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I certainly wouldn't rule it out. I doubt we'll ever know for sure.

You're right - my color vision let me down there. That's good news.

One of them is dead, isn't he? Evidently the other one has doubled down on the evil to compensate.

Edit: Maybe you meant the Supreme Court fuckfaces. They're all very much alive.

Seymour Hersh may not always get things right. He seems to have been mistaken about the Syrian gas attack, for example:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/06/25/will-get-fooled-seymour-hersh-welt-khan-sheikhoun-chemical-attack/

And his Nord Stream story is hard to corroborate given its dependence on an anonymous source:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/02/10/hersh-nord-stream-sabotage/

This isn't to say he's wrong, but since there is just one anonymous source we don't really know he's right either.

That chart forecasts a consistent large use of coal and a rapid increase in power from oil after 2030. China's progress in renewable energy sources is good news, but these forecasts for coal and oil don't seem to be.

Am I likely to be annoyed about where the fiber comes into the house?

That one depends on the company installing it. When I got it installed they asked me exactly where I wanted the fiber to terminate and ran it through the house to an outlet under my desk. So let them know and they might put it where you need it.

As for the router, I recommend buying a mini PC with at least 2 Ethernet ports and 4GB of RAM and running OPNsense. It's great and will give you all the control you need. Or you can repurpose any old PC you have lying around and just add some Ethernet ports on a PCIE card.

How many high school kids will go out of their way to seek out and read extra text books though?

You joke, but some of these fires have been started deliberately.

I seem to remember Labour in the UK promising proportional representation in the 1990s, only to win a landslide in 1997 and never mention it again.

I've pulled Linux boot drives out of one machine to stick them in a very different machine (e.g. from a 6th gen Intel i7 with an AMD GPU to an AMD 5950X with an NVIDIA GPU) and they almost always just work or require only minor tweaks. Chances are it will be fine.

The fact that they don't go for any of the ways to manage access to porn that are more effective and less invasive of privacy suggests that the point is, as always, surveillance and not protecting children from porn.

It's striking how these technologies do so little of use to ordinary people, yet they hog the world's energy and the media's attention.