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Comment Re:Trump (Score 2) 136

No, this is a much more pedestrian situation.

Trump, being the pettiest shitgibbon alive, likes to get even with people who have refused to provide him with favors.

Since Ukraine refused to provide him with fake dirt on Biden in 2019, he's been waiting for a chance to "get even" with them.

Now he's got a chance, and he's more than happy to leave them to the boss of his KGB handlers.

Oh for fucks sake. Trump ran on pulling back from Ukraine involvement. It was loudly and clearly part of his campaign. Average people want less involvement with foreign conflicts, not more:

According to Morning Consult’s U.S. Foreign Policy Tracker Index from January of 2023, nearly 40% of voters favor isolationism, while 30% want stability, and 17% want engagement. Among Democrats, 33% favor isolationism, 33% want stability, and 20% want engagement. Among Republicans, 45% favor isolationism, 28% want stability, and 15% want engagement. While these findings do indicate a divide between the parties on the issue, in both cases isolationism was the top answer or tied for the top answer. Neither side wants to be the world’s police.

Comment This is a middle manager culling (Score 3, Insightful) 53

As was the case with the May layoffs, Microsoft is looking to reduce the number of layers of managers that stand between individual contributors and top executives, the person said.

MS is in no way hurting. They made a profit of $26 Billion in March, far ahead of Wall Street projections.

As other companies are also specifically targeting that mid-management layer, this is a possible sign that the Cult of the MBA may be waning.

Comment Re:Not good at math (Score 5, Insightful) 52

Millions of people go to Vegas every year... so I think there are a lot of folks in that "not very good at math" grouping.

Most of the people that go to Vegas know they're not going to win anything. My grandparents used to go every year, and that vacation was their annual highlight. They set aside a budget, enjoyed themselves blowing it on the tables, then enjoyed the hotels and the shows. This was the early 60's, mind you, the height of the Rat Pack era when Sinatra and Dean Martin were still playing there, and there was a mobbed-up mystique about the place to the WWII generation. My grands knew they weren't going to win anything. They just enjoyed the thrill of it all. It was the "adult" Disneyland, a bit of naughty fun for people that survived the skies and fields of Europe and Asia, and as far as they were concerned, "fuck you, I'll blow my spare money as I see fit".

Comment Re:So basically phones, then (Score 1, Insightful) 115

Specifically women? Citation needed.

Most men still have a PC simply for gaming, if nothing else. Women don't give a shit about gaming. And the phone is the natural instrument for their Instagraming.

My wife has a nice laptop that she barely touches. She'll pull it out every once in a blue moon, but she and all the women she knows use two things primarily: their phones, and their tablets for reading. The smartphone was the perfect product for females. It fits the way they communicate. A lot of men would be fine with plain texting, email, and maybe some IRC. Women crave that constat, content-filled social connection.

Comment So basically phones, then (Score 2, Informative) 115

The shrinking userbase doesnâ(TM)t have jack shit to do with 11â(TM)s requirements, and everything to do with women using their phones for everything now. It was silly to even attempt that argument.The writer went on a Windows rant when this shift has been predicted for 25+ years. There are kids with $500+ smartphones that have never touched a computer.

Comment Re:Quite a bit of culture in Japan is ossified (Score 1, Insightful) 85

For those that have attended a Christian wedding ceremony there's often a biblical passage read about the need for the man and woman to break ties with their parents and create a new family.

- But why should I give a crap what it says in your cult's shitty book full of rape, murder, incest, and other bullshit?

Comment Re:Data centers create almost no long-term jobs. (Score 1) 49

A data center is built by itinerant mechanical and electrical workers from out of the area. Once built, data centers create almost no local jobs.

Data Centers are no different than any other complex facility: once built, they have to be physically managed and maintained. There has to be some people there.

Comment Re:No, it isn't "stressing out the local community (Score 1) 49

It's stressing out the "Alliance for Affordable Energy" and a couple other activist groups, for whom 404 appears to be shilling instead of reporting.

More propaganda masquerading as news.

404 was created by a bunch of ex-Vice guys after Motherboard went Tits Up. It's a political advocacy group fronted by a blog. That doesn't necessarily mean that they can't write things that turn out to be valuable or insightful, but know up front that their agenda comes first, the same way agendas come first in any politically-centered enterprise (Jacobin Mag, National Review, the New Republic, etc etc). They are, without fail, always going to play their particular angle first and foremost.

Comment Re:"Linux is a Cancer" (Score 2) 68

I wonder if Bill Gates giving away his money has the same satisfaction as Linus Torvalds knowing he made the world a better place

History will show which one actually gets remembered as a good person and my bet is on Linus

Lesson I learnt... chasing money ends poorly.

JJ

"History" won't give a flying shit. Great men in history... and women... have rarely been "good". Steve Jobs will be remembered far more than Torvalds ever will, and he was absolute garbage as a person. Like it or not, history cares about winners. Genghis Khan will always be remembered more than, say, Mother Theresa.

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