@jenzi @jeffjarvis No, this is a pretty blatant lie by the Times. Mueller did not rule it out. The Mueller Report (and subsequent congressional hearings) clearly established that Trump's campaign manager "colluded" with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian agent. It was Trump's Attorney General Bill Barr who said that Mueller failed to prove a conspiracy, as part of his public effort to downplay the Mueller report and mischaracterize its findings.

@jeffjarvis Whatever deficiencies Kamala has a candidate can be remedied by her choice of running mate, just as she had done for Biden. Put Buttigieg on the ticket, send him over to Fox News to do hour-long interviews every week between now and November. Problem solved. Because there was not a contested primary, there's no way the party could possibly dump Harris at the convention without catastrophic revolt.

@jeffjarvis You can easily delete that headline in the body of your post. It's confusing to read. It often appears that YOU are saying contradictory things. "Joe Biden needs to win or America is over. Here's why Trump won't be so bad"

@jeffjarvis You should stop reproducing headlines with which you disagree in your posts without calling them out, e.g., with quotation marks. It's confusing to read things like, "The Times is trying to make Biden lose and it's irresponsible. Here's why Joe Biden is bad: (link to article you disagree with)". Just post your commentary and the link.

@thurrott That may be true, but I'm not going to spend $1000+ on any premium portable PC when they can't even match the performance and battery life of a $600 M1 MacBook Air. There are lots of perfectly fine PC laptops in the $500-800 range with the same CPUs you find in premium laptops, but I wouldn't buy any of those right now either. Until the next-gen Snapdragon laptops hit the market, there's nothing that can compete with Apple. (And I say this as something who'd rather not use Mac OS).

@thurrott Not the main reason, just another reason. My primary reason is because they bought Palm and immediately killed it along with WebOS, and I'll never get over it. It's petty, but there are plenty other companies that make better products anyway, so who cares. Final reason is that HP's affordable laptops are all made out of the worst plastic that seems to crack and fall apart more easily than other cheap laptops I've worked on. Also, their DRM'd printers need to die.

@thurrott The HP Support Assistant did this?! Another good reason to avoid HP products.

@thurrott A new strategy I’m employing in addition to the standard tracking blocking in Brave, is using AdNauseam in Firefox. It uses the engine from uBlock Origin to block ads, while silently “clicking” on every ad it comes across. Presumably all the “noise” will make building a tracking profile more difficult for the ad networks, while supporting the sites I visit with bogus clicks that they should be paid for.

@AutisticMumTo3 @rbreich That's exactly the point! The people coming here today are no different than Cubans 50 years ago, Italians a 100 years ago, or whatever other ethic group however long ago it was that they came in significant numbers, but one political party treats immigration as a existential crisis, and end to life as we know it, rather than a fundamental part of the American way of life since even before the first white settlers arrived.