Quarterly reporting makes company leadership focus on short term gains over the long term health of the company, leading to frequent layoffs, selloffs and other actions that hurt both the employees and the economy as a whole.

“If you want peace, prepare for war” is literally a 2500 year-old sentiment. If you were a mugger, whom would you rob, a guy who walks around saying how he has no means to defend himself, or a guy who is armed to the teeth?

I loved that book, I should re-read it.

Some people, mostly jokingly, think that the timeline where Jeb Bush got elected president is the best timeline. JD Vance’s would be the worst.

Those vets telling the soldiers “You will be like me in 20 years” over and over should be pretty painful.

I think that’s how much the world’s countries spent on oil subsidies this year alone.

Meanwhile, estimated cost of reaching global zero carbon emissions is just 17 trillion dollars.

Allegations of Sexual Abuse Against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Sam Altman, a prominent figure in the artificial intelligence field, has been accused of sexually abusing his sister during their childhood in Clayton, Missouri. The allegations came to light through a lawsuit filed on Jan. 6 by the Mahoney Law Firm in Glen Carbon, Illinois.

In the lawsuit, it is claimed that the abuse occurred between 1997 and 2006, starting when Altman was 12 years old and his sister, Ann, was only 3 years old. The abuse allegedly continued until Ann was 11 years old and Altman was an adult.

I remember that time Facebook had a random text in a page saying “This text should never be visible in production” or something like that.

He’s playing Durak, where if you are the last one left with cards in your hands, you are the titular Fool the game is named after.

Citizenship does exist under tyranny, but instead of having rights, you get duties.

“I don’t want to live in a better world that was created by someone else.” Silicon Valley

They have a breeding kink and the means to realise it. You are kink shaming them.

/s before the rest of the downvotes arrive.

I have literally had this argument, but it was about shrinking population growth. “We will just have more immigrants.” From where, outside of West Africa and Central Asia, all the countries have fertility rates below replacement levels and even those countries’ levels are dropping.

let self = this;

If he wanted people to like him, he would have solved global hunger. The UN told him that they needed only 6 billion dollars to do that. The idiot asked for an itemized list and when he was provided with one, he quit the conversation.

I love that the FSTL are owning their fame.

There is a scene in a TV show called Person of Interest where an AI communicates with a younger character in a high frequency tone older characters around her can’t hear. When I first watched it, I heard it. Now I don’t.

The farmers should take a page from the European one’s book and block the roads. Or even better, drop tons and tons of manure on the White House lawn.

Is Typhoid Mary getting a statue as well?