Most military facilities become so polluted they can't be used for anything else safely after.

Is this strictly humor, or is there practical knowledge here? Honestly can't tell.

They used Turbo Basic in Dbase 3 & 4 as well. It was so useful that Foxpro built a migration tool to port your dbase databases and code to Foxpro. Some of the first floppies I carried with me everywhere were my Dbase databases and basic programs.

I've used dBase (DOS) III+ and IV extensively, but never saw any BASIC there. Did I miss something?

I eventually replaced dBase with Turbo Pascal plus a library named Topaz that offered most of the relevant functionality (including reading/writing DBF files).

The scripting language built into dBASE is essentially a BASIC without line numbers and with DB commands built into it.

I ditched my smartphone nearly 7 years ago now. I quit online gaming before that. I described it like this to the head of AI for the state of Montana: "I'm airgapping myself against how this technology will be abused."

The wiki describing the US in this story reminds me of the opening scenes to Soylet Green.

Yep, this doesn't feel organic at all. Meta must be pretty desperate if they are going to go against the blue to sell spyglasses.

Citizen's United was the nail in the coffin for honest journalism, because it sold out to those with the largest wallets. If you truly want truth in journalism support independent journalists financially, and with your attention. Ignore corporate media.

How did Citizen's United affect journalism?

To me, the rules on how large a media conglomerate could get being changed in favor of allowing the conglomerate to grow even larger did some heavy lifting. Journalism publishers no longer have to compete since their all owned by the same limited number of owners.

Ironically most of the people reading this are doing so on an always connected phone with a fused battery, that they can't trust, because they don't control it. It also has significantly more capabilities that a flock camera, and they likely pay for it too.

That's not ironic, that's _hey, look over there!_

It's called choice. Maybe a dumb choice, but a choice!

false equivalence.

Don't listen to these hecklers, you have every right to your privacy, and should demand it. Anonymity is paramount if people want to be able to talk without repercussions. Gaslighting, heckling and other forms of harassment are to convince you to self censor. Don't take the bait. Ignore them.