...that China has abandoned capitalism. The "owners" could at least collect money for the company with a sale. Funny that China should be so upset that the US is doing to China what China did to Jack Ma.

Nah, that website is hideous retro. Part of the business is designing/making Klein bottles to sell for a profit If he makes enough money to cover the entirety of his living expenses, he can probably charge a little extra to contract a web designer to revamp the appearance of the sales website every 4(?) years.

He's essentially trying to sell mathematical glass sculpture. You don't get the *wow* experience showcasing art in a shitty 2D photograph in a basement workshop.

Two years ago, with the skyrocketing inflation, the Fed felt the only way to properly address the economic situation was by jacking up interest rates. We were in an era of "free money", where cash was easily available for new tech like IPOs, SPACs, M&As, bitcoin, woke Marvel Phase IV movies, and stoopid level, streaming company content production, . Its an end of an era; no more free money available to throw at sketchy gambles. So yeah, I can't believe there are still investors with money to piss away.

There are still investors with money to burn on the next pets.com .

We don't have suburban human children (under 12) wandering NYC as they please without some form of adult supervision. The smartphone is basically bringing the world to the child's doorstep. Most animal species with offspring that takes time to develop are somehow sequestered from the rest of their local environment. The only question is whether to cripple all internet access from a smart phone, or to allow access to specific apps. For example, I wouldn't think a wikipedia only app to be such a terrible thing. Would it be so terrible to add games to the phone that are legally/engineered not allowed to be accessible to the internet or allow data to be collected from an app vendor?

No, but by definition, it would mean your child originated from an asshole.

To this day, I am still really sad Gina Carano not only acted like a total piece of shit online, but doubled down on it. I really liked her and wished she'd just swallow some pride, apologize, and earn a fuck-ton of money...

Its Hollywood. Its possible that some of Carano's positions stem from her off stage interactions with Disney execs, and she may feel that she cannot share them with the public. (For openers, they definitely have enough money that they can sue her, if she cannot validate her unrecorded public statements in court.)

I was under the impression that Google itself was just a big infrastructure company for Alphabet; Google just was a custodian for its hugely profitable established divisions (cloud, youtube, advertising backoffice), and a staff pool for Alphabet's startups. But wow, Sundar Pichai does not look like the CEO who can squeeze operating efficiency from established industry behemoths, and he sure as hell is no Satya Nadella. Google's probably the first case where a company needs to be broken up for its shareholders, not because its an industry monopoly.

More like the next IBM (and I mean that pejoratively). (What company twenty five years ago was the monopolistic monster of the computer tech industry, and today literally did not grow value as a company???)

Looks like the Alphabet board really needs a managerial shakeup, while nuking Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai; he is no Satya Nadella.

It is mindboggling how Google went from being an industry leader in cloud computing to like #3, behind Amazon and Microsoft. Google's nowhere to be found on the AI front. If one presumes Youtube as a separate entity from Google, what the F does Google do today, besides advertising monetization???

^quite^quite reputable^

Alphaville is a financial blog. It appears to have either been bought out by Financial Times (of London). Believe it or not, FT.org was, once upon a time, a quite financial paper. Or perhaps, Alphaville contracted FT to put up this stupid blog article, and then somehow got it posted on slashdot.org, which is the weirdest form of SEO I've ever seen.

Very bizarre form of advertising, I must say.

I blame Biden for supplying the artillery rounds and guided bombs to blow up Gazan children. And waffling when Israel attacks ambulances and medical facilities (war crime).

It doesn't make the latter more credible. Two lies are still lies. We're not reduced to believing either lie. Truth may lie in a third, yet unconjectured, possibility.

And every couple of centuries, scientists vacillate over the process of physical existence. "We had a 'big bang', there was no 'big bang', the universe will spread out infinitely as the stars burn out, no, the universe will eventually contract into a 'big bang', yadda yadda yadda".

Its quite likely that mammals could not have come into "prominence" unless the previous apex organisms on planet Earth (dinosaurs) were eradicated. Which then means you (mammal->primate) could have never come about. You hate your existence? Then why would you hate God for allowing you to come into existence? (Presuming of course, there is even a God...)

Maybe if you realize that all organized religion is based on stories, such as the Flood, which are untrue (thus bullshit), you wouldn't go about hating an entity for something it didn't do. You should be "hating" religion, and the people who perpetrate a construct of lies in order to manipulate the behavior of other people.

Atheism, by default, has to be a belief, not a fact.
Facts you can prove. You cannot prove that God doesn't exist.

Atheism *is* a religion; its a religion that believes there is no omnipotent being that created you or the universe (and optionally that such an omnipotent being would give a ratfuck about your opinion or how you behave). They can make arguments they believe demonstrates there is no God, but they cannot prove there is no God.

If you want to hang out with non-believers, its the agnostics that accept that we cannot prove or disprove that God exists. The scientific method is about accepting as truth only what you can demonstrate as truth.