I found this morsel particularly poignant:
"Ironically, Meta expected rights groups to be too busy to step in, given the disastrous geopolitical climate.
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” the document reads, as quoted by the NYT."
Just for clarification: with these style of posts, am i supposed to read the bottom one first? I can’t remember when these types of posts came into circulation, but I’ve been puzzled about them ever since. It’s like the first/top line is sometimes the punchline, and i feel like i spoiled a joke or story by reading it from top to bottom.
Apple products about to get even more expensive!
…and make their competitions products more expensive too, i suppose
It’s a win-win really 🫠
Imagine pouring your years and efforts into making this company the giant it became, and this is how they repay you. I have to imagine it’s gonna be hard to find a new job at the same pay level etc, considering everyone is currently making big cuts to their workforce 🫠
“After careful consideration of Oracle’s current business needs, we have made the decision to eliminate your role as part of a broader organizational change,” copies of layoff notification email viewed by Business Insider stated. “As a result, today is your last working day.”
Oh, and one last thing:
Oracle declined to comment.
Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged “a few errors” in the case and pledged changes in their operations but stopped short of issuing a direct apology.
Surprise!!!
Isn’t that what happens to anything commercially successful now?
Sounds like you got banned from places that wouldn’t be worth hanging out at in the first place. Fuck em ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ if someone is that quick to get triggered by a gesture of disagreement, they couldn’t possibly have a worthwhile community under their watchful gaze.
Go figure the people that have the most power and control in this world are absolutely fucking depraved. The sickest, twisted, most disgusting people that have done things worse than one could try to conjure in their imagination. Those are the same people making life hell for nearly everyone else on the planet. Every revelation along the way only broadens the depth of their abominable behavior.
I always felt American car companies were a really good example of that back in the 60s-70s when enormously long vehicles with giant engines were the order of the day. Why not bigger? Why not stronger? It also acted as a symbol of American strength, which was being measured by raw power just like today lol.
This also reminds me of the way video game programmers in the late 70s/early 80s had such tight limitations to work within that you had to get creative if you wanted to make something stand out. Some very interesting stories from that era.
I also love to think about the tricks the programmer of Prince of Persia had employed to get the “shadow prince” to work…
Well i didn’t have “Year of the Linux Laptop” on my 2026 bingo card! That’s awesome!!
I’m here for the free upvote, lol
Hope your cake was good! 🍰
we absolutely shouldn’t buy things through Amazon or any of the other web stores Amazon owns.
I try to use eBay as an alternative, though i find every 3-4 orders i place there, i get one in an Amazon box that by all rights appears to have been shipped by Amazon. I swear people are drop-shipping stuff from Amazon to their eBay buyers.
Oh man, we owe the globe a lot these days 😅
He’s one of the “good billionaires” 🤣
This tracks 100%
So we’re sticking with the “trying to win over conservatives” angle instead of moving even a millimeter to the left? 2028 election might as well be cancelled as trump is promising, because this asshole is not the solution and only stands to forestall the inevitable plunge we’re taking as a nation.
Why do they always have such punchable faces?
Ahhhh, not what i was looking for! 🫠 Guess that’s what i get for asking a kaiju for PC components though 😅 I’ll have to remember this for next time
He hardly even had to pay for it!!!1!!