the first amendment prohibits compelled speech. OS's are written in languages. Requiring age verification is compelled speech. Acting like this is hard to solve is some kind of media scam.

corporations are not allowed to have monopolies so they use the government to create de facto monopolies via regulations.

they took an amazing word 'meta' associated it with their shitty company. now that word has a shit stain on it. i find that very annoying.

no not at all. we are laying people and replacing them with AI. You should buy more of our stock. We are doing great!

i remember just before the dot com crash there was this company whose value shot up. The company had the brilliant idea of putting ads on screen savers. Well, the screen saver only goes on when the person leaves so no one it looking at a screen. Anyway the dot com crash happened about six months after I noticed that.

I agree. i could find anything worth watching last night so I watched the Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart. It was great! He has great lines like: "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it".

in real capitalism badly managed companies go bankrupt. that is how its supposed to work. if the government supports badly managed companies then they continue to be badly managed.

in large companies the ambitious out compete the competent for control. when they have power they don't know what do to. i think this happens because the competent spend their time doing their job and getting shit done. I am not sure what the ambitious do but whatever it is impresses management.

their websites shows they are hiring for a bunch of programming positions. why hire programmers if the AI is writing all the code.

we are at the "smell your own farts and tell everyone how great they smell" stage of collapse of the empire.

I see they use "leading" now instead of "expert" because the they beat that horse to death.

the next managed release of a manufactured disease by the interagency.

there is a secret system of "laws" called the rules based order which require login information get sent to government servers in the US. they can then decide if they want to users to be banned from accessing the services of any company that does any business in the US.

they cannot say we are laying people off because sales are dropping because of the recession then the stock price will fall. Instead they say AI is so great we are replacing people with AI so you should invest more with us.

they will force bad people into the class with good people then in order to pass them they will dumb the it down. some people are not good at math so should not do math.