It’s not a simple thing. You really need some personal tie like ancestry or marriage, go to a university, or be sponsored for work.

Being the smartest person is hard because you don’t really know how to struggle like people who had to work hard the whole time.

Probably DMCA. The Olympic committee is very jealous and very aggressive. They control all recordings strictly.

In fact income tax was created specifically because tariffs don’t work.

I’m also fairly sure that Gen Z has been moving on for a while now.

There’s an interesting question. How many people has Trump thrown a lawyer at to coerce them into an abortion after an encounter? I bet we’d be surprised by how many.

Only a small number of people are true diehard MAGA Trumpists. Most are on the bandwagon to see the right people get hurt or are just voting as they always have in the past. Nobody has ever rocked the boat before so nobody much flinched, but now it is unavoidable. Remember: many have come forward saying to the effect that they didn’t vote for this or that thing. They wouldn’t say things like that if they were not made to feel uncomfortable.

They’ve been so fervent for gun rights over decades. This will make many people have a “wait a moment” moment.

They are companies run by right wing shitbags. How many genocides were conducted on Facebook?

The smart ones work in research and teaching.

All this article is showing is that a large number of CEOs are swayed by hype and make poor decisions. What other poor decisions are they making all the time?

I am thoroughly convinced that the MBA is the most useless degree ever because when you look at how large businesses run so poorly, and are run by MBAs.

I specifically remember the exodus from DIGG as the start of reddit sucking.

Well people like that will search for any excuse. This is a harder one than children in cages for these people, though, since it does go against the standard narrative.

This is it exactly. They were fine with brown people being hurt but can’t look past a nice white lady being shot in the face over someone’s ego.

How much longer will 15 year old answers be useful?

The Redditification of SO

I buy experiences and consumables. No more stuff.

I have some contact with my siblings but pretty much only see most people once a year for holidays. I could do without the holidays, honestly.

Likewise, rebooting every successful series from the 80s and 90s for the same reason.

It has never changed. It just stopped hiding the truth.