What is the maximum value of moral turpitude?

FTFY

Kind of the joke I was looking for, but I just wish the YOB would finish imploding and go away. Unfortunately I feel like it's too late. This trend started a long time ago, and the YOB is only the peak so far. Now that the precedent has been established and the paths to harvesting the government are well established, it's not like they'll stop after the YOB disappears.

Instead, whatever stupid stuff the YOB says today, we wind up discussing it until he says something more stupid tomorrow.

(Heck, notwithstanding his "You're fired" catchphrase, he hasn't even fired Hegseth yet. I didn't expect him to last out this week.)

Is the lack of interest in this story evidence of how Zuck flies under the radar? Absence of evidence as evidence of "You can get away this this scam"?

But the story is expiring now, so no reason to consider solutions...

Yes, but not his bankruptcies. That's something his accountants learned after his five or six bankruptcies. The YOB always demands his money up front and he never puts any of his own money into anything. The risk goes to the "investors" in the increasingly worthless brand (which I now decline to use). Mostly makes me wonder where the YOB is squandering the loot...

Not a bad FP branch though I think there was more room for Funny.

On the serious side, I think this picture is not worth a thousand words. The medical application really calls for chemical analysis. Even genetic analysis if an actual doctor wants to know what is really going on in there.

But I mostly wanted an excuse to cite Toire No Himitsu . Sorry, but it hasn't been translated into English and that seems quite unlikely, too. It would probably be "The Secrets of Toilets". Mostly about the development of the washlet. It's Volume 22 in one of Gakken's series of books about secrets. (Currently passing Volume 224...) Each volume has a corporate sponsor. That's Toto in the case of Volume 22. (I've read the entire series, starting with "The Secrets of Hamburgers" sponsored by McDonald's.)

Thanks for clarifying. Reminds me of some books I've read about fonts... Sounds like you don't need the citations.

But I was going for Funny.

Is it funny because of "TDF"? Even with the AIs I couldn't figure that one out.

I think it's a complaint about how to spell "kerning", but I don't understand the funny moderation.

But kerning is not an issue for most of the Japanese characters. However if you want to get beyond kaisho, then the situation quickly becomes intractable. Gyosho is hard and I don't think I've ever seen a computer version--but sosho is much worse. The flowing script is often much too pretty to read. Even if you have the kaisho side-by-side it is often hard to find matching features.

I presume you're referring to the 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal? I'll point out this was something perpetrated by the Chinese industry, not American. It was knowingly covered up with the complicity of the Chinese government to prevent it from embarrassing the ongoing Olympics. Only when the scandal became impossible to cover up did the CCP take any action.

As of December 2025, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and former Mayor London Breed have both expressed praise for China and the relationship between San Francisco and Chinese cities.

Quoted against the censor trolls.

My take is that young impressionable people are especially good at learning to think like machines. I even think that is not a good thing, no matter what the generative AI tells me.

Why are you propagating the vacuous Subject? Also masks your point, though I can't really figure out what it is.

Did remind me of a twisted joke. The US basically started on a negative foot. The focus was on rejecting the king. It actually took a while to start developing positive philosophies. I think the best effort was Lincoln's "government of the people, by the people, and for the people".

There was a transitional period when it became government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1%, but now we are moving to government of a few giant corporate cancers with AIs, by the Donald, for the (mostly shadowy) puppeteers. Or maybe the first and third are reversed? Too soon to figure out what sort of mess we've gotten ourselves into.

My version of optimism about that thar' veep:

"He couldn't sell candy to a baby. But he might be able to steal the baby's candy if he catches it napping."

It's like the YOB can't stop shooting himself in the foot. Then he blames the shoe company and takes ownership! Even though he never wore that brand of shoe. "The light was better over here!"

To make it a proper joke for Slashdot I have to note that the YOB shot himself in the foot using his preferred programming language. But then I'm stumped because I cannot imagine the YOB writing a program of any sort. Which language is best for shooting senile self in foot?

(I say YOB because I reject the brand as poison. Like Exxon and Amazon. How many guesses do you need for YUGE Orange Buffoon?)