks left? Instead, because it’s missing, the article effectively further entrenches the notion that privatization of every aspect of government is right and good.

But it’s the review itself, that it happened at all, that should cause considerable alarm, even if it involves an unsympathetic character such as Elon Musk.

Why should it cause alarm? It’s just more of the same trashing of whatever catches their eye at a given moment as everything else has been.

Because it’s revenge? Like Trump hasn’t done a hundred things like cancelling federal contracts for projects out of spite already?

No, we’re well past this pearl clutching already.

If anything, this should be a wakeup call to Americans about the dangers of being too reliant on private companies for public needs.

I thought so too until I recently inherited some asp.net code that defies basic comprehension and has existed since well before vibe coding.

Fucking embarrassing.

Seems on brand. Like they want people deported so they can go on missionary trips to accost them in their home countries with the love of Jesus.

I assume they haven’t seen the rundown on the math that gets people rounded up as “alleged” gang members.

The copium is strong right now and that’s major/“legacy” media’s fault.

Time to sell a service that will cancel it for you.

Next time just tell Noem that the rain didn’t have a visa to enter the country.

Trump tried to cut NOAA funding by billions over the first administration, but Congress basically kept funding steady.

NOAA isn’t under homeland security, so who knows why Numbskull Noem even talked about it.

Why didn’t they ask her if this was going to affect her ability to meet the arrest quota for illegals? Or if the weather response would take eyes off the border allowing the cartels to use this distraction to increase fentanyl shipments?

At least give her the proverbial rope to hang herself with questions in her own purview.

That sort of thing isn’t anything new. My grandpa made my dad burn his baseball cards because he thought they were becoming “idols.”

I’m always amazed that my dad managed to rebuild their relationship later in life.

Had a smoke detector going off randomly one night and I pulled it down only to have mama crawl all over my hand as the babies were running around like maniacs, some casting off. Mama still had a bunch on her when I got the smoke detector outside.

For the uninitiated.