I’m starting to think that maybe Elon DIDN’T turn off Ukraine’s access the other day and merely said he did, in the same way the Russians say “the Ukrainians didn’t blow up that depot; a soldier was smoking and accidentally started a fire”.
What’s your recommended alternative?
On the contrary: pearls come into existence because something, like a grain of sand or whatever, gets stuck in the oyster. The foreign object is irritating to the oyster so it coats it with a substance that makes it smoother and less irritating. So if you could remove a pearl without killing an oyster, you’d actually be doing it a favor.
There’s some kind of mental health metaphor in that, I’m sure, but damned if I know what it is.
There’s a lot of good EU news today.
The bad news is that North Macedonia’s membership negotiations have stalled due to a standoff with Bulgaria.
Ironic, given that DARPA originally envisaged the Internet specifically as a decentralized comms network which would be resilient against these kinds of strikes. But I suppose it’s different in a dictatorship which needs central control.
And yet Valve’s revenue was twice that of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s. Steam can run on a generic PC; Steam Deck and GabeCube are merely gravy. Storefronts are where the money’s made. Hell, haven’t PS5s been selling at a loss until recently? What’s 13 million times a negative amount?
Anyone who believes Bezos clearly doesn’t understand how capitalism works. AI will allow rich people who already own the companies to increase productivity with fewer employees. Meaning, they will gain more money and have less reason to spend it. Without a drastically higher wealth tax which funds social programs, how are the working (read: redundant) class going to GET access to money? With what jobs?
Let me ask you this: back in more chauvinistic times, a family was expected to subsist entirely on a single salary: the husband’s. Since women’s lib doubled the workforce, have families become more or less able to afford necessities like housing? The economy doesn’t adjust to make things easier for people. If the average household income doubles, households don’t become more able to afford things. Prices just go up.
The people who already possess resources like property aren’t gonna suddenly stop asking have-not newcomers for as much money as they can squeeze out of them. There’s absolutely no aspect of capitalism that will ever lead to that outcome.
So if rich people who own businesses can make those businesses function with fewer employees, then they’re not gonna just say “hey guys, I’m gonna pay you the same wages for only working 3 days, doubling my workforce and the amount I have to pay it”. There’s no reason for them to do so. None. Poor people will, instead, go jobless and be allowed to slowly die of any of many poverty-related causes.
Rich people only tolerate poor people because they need so many of us to do things for them. That’s about to change.
“Sold” as in the past tense of “sell”.
“They have no shame, do they? They don’t even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”
Doesn’t mention how Switches and Steam Decks are doing, but I would venture to guess that Valve is eating Sony and Microsoft’s lunch.
Pretty sure Christopher Nolan did not, in fact, melt any civilians.
If her name isn’t as important as where it happened, to the point that you’re annoyed that the who was in the headline but not the where, then you are, in fact, saying that you don’t care about the who.
It is when you explicitly say you don’t care about the who.
You know, it never occurred to me that most pornos depict an inherently friendly world. Everybody wants to introduce themselves to their new neighbors, everybody tips the pizza guy, everybody’s willing to cut poor people a break by accepting alternative forms of payment, different races get along famously, teachers are able to dedicate time to one-on-one tutoring, blended families are very accepting of each other, etc.
The word “liberal” is useless because there is no consensus on what it means. Similarly useless are the words “left” and “right”. “Marxist” is still useful because nobody can deny that it denotes adherence to the ideas of Karl Marx. Similarly, even though people TRY to erode its meaning, “Christian” must ultimately mean adherence to the philosophies espoused by Christ. So for example anyone who identifies as “Christian” but makes no attempt to follow the principles he espoused, is simply lying.