I remember a theory that the US government asked Microsoft to purchase Skype and change it from p2p to server-based, so that they could intercept decrypted communications.

Skype was originally made by a European company (Latvian?).

I hate when a website allows me to deselect corporate partners who have access to my data, but rather than deselecting all of them it offers me the chance to manually select 600 or 800 one at a time.

They won’t learn a goddamn thing. They’ll vote for him again.

You are assuming that he wasn’t serious when he said people would not need to ever vote again.

The only promises that he has kept, or has any intention of keeping, are the ones that lead to an authoritarian, fascist government.