Jesus, they are sprinting to kill the Internet before others do rather than offering an alternative.

This centralizes information, decisions, and removes humans from the web. Shitty website? Poor writing? Illiterate population? No penalty, someone else’s AI will summarize it for your victims users. You can just insert someone else’s AI token you can buy that shares content that some other AI told you is “optimized” and when the AI summarizes itll be something users respond to or engage with. Just like short form video, it doesn’t mean it’s correct, true, useful, insightful, complex or wise, but as long as they come back and stay on the treadmill who cares?

Also, when your innovation is akin to “ShakeWeight” you want to go back to the drawing board…

I miss the Internet of the late 90s and early 00s

Meaningful. A real win, hard fought. Well done.

Thank you, found it, “HQ image”.

I never noticed that HD icon before when jumping into an image, thank you. Had never had an issue before but great to know. Thanks!

“All humans are equal, but some humans are more equal than others.”

I just watched gladiator to show the kid for the first time and for me it was the first time in 20 years, he was wonderful. I then watched “space camp” a few days ago which id never seen and Phoenix’s 11-year+old face jumped out of that.

Showing the kid “Sneakers” now, and the kid was blown away Phoenix had a brother (River) who was also an actor.

“it was at this moment, Bub realized why many of their online forum discussions may have ended with them being banned.”

but rich C-suite aliens managed to buy into the entire illogical chain.

When many decision-makers are incentivized to only care about their next quarterly bonus or stock grant, just like the subprime crisis, people will absolutely set their company up to fail regardless of the consequences. Companies have trained people they are disposable so why would they act in the long term interest of the company? Economics, that is, incentives, are undefeated in making people do things. It may not be what someone intends, but being naive about economics is why adults are needed in designing reward systems (from government policy to company programs).

Time to close that barn door now that they’ve all left. Nice work legislators!

Is gadget bridge OS? I’m not familiar with what it does/offers, etc.

Data privacy was somewhere Garmin was better than other providers when I looked at it, though that’s relative and also with how fast companies are coming out fascist maybe I’ve missed them losing any privacy advantage?

Garmin running watch. Never liked running but am a list checker and analyst; seeing my inactivity or progress drive me to be more consistent and active. I’m massively healthier and happier as a result. Also first one lasted 10 years, 1-week battery life. Just bought a replacement last year(face was scuffed up after 10 years but was still running like a champ). No idea why other watches have such crap battery life without offering more features than Garmin but it’s brought me joy, mental and physical health.

https://www.epi.org/publication/trump-is-pushing-to-include-risky-assets-like-crypto-and-private-equity-in-401ks-why-this-endangers-retirement-savers-and-the-economy/

The airlines operations, shit as they are in the US, agreed aren’t that “profitable” on the whole, with some exceptions like Delta and Alaska…but you’re leaving out the fact that their immensely profitable “division” let’s call it, where does that money go? Shareholder buybacks, stock grants–and certainly not making the flight experience suck less which might actually induce demand. Airlines are expensive and cyclical to run, but when they are profitable it’s not used prudently because they know they can just get a government bailout so why not pay off their rich friends in the meantime and juice stock price?

Your line of thinking is like saying all products in a business are equally profitable. Grocery stores have higher margin products and lower but it doesn’t mean they don’t need them all to compete in the marketplace–they can’t just have a loyalty program without the airline. If they could they would have long ago done it (and to a degree they have selling huge amounts of forward miles to banks) but at that point there would be no argument left that they are operating independently of government backing.

They were regulated utilities, then the champion of “free markets” Reagan, deregulated them leading to the front capitalism we have today; private gains and public-vscled bailout losses. Funny the government never gets called into the fat years to take dividend checks from airlines…

“If you didn’t hear back about the application, reach out to the company/recruiter/interviewer.” - they’re either not into you or swamped trying to get things lined up to move forward or both. Either way they don’t want to hear from you because you’re not getting it or they are working on it. Just pretend you didn’t get it and move on.

“Personalize your cover letter for each job application.” - no one has read that shit in years–and that was before AI slop started doing them all for people—and good companies don’t ask for them anymore as it’s cruel to waste applicants time on them.

“Ask for what you’re worth in the interview/during a promotion/counteroffer!” - this one comes with an asterix as it’s not always terrible advice, but well-run orgs gave a budget for your role, know what the job generally pays for the skills it requires and can’t go much outside of it at all or they’ll create pay equity issues which is against the law in most states if not federally, depending. I say all that and close by saying most companies aren’t well run, so they’re just trying to save money, but some are actually working withing a good system so don’t take it personally if they don’t or can’t offer you more.

Double entendre was like falling out of bed for him.

I would fly the hell out of an airline that had anything but single-minded, relentless shareholder profit in mind. It would be so easy to not suck as a carrier, employer and business when you allow yourself to consider some of those things as also important.

Goddamned Shakespeare!

New Zealand, island compounds in hawaii, mega yachts, security details…they’re causing and building the apocalypse they fear both economically and environmentally.

Someone else has always footed the bil their whole lives so why not gamble they’ll make it through?

The outcomes are inevitable, it’s just a matter of timing and which scifi flick is running that will most closely match what happens.

HHGTTG, Les Miserables or Don Quixote.