Only revisionist "data" shows job loses. Actual U.S. Labor Department data shows the opposite.

U.S. Economy Adds 130,000 Jobs in January, Exceeding Expectations; Unemployment Falls to 4.3%

- On Wednesday, the U.S. Labor Department reported U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%.

- Government revisions cut into the previously reported 584,000 jobs figure, sharply reducing prior payroll totals and muddling 2024-2025 payrolls.

- Private measures showed weaker hiring as ADP payroll processor reported 22,000 jobs added last week, while Challenger, Gray & Christmas recorded more than 108,000 cuts last month and job openings fell to 6.5 million.

- Analysts say the unemployment rate is providing a better gauge amid revisions and will influence policy and markets, while economists warned revisions could mean the American economy lost jobs in 2025.

- Policy factors including high interest rates, Elon Musk's federal workforce purge last year, and President Donald Trump's immigration policies have cut labor supply and lowered the jobs break-even point.

https://ground.news/article/us-economy-adds-130-000-jobs-in-january-exceeding-expectations-unemployment-falls-to-43_9aa5d0

Crypto-currency is just 1s and 0s on computer storage somewhere.
No intrinsic value at all. All it is good for is to sell it to a bigger idiot, if you can.

The FBI has the hard drives, with all the videos and images. Why not identify and prosecute the perpetrators and forget about this "Epstein Files" silliness?

I am no Bill Gates fan, but I see no reason to trust anything in the "Epstein Files"

1. Just because something is claimed, in some document, is not evidence of anything. I could create an email claiming anybody committed any crime.

2. I have zero trust in the intelligence community. Who pushed the Russia-Collusion hoax for two years? Who setup Roger Stone, and General Flynn, although neither did anything wrong? Who setup the J6 protesters? Who raided Mar-a-Logo? 17 intelligence agencies swore that Russian Collusion was real. 51 former intelligence operative swore that the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian Disinformation."

The intel community has had control of those files for the last six years. Remember what Chuck Schumer said: "The intelligence agency has six ways to Sunday of getting back at you." Clearly, when Trump threatened to drain the swamp, the intel community does not care for that.

What I have read of the article here, seems to juxtapose the two.
Trains made some people less close to their families, not markets.

I look at the windows users with a sort of bewilderment.
I guess it's all about the apps.
Meh, nothing that I need.

1. Use something like the "Back to the Land" model, except without the racism.
Buy some acreage as a corporation, maybe an LLC.
People buy shares in the corporation, which gives them the right to live on the acreage.
People build their own homes for a fraction of the cost.
Elon Musk is selling awesome prefab homes for about $12K. You can also get some great tiny homes on Amazon starting around $10K. Buy the time it's said and done, expect to spend around $40K - about 1/10th the price of a lot of suburban homes.

2. Live in some sort of RV, or converted school bus, or something
Do this, and you don't need a building permit.
Some converted school buses are awesome, just beautiful.
You can live on BLM land for free
There are places you can buy an acre of land for about $1000. Usually desert land. You can buy more productive land for about $10K an acre.
Get some solar panels set up. Maybe sign up for Starlink.

Get away from unsafe, filthy, noisy, overpriced, cities.

I can get a decent Android tablet for about $100.
A tablet that goes for $600 - $800 is hard to justify.

It is a slow process, but it's working.
SystemD dependency will slowly infect everything in Linux.
At that point, FreeBSD Linux compatibility layer will no longer work.
If Linux software does not run on the BSDs, then the BSDs are dead.
Linux, as we have known it, will also be dead. IBM will control all Linux.
IBM has been working on this for decades.

Sadly, I expect much more of this.
It might take a few more years, but they will slowly make everything dependent on systemd.
Then, linux will be effectively owned by IBM.
IBM has operated like this since the 1950s.

Napster got shut down. Kim dotcom was shutdown and sued for everything he had.
But youtube has loads of copyright material. Youtube has ads, but they are easy to bypass. And, as I understand it, the content creators get little to nothing from the ad revenue.

Nice trolling.

Package management seems better. At least for my needs.
Not so much snap this, flatpack that, docker something else.

Nothing is perfect, but FreeBSD makes a better desktop than many people might expect.

You can get a decent phone for about $150. You can get a decent plan for about $25 a month.