Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by profiteering opportunism.

Does this already have a name? If not, can we call it “Riccitiello’s Law”?

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck anyone calling it a duck is antisemitic.

— The Israeli government

Embrace it. Teach these people how to use data URIs to “embed images into the HTML file”, then laugh when they burn even more tokens.

The Dunning-Cougar effect. I know this one and I’m never wrong.

Whoever thought of the meme probably doesn’t work in tech. A brand-new AI datacenter is not going to be left unguarded. Doubly so if there’s government data being stored or processed within it.

He got off the couch? That’s worrying; couches are inanimate.

The man’s getting a two-for-one special of losing both a flame war and a real war.

But have you considered that Peter Theil knows the antichrist?

He’s part of the “you will never need to vote again” admin, so… yes?

ZZ? ZC? Come on now, copilot. You have more options than simply killing it.

Or do one even better and stay silent while also threatening any media outlets that report the terms. Now you get weakness, confirmation, and lying all in one package with a ribbon bow on top.

Authoritarians need to project an appearance of peerless strength, intelligence, and infallibility. The people who fanatically believe their policies will directly lead to what was promised aren’t doing it on the basis of those policies, but instead on the trust of the confident strongman who made them.

Most people with that little money aren’t going to go out of their way and assume the risk of investing in new ventures. They’re going to put it in some managed or unmanaged fund recommended by someone else, and that money is going to be invested in something safe and presumably profitable on an infinite time scale, like a megacorp (or 500).

It would amazing if the everyday worker’s savings went towards aiding the local community in starting new businesses, but I wouldn’t count on that being the default.

Naw. Wear that shit with pride, then take a Snoop-level rip from a bong.

The researchers said it was “maddening” that such easy action to fight the climate crisis was not being taken, and said people should be angry. Stopping the leaks can even be free, given that captured gas can be sold – methane is the “natural gas” that fires power stations.

It’s maddening but expected.

When corporate decisions are based solely on pleasing investors, fixing a leak isn’t a priority. It might be a long-term investment that eventually pays for itself, but it comes with a front-loaded cost that diminishes the profits of the current quarter.

The only way to get them to care about the problem is if it’s actively unprofitable or comes with personal liability for the leadership, and the only way that will happen is with regulations.

In other words: “why about the survivability of the species when we can instead care about making our investor’s loins tingle?”

Eventually we’ll get his second term declared invalid, and roll back all of his EOs, legislation, etc., including pardons.

Let me fix that for you:

Eventually he’ll get his second term declared invalid, and use that as his reason for running for his third term.

They’re not awesome when your workflow revolves around the command line and you’re stuck choosing between wasting days trying to layer your configuration on top of the project devcontainer or giving up and using the unconfigured bash shell included.

The Darwin kernel is based on BSD… sort of. It’s a monstrosity hybridization of an ancient version of BSD and the Mach kernel.

You should do dev work in devcontainers anyway.

Devcontainers work for Visual Studio Code when developers are more than happy to click their way through running builds and debugging problems. But, as someone whose workflow is optimized for the command-line, they can fuck off.

You do know that people can have multiple motives, right?