Comment Re:No surprises (Score 4, Insightful) 69
Comment I look forward to their next ChatGPT experiment (Score 5, Funny) 51
It's fine if you do it in a parking lot. It will be easy to hose off afterwards.
Comment Re:First Amendment (Score 2) 130
If Obama had sponsored as meme coin when he was in office your brain would have exploded. Your hypocrisy so toxic it's surprising you haven't died from it by now.
Comment Re:Dear Gov Newsom ... (Score 1) 130
Do you think that endorsing terrorism is a joke?
You are a sick fuck.
Comment Re:Nothing changes (Score 0) 156
Maybe someone who is an outsider will start monitoring for toxic ingredients in the food supply, but for the foreseeable no government entity or business will check anything. Even if problems are detected everyone will keep quiet because they are afraid of the wrath of the Orange Tyrant and his brain worm rotted sidekick RFK Jr.
It's a certainty that Trump sill eats a mostly McDonald's diet because he has lifelong food paranoia. It also extremely likely the version he gets is completely different then what normal people eat. They use real McDonald's packaging but use less-toxic ingredients, and much lower amounts of added salt. His health is so bad that if he was mainlining real junk food he would have keeled over by now.
It's not impossible that an animatronic version is in the works. The public unveiling of the zombie Mitch McConnell may be a trial run of the future immortal President for Life Permanent Fearless Leader of America Forever USA.
(Note: for the MAGA/Republican/brain-dead true-believers, the previous sentence was low quality satire, not a threat against Trump. See 8647)
Comment Re:They worried about Florida Man (Score 1) 49
Comment Re:How about fruit (Score 1) 159
The problem isn't when they're picked, it's the cultivar. They're optimized for even ripening, longevity (thick skins), and truly extreme yields.
This is why heirloom tomatoes are so much more appealing then generic chain grocery tomatoes. If you get heirlooms the shoulders, the part near the stem, will not necessary look as ripe as the rest of the fruit. Breeding for uniform ripeness and thick skins decreases flavor and texture.
Buying heirlooms at chains, even the high price ones, is no guarantee of good flavor. The intrinsic shorter shelf life and thinner skins make the supply chain/shipping effects more noticeable.
If you get small cherry/grape tomatoes, even at a big chain, you will have a much better shot at getting good flavor and texture. You loose having a nice big juicy slice, but the flavor is much more likely to be good.
Never refrigerate tomatoes, it ruins them. Better to have them get overripe/soft then the flavor/texture destruction of refrigeration below 7-10C/44-50F.
Comment It kind off happened already (Score 1) 79
What were the repercussions? Almost nothing. They paid a fine unrelated to how much money they stole and promised not to do it again. No individual received any direct compensation.
Just like a class action suit. Normal business practice. Nothing to see here, move along.
Comment $3 Trillion off the books commitments (Score 5, Interesting) 90
Investor Michael Burry of The Big Short fame issued a fresh warning on the AI boom, observing that the hyperscalers leading the charge are amassing $3 trillion in financial commitments that aren't reflected in their balance sheets.
"These liabilities, I say, are, in essence, in hypergrowth mode,"
... Burry singled out Amazon, Meta Platforms, Alphabet, Microsoft and Oracle for proceeding with enormous capital expenditures.
Michael Burry was of the figures in The Big Short which depicted the 2008-2010 financial meltdown. Burry and a few others understood the over-leveraging in housing market lending and correctly predicted it's crash, so his track record is very good.
The accounting trick this time is that the contractual commitments don't show up when they are made.
The pack of hyperscalers is holding $1.2 trillion in future lease commitments along with $1.5 trillion in commitments to purchase AI-related hardware and equipment, such as memory chips. The latter can be kept off a firm's balance sheet until the products ultimately reach the hyperscalers and each party fulfills its obligations under current accounting rules.
The crucial difference this time is the explosive growth of the National Debt created by tax cuts for billionaires and a ruinous unnecessary foreign war. Ordinary tax payers will be the ultimate victims if history is any guide.