When using my current browser, any guess as to how often I’ve said to myself “I need a browser that spies on me more”?

Is he going to paint himself orange to ingratiate himself with the boss? “You wouldn’t fire a fellow Oompa-Loompa!”

I suspect Altman has ambitions beyond being Microsoft’s cat’s paw, though it may be that that’s all he really is once the shouting is over.

Well, killing off Chrome would probably be a good thing.

That deal was a poison pill, and it was Rabin’s deal, not Clinton’s. Clinton just cynically pretended it was fair.

Israel/Palestine is absolutely, ultimately the fault of the British

I’d say it’s more the fault of the Stern Gang and its modern descendants, especially the Likud, and the utter spinelessness of the US and Europe in the face of a disciplined, well-funded, relentless lobbying group.

Wow, Pitchfork still exists.

Thick as pig shit.

Boob recognize boob.

They only back them when they’re murdering or brutalizing us.

“His whole life has consisted of nothing but lying, backstabbing, betrayal and treason. Who could have ever imagined he’d keep doing that?”

It shows that the East Coast metropolitan elite that is the source of most top-line journalists is collectively pig-ignorant about tech matters. NYT’s tech coverage is mainly puff pieces tracking the hype cycle of the tech du jour. I’ve never seen anything insightful from them. It’s like listening to lawyers discuss tech. Without my iron self-control, there would have been so many defenestrations.

I know from the way it looks at me that my spreadsheet loves me.

Kind of like “commonwealth” in English.

It’s especially terrible if the MF is completely different in private

That’s because he’s two-faced.

So he’s trying to declare Game Over to avoid accountability? Fuck that.

Tesla sales have so much further to fall, keep up the pressure.

That’s what “merit” means, just as it always has.

The other end of that is just as bad. The Saudis raise cattle in the desert because their government wants to encourage its citizens to consume more cow’s milk (you can also buy camel’s milk in supermarkets but it’s very much an acquired taste). There are vast structures to provide shade, and misting systems to keep the cattle cool, all of this in one of the hottest desert environments on earth. The farms are manned by low-paid TCNs who live in abysmal conditions. And the water? Saudi Arabia is mining subterranean aquifers at a mad rate, and it’s not in any way sustainable. So both ends of the supply chain are wasteful abominations.

Shutting down the irrigation of all golf courses would be a big win too.

I think that underestimates the extent to which the Chinese economy is vulnerable to reduced demand from foreign partners. I’m not saying China’s in a worse position than the US, since the US has a blithering imbecile traitor as President. But they’re not invulnerable to economic shocks either.