That’s an extremely simplistic model, when in reality the way to fascism, is that the democracy fails to protect itself against it.
This happens easiest in new or flawed democracies, and USA is very much a flawed democracy. Where all the checks and balances don’t work, when the executive branch is filled with corrupt traitors that don’t give a shit about decency or democracy.

In a democracy the parlament can overthrow the government, and end its control with the equivalent of the executive branch.
AFAIK congress cannot overthrow a president for being unworthy or acting illegally.

Americans probably thought they were safe, because they have about 200 years of tradition for democracy, so they thought it was so ingrained that it couldn’t fail, because the country is built on it, and the institutions would protect it.

Oh please, for instance AfD got 20% of the vote, and have no real power, because Germany has an actually functioning democracy.
But yes we hear a lot of warnings against AfD, because they are like MAGA, difference is they can’t disrupt everything with lies like in USA. Because in EU you have responsibility when using your freedom of speech. You can’t parrot some idiot making history falsification, ands claim you are just “reporting” it. Unfortunately the old East Germany is unhappy with the state of things, and want to go back to before the country was split. Which means they want Nazi Germany back.

this is happening all over the globe.

This is textbook false equivalence.

I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED:

I find this offensive, it can’t possibly be true, because Elon knows more than anybody else on this planet about production. He has said so himself!!
And one thing we know for sure, is that you can trust Elon. We will have FSD by 2017, and a manned base on the moon by 2024. And Hyperloop will revolutionize public transportation.

/s

Toughest truck ever built, bullet proof, yada yada yada.

Well apparently it’s not even wind proof. 🤣🤣🤣

Maybe I’m wrong, but as I read the article, Linus isn’t convinced this is a good idea either.
I’m not saying things can never change, but opening for a mixed code base is a recipe for disaster.

That seems brutal, will they ever recover?

That does NOT sound like a good idea.

We’ve turned our development model into a well-oiled engineering marvel,

Exactly, and I’m pretty sure one of the reasons is that it’s remained on C, and NOT switched to C++, as has been often suggested.
The second they make it a mixed code base, that’s the same second quality will deteriorate. Mixed code base is a recipe for disaster.

Edit:

Torvalds eventually responded by defending the Linux kernel development process and scolding Martin for grandstanding on social media about the issue. Martin later quit as a Linux maintainer and resigned from the Asahi Linux project.

Seems like Linus isn’t onboard with this.

But I guess all the downvoters know better?

opening for a mixed code base is a recipe for disaster.

Greg Kroah-Hartman:

Yes, mixed language codebases are rough, and hard to maintain, but we are kernel developers, dammit.

That’s special pleading, that lacks basis in reality. Still he admits it’s rough to mix codebases.

I’m not claiming Rust wouldn’t be brilliant in some situations, but the detraction of a mixed codebase is worse than the benefit.

They were slammed!!! Oh boy that’s rough. I hope they weren’t slammed too hard. /s

I think the word they were looking for may have been “criticized” or something like that?

death threats against Musk.

STOP THREATENING!!!

how close is the United States to a constitutional crisis: Are we headed toward one, on the brink, or already there?

Since Trump has already declared that only the President can interpret the law, I’d say USA is already there.
Also the administration is taking over offices that are supposed to be controlled by congress.
Finally, the illegal intervention and control extended to Elon Musk where he has has lifted information also illegally, and has CLEAR conflicts of interest, is enough by itself.

So IMO USA is already there on several counts.

Trump is a fascist, and he is REALLY trying to create a totalitarian state this time, and it’s evident to have been planned beforehand.

PS: This alone too is a constitutional crisis:
https://thesource.com/2025/02/19/king-trump-official-white-house-social-media-page-sends-long-live-the-king-message/

To declare himself King, might seem like just in bad taste, but it’s actually what he see himself as, and he won’t stop until he has absolute control.
It’s also unconstitutional because Kings are above the law, and the constitution says nobody is above the law.
So the constitutional crises began already BEFORE Trump was president, when a hijacked supreme court declared the President to actually be above the law. (as long as it’s a republican)

PS: Quote from the constitution Section 9 clause 8:

No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States.

an independent expert drove a Tesla Model 3 for 600 kilometers of Bavarian highways and experienced five separate phantom braking incidents.

I’ve said it before, those cars should not be street legal.
It’s not just the phantom breaking, it also 30% failure rate at 4 year safety checks in Denmark, and higher average accident rate than any other car.

https://opentools.ai/news/tesla-model-3-inspection-failures-spark-concerns-in-denmark

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2025/02/11/tesla-again-has-the-highest-accident-rate-of-any-auto-brand/

These are not just anecdotal incidents, but a proven systemic problem throughout the design of Tesla cars.
Blinkers that are Inconvenient in maybe 10% the cases you use them, may be a minor thing, until you have an accident because of it!

If this is true, why then couldn’t Arm prevent Qualcomm from using a license agreement they had with a company Qualcomm bought?
The Arm Qualcomm case is bullshit, if you make a license agreement with a company that is later bought by a bigger company, it’s no longer the same “legal person”. And should absolutely void the license.

This is not entirely fair, Kodak invested a lot in digital photography, I personally bought a $1500 Kodak digital camera around 2002.
But Kodak could not compete with Canon and other Japanese makers.

To claim Kodak could have made more successful cameras earlier, is ignoring the fact that the technology to make the sensors simply wasn’t good enough early on, and would never have been an instant hit for whoever came first to market. Early cameras lacked badly in light sensitivity dynamics and sharpness/resolution. This was due to limitations in even world leading CMOS production capabilities back then, it simply wasn’t good enough, and to claim Kodak should have had the capability to leapfrog everybody doesn’t make it true.

To claim Kodak could have beat for instance Canon and Sony, is ignoring the fact that those were companies with way more experience in the technologies required to refine digital photography.

Even with the advantage of hindsight, I don’t really see a path that would have rescued Kodak. Just like typesetting is dead, and there is no obvious path how a typesetting company could have survived.