It’s notable how many former professionals come out against things they saw while happily profiting from them as current professionals.

You see this a lot with the War on Drugs. Former Police Chiefs etc. And of course the most famous example - Butler’s “War is a Racket”.

OTOH - consider the plight of Manning and Snowden. Perhaps a penalty of 2 years would encourage whistleblowers?

Nathan Fillion’s great isn’t he?

That depends entirely where the Tesla stopped, and under what conditions.

Retired lieutenant-colonel, engineer, and TV presenter.

Electron!

He missed “I don’t have pica and a container of Polonium in my fridge”

This has been your reminder to vote for candidates who support voluntary euthanasia. Otherwise this might be you, or your loved ones.

Is it better for them to remove the app altogether and have users on Apple forced to use it through the website?

Yes. Clearly yes, for everyone. This sort of shit only continues because people don’t do that.

How did we get to a place where “Hitler was bad” is no longer the default in mainstream US politics?

I’d argue it started with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Surrender_and_immunity

Compare with Jefferson’s letter to Adams on the matter of the Barbary states …

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-10-02-0058

Our instructions relative to the Barbary states having required us to proceed by way of negotiation to obtain their peace, it became our duty to do this to the best of our power. Whatever might be our private opinions, they were to be suppressed, and the line marked out to us, was to be followed. It has been so honestly, and zealously.

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These are the reasons which have influenced my judgment on this question. I give them to you to shew you that I am imposed on by a semblance of reason at least, and not with an expectation of their changing your opinion. You have viewed the subject, I am sure in all it’s bearings. You have weighed both questions with all their circumstances. You make the result different from what I do. The same facts impress us differently. This is enough to make me suspect an error in my process of reasoning tho’ I am not able to detect it.

Trump writes - and thinks! - like a young and petulant schoolchild in comparison with Jefferson.