Tells you a lot about success and merit. He has absolutely no fucking clue what’s going to be successful and what won’t. He was just super lucky with Facebook.

The reason he’s a billionaire is because the system is totally fucked up. He’s a bug, not a feature.

Well you can ask them right now why they support a children rapist.

That’s the “funny” part about assholes dictators: their close circle will still praise them after their death, because they want to maintain the system and the cult for their own benefit, and because they don’t know who will take the dead’s place, and that person could remember what they say about dead people and assume they’ll do it again…

A comedy but showing well the process: the movie “The death of Staline”.

I hope your aim is good. That’s a tiny target!

The EU is a complex organization with different power poles and a variety of different interests. Add to that members of parliament do not always understand everything they vote for. And yes: you get bad things, nonsensical rules, but also good things.

Overall, I would say it’s positive, but when it’s bad it can be brutal.

Edit: I forgot to mention lobbying! Brussels is full of lobbyists!

Great! Now AI is going to hallucinate products and if you don’t pay attention, you’ll be overcharged. Since it’s “self-checkout”, I bet they’ll claim it’s totally your responsibility to make sure you’re not ripped.

It’s not just the US. The race for the biggest profit has hit its limits on the best value front. Now it’s pretty much all on deception and enshittification.

Hmm… I’ve read the opposite about margins: grocery store chains centralize purchasing so that they have a huge leverage on manufacturers.

For NY in particular, they shouldn’t be able to raise their price easily as the city will have its city-owned stores to compete with them.

They’re not desperate. Their system still works and trickle money up.

What they’re doing is preparing you to make monthly payments for air breezing plans.

Yeah, I suspect Trump will cave to the manosphere fans and block their extraditon.

Remember he doesn’t understand allied countries. They’re all either “very bad” or vassal states. Do you think he would have any respect for UK’s extradition demand? Pleasing a few idiots voicing up on Fox News or Newsmax will come first.

Plus he has a personal intererst in minimizing sex crimes involving kids…

Not that I know. Maybe he should?

You have to admit: how to change a dead light bulb:

20y ago:

• Open the hood
• Remove the old lighbulb
• Install the new lightbulb
• Close the hood
  Total: 5mins

10y ago:

• Open the hood
• Remove the part obstructing access to the lightbulb (4 substeps, 15mins)
• Unmount the lightbulb block (4 more screws in tight space, none of your screwdriver fits in the space)
• Take apart the lightbulb block (3 more screws)
• Replace the dead bulb
• Remount everything
  Total: 1h

Almost now:

• Press “Open hood” on the embedded computer, enter the mechanics access password that you got from the car maker after arguing on the phone for 1h
• Remove the protective panel above the hood compartment, that’s just a piece of plastic with proprietary screws incompatible with everything in your toolbox.
• 50 more substeps, instructions include “recommended crane to lift the engine out of the car: [specific model only sold in Guanzhou, China]”, 2 persons operation 2h passed
• Replace the whole “lightning apparatus” that’s a single piece including all front lights, left and right, as it’s all solded and cannot be taken apart without destroying everything. 300$ on Aliexpress with no warranty, 1000$ for the OEM model.
  Total: 8h.

How it starts: “Oh, a meme about repairing stuff! I like to repair stuff myself, let’s check the comments.”

How it keeps going: "Ok, I don’t really know shit about cars repair, I only changed a light bulb from time to time, and once I replaced a 12V battery. Let’s write a comment about what I know: installing Linux! ““This is like installing Arch with on an exotic machine…”” "

How it ends: turns out most of us match above description and answer the Linux comment…

Hunger games. I remember a Youtuber predicting Mr Beast will end up organizing some Hunger games!

That’s precisely the point of the proplem: he exploits misery and dreams of wealth in a society that by design creates misery and glorifies money.

Imagine someone neeeding the money to save an ill relative. Would you still call it"voluntarily"?

And all those kids who dream of getting rich by suffering on video, what kind of value is that promoting?

Seriously, given who’s in charge and who he surrounds him with, assume his cabinet does the same, and idiocy and incompetence propagates down.

However low your expectations would be, lower them further, and then keep lowering them.

I will congratulate them for getting the continent shape right. They probably don’t know where it is in the world…

Sure! Looking forward to finally see one of these good guys!

Anyone ever saw one??

Nah! Too many loud christians there!

I think both your points are compatible.

He’s saying you can’t destroy evidence.

You’re saying they were no evidence because the charges were made up with nothing to back the suspicion. The system was abused.
He’s telling you that’s for a court to determine, you can’t just claim it.

I’m no expert here. Just trying to understand myself.

I was just wondering how much should be paid to whom for the policy to be reversed, so that datacenter would be the last thing to be shut down.