What a great comment!

“Unhoused” troubles me. It feels like it denudes the impact of a person having no place to call home. Is it supposed to destigmatize “homeless” in some way?

It was only a matter of time until they came for the 13th Amendment . . .

Funny you should ask. They’ve got a good model in a certain emerald mining scion turned chronic safety measure evader.

This stuck with me: Years ago, someone on Reddit described their middle school in the ‘70s having to have an assembly to stop a potlatch/arms race between kids stacking Izod/Lacoste shirts. There were well-off kids wearing three or more stacked Lacoste shirts every day, and poorer kids wearing cheap generic polo shirts under real alligator shirts to try to keep up.

It was the spirit of Homer Davenport. Rejoice and have another slice of marionberry pie.

You tell me. I have never understood that transaction. The tech was mostly vapor, and IIRC there weren’t really any paying customers.

Meanwhile, they also got ripped off on dumb shit like broadcast.com.

Here in the Valley, Yahoo became known in the ‘00s for ruining acquisitions. In particular, what they did to Flickr was an abomination; it should have become Instagram, but instead Yahoo ran two other photo-sharing services at the same time and let Flickr fester and not really progress.

That was the joke, but I trust it’s much improved by the explication.

It’s what a manchild thinks is sci-fi.

Dixon.

When I see actual GAAP accounting that demonstrates this, I’ll believe it. Until then, it’s Elon horse shit.

Def my fave of that series too.

His defense has been horrible. He’s already bound for heavy jail time. He might as well attempt a Hail Mary at this point and pray to peel off a juror to hang on some or all of the charges.

It’s unlikely to work, but it’s probably worth the throw at this point.

Random memory, but the early Norton suite on the Mac was like this amazing Swiss Army knife; it has fallen from great heights to the pit of hell.

In your first paragraph, are you referring to an assumption that the simulators would be running lots of what I think I’ve seen called grandfather simulations?

Thank you!

Commenting so I find out later whether to take this seriously.

CIA, DEA, SOA.