And yes, yes, before anyone else says it, "I'd only get about 10 minutes use of that at my age." There, happy now? :)

Gimmicky? Forget that silliness. Until Apple lets me have Lacy Lennon dancing in front of me 24/7, I can't see the use. Kidding, not kidding.

I'll give you $20, giving you a massive % profit. Easy money.

Fellow oldie here, waiting for the avocado toast remark. I know you're just kidding though trying to make point.

You and I both know, if your grew up in the same decades I did, toast has nothing to do with. If I bought a house, say in a nice suburb of Toronto for 92,000 in 1992, and adjusting for inflation etc it should now be worth about $285,000, so there's no logical reason I should be able to list it at 2.09 million, but I could.

It's pure greed driving that gap. Real wages haven't risen in the US since 1970 adjusted for inflation while productivity has grown 400%. If the average US wage earner had gotten the same raises that CEOs make, the average US worker would earn $160,000/year and not mid-40s. And the average percentage of CEO to average worker pay wouldn't be over 300x instead of the 20x it was in the 1970s.

But I agree, avocado toast, seriously? What are these youngsters thinking? Peanut butter is fine.

Affinity 2022 ... "Ain't nobody acquiring us."

Affinity 2024 ... "I am thrilled to announce that Affinity is joining the Canva family."

I left Adobe back at C3 or so when they went subscription after using Adobe products since Illustrator was called Illustrator 88. I'll leave Affinity the minute they do as well.

You're missing legal and factual implications of the bolded part, I guess. That's the crime, it's called fraud, using numbers you know are not right to obtain loans. It's illegal. And he got caught, charged, and convicted of that crime, fraud, and now has to pay back the difference in what he would have gotten vs what he did when he committed that fraud. That's the penalty in this case for breaking the laws of New York state. Financial institutions perform due diligence based on the statements that the applicant provides in which they guarantee they are not lying about stuff, which he did. Was that a clear enough explanation?

Also, even as a Canadian I know there are at least five restrictions on free speech with regards to the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution, it's not a blanket "say whatever you want with no legal repercussions" kind of thing. Can you name the five major restrictions to "free" speech in the US?

The question goes like this ...

You're in the middle of a fertility clinic when a fire breaks out. Two long corridors stretch out on either side of you.

Down one corridor is a 7 year old child screaming at you to save her. Down the other corridor is a tray of 100 frozen embryos.

You only have the time to run down one corridor and get out safely. Which corridor do you run down?

I guess politicians in Alabama would grab the tray of frozen embryos and let the kid die. I mean, 100 to 1, am I right?

The fact that they quoted any one religious text to make this decision means they do not understand law.

So Conifex thinks that bit coin mining is a more important use of that generated electricity than providing that same electricity to 570,000 homes and the families that live there? That BC Hydro can just wave a wand and create that additional energy? Are they really that psychopathic? Oh, yes, capitalism without externalities. Right. My bad. Back to the re-education camp for me.

Based on demographics like population, age ranges of people living in that municipality, overall distribution of wealth (including wealth and not just reported income), etc. More towards school aged, or districts with seniors or systemically disadvantaged regions, less for wealthier enclaves? Property taxes are perhaps another opportunity for fast taxation as well.

Are you seriously suggesting that Intuit spends roughly $2.6 *BILLION* a year on R&D? Researching what? That is a lot of corporate hookers and blow.

The whole PR blurb could have been generated in a random B2B bullshit generator or a bad AI chat session. Grow some cajones, Xerox, and just say "layoffs".

Montana and North Carolina Lawmakers Just Came for Pornhub, So Now You Can’t

Story then opened with "After months of edging, Montana and North Carolina lawmakers have finished off Pornhub."

Come on, those are good, right?

I've been using Apple computers since my Apple machine said simply "II" on the case. With Apple now pushing Metal onto developers, which means coding for yet another low-level, low-overhead hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader, I'm not sure they chose the right thing. This whole proprietary BS Apple likes to pull causes them more headaches than it's worth. It may be something that pans out, but ask a lot of AAA game devs and they're not into it and don't want to support it. Apple just needs to pull a MS and buy a handful of higher end AAA studios and make them make games for them.

I must've forgotten to turn off my warp drive before locking the ship in the Lagrange level of the the parking lot. Black Friday sales and all, had to literally park off Earth to get to the mall. I'll have one of the crew shut that down in a jiffy.

Ontario has said it'll change, and go to one time, but only if New York State changes (and possibly Michigan, I don't recall all the details). NY wants to as well and has voted to, but Congressional approval needed.