“I haven’t used Windows in over a decade, so I’m afraid I can’t help you” is one of my favorite sentences.

That’s rich coming from the leader in the field of manufacturing demand out of whole cloth.

Where were you when the bubble burst, Bill?

Ahaha! Well played.

Just visit the landing page, right click on the address bar and select ‘Add DuckDuckGo’ option at the bottom. Then go to your search settings and select DuckDuckGo Lite from the drop down.

Thanks. Just switched to it. Waiting for their AI search assistant was getting old.

I don’t know, but I think we can confidently conjecture that it’s either very hard… or very easy.

Yeah: https://www.irs.gov/

…Oh you sweet summer child.

Yeah, but we have a choice as to whether we want to run it or not.

Then it’s a good thing it’s been a very long time since I last had to care about what Microsoft wants me to do with my computers.

Freedom has always been painful. Just remember, as every adult knows: The border between pain and pleasure can be very thin indeed.

Preach, brother.

‘Hermione’s handbag’

Could we not, please? We’re hopefully still - on average - scientifically literate enough to understand what ‘large surface area’ and ‘porous’ means.

Funny. Normally we call people selling these kinds of products criminals and attempt to shut them down. Turns out those naughty lads were just going about it the wrong way. They should have gone public, floated the company and sold for dollars instead of bitcoin, and suddenly everything would magically have been just fine.

It’s a neat trick, and it works for other unsavory things normally not allowed too: “Unregulated militias and arms trafficking” becomes a “PMC”, “kidnapping and slavery” becomes “prison services” etc.

Same old tired song and dance.

Sorry, I don’t know what to tell you. I thought I’d made a mistake with the direct link and just tried it myself, but it works as expected for me.

In any case, for the benefit of you and anybody else having similar issues: it’s a link to an article about the recent issue of Rutgers professor Mark Bray apparently being prevented from leaving the US for Spain. You won’t have trouble finding coverage of it elsewhere if you’re unaware of it and wish to know more.

Components of GNU Health, perhaps?

There’s this, even

Well, that’s one way to stochastically get rid of excess population now seen as surplus to requirements, I guess.

Any former employees of the CDC might be interested to know that the EU has been beefing up epidemic response and is hiring. Assuming you’ll be allowed to leave the country, of course.

For some odd reason.