My first thought was “oh, I wonder what new performance enhancing drug has been discovered”

Trump reeks of flop sweat at present. The desperation is notable even from my vantage point in Australia.

Very. I expect Emacs heckling from Vi enthusiasts at my funeral.

Once upon a time, HP and quality were synonymous.

https://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?class=3&cat=32

(Edit: Though apparently the 3000 had some issues early on. Which were notable because reliability and quality issues were so non-HP).

It was … quite a while ago though. By the time I came to use HP gear in the late 90s and on, they still had a reputation for quality, though it was increasingly less deserved.

As others have commented, Apple … but also when was the last time HP was a manufacturer of quality anything? 😭

FreeBSD 😉

Edited to add: I still do use Linux for media and gaming; on those systems I run Mint because it just works out of the box, and seems to randomly change things less frequently than Ubuntu.

Or the other manufacturer of high quality aluminium dev-spec laptops, who sent their CEO to the White House to give Trump a golden plaque.

“How did so many mushrooms become lighter than air?”

It’s not something that can really fit on a vest, but I suppose you could hide it in a fat suit, a wheelchair, or a fake pregnancy belly.

Maybe that’s why people keep backing away from Trump. It’s not incontinence, it’s their dosimeter badges.

As a paying customer, can recommend Sourcehut. I prefer the workflow to GitHub’s PRs as well.

I’ll believe him when he tears off his skin suit.

First non industrialised society to send a person into orbit themselves, and fetch them back alive?

Simultaneously on the Fediverse:

• you are a bad human for working for an arms manufacturer

• support Ukraine against Russian aggression by sending them arms

Pick a lane already!

In every single case, with no counterexamples.

How would you bet $100 on this?

Yeah but you know what I meant 😉

Okay, but we can say with confidence that they all did require prior industrialisation in the way they panned out, and also, have never happened in any preindustrial society. That’s at least a solid hint.

Yes, agreed. But that’s not how I meant “balance” in that case and neither, I believe, did the OP.

Isn’t it, though? Would any of the technological - and often scientific - breakthroughs of the 20th and 21st centuries have been possible without industrialisation?

This is the “noble savage myth” dressed up for modern times as the “ecologically noble savage myth”.

Colonialism is bad, yes.

But indigenous people didn’t “live in balance with nature”. Consider e.g. the massive ecological changes wrought by indigenous Australians, Easter Island, NZ Maori, etc. Megafauna extinction, massive deforestation, etc.

Human beings are human beings, regardless of their level of technological progress.

USAID wasn’t charity though was it? I believe it was taxpayer funded.