Am a cat lover but this quote did sprint to mind ... If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember. -- Terry Pratchett

He's just a typical kid who was bullied who turns into one because that's all he emotionally knows. He behaves like a child because he was stunted as one. I have carrots the same colour as his face in my garden with more emotional stability and empathy than he could possibly ever show. And I'm sure Nixon and Johnson and Ike etc could drop an F bomb as well as anyone could, but in front of TV cameras? Guy has no sense of decorum or common manners (yeah, I'm old, like "mom used to go the bank with gloves on old", manners mattered once, kids). Plus, having been given millions from daddy probably didn't help his emotional growth either. TACO.

Only em-dashes can. En-dashes are used to denote "to" as in a range. For example, the play will be performed nightly at 8:00pm from June 4 – June 18. Also note the spaces before and after the en-dash; most good typographers only add a half "m" space—if any at all—on either side of an em-dash, though that choice is often dependant on the typeface being used.

And linguistic evolution is how we now get that sloppy mispronunciation of the word kilometre. It's pronounced/stressed like every other metric unit of measurement; e.g., millimetre, centimetre, nanometre, decimetre, etc. Not like barometer (even the ending is different to give you a hint). Now get off my typographer's lawn.

"Besiroglu argues to the naysayers that having agents do all the work will actually enrich humans, not impoverish them, through "explosive economic growth."

I know exactly who this will enrich, and I guarantee you it won't be "all humans". If you think Bezos, Zuck, Musk are pricks now, just wait until you see the next set of bro trillionaire AI bosses. Gutter level misery for most, privileged lives for few.

It won't ever be. We're in the process of deporting him elsewhere because we don't need smarty-pants around here. He's next after we remove the Pennsylvania-born doctor from her New England practice and ship her elsewhere. "Lisa Anderson" ... a foreign name if I ever heard one. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news...

In those sprint planning sessions. It'll take a year just to create JIRA task board with the Epics, without even breaking those down into stories and tasks. And the inevitable bugs? Someone is sure spouting nonsense with no understanding of how software development actually works and the timelines needed for even moderately complex tasks. Deluded.

WhatsApp? Acquisition. Oculus? Acquisition. Instagram? Acquisition. Facebook, sure, but you stole a lot of the UI/UX idea for other social platforms. Z is an idiot.

Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

"The windmills are driving the whales crazy. Obviously."

Fact check please in aisle one!

Krita. Rebelle. Stupid spelling checks.

I mean, good for a small group of indie devs who have managed to make just an amazing image editing app. I have used Pixelmator for a decade at least and love it. And yeah, I use Keita (and Rebel) to do all my digital artworks. At the same time, I hate that this amazing program is being swallowed by Apple and potentially as you say enshittified. Damn, this is one I hoped would never happen. FFS Apple, please let others innovate too?

Ditto. And I mean how snowflakey are we all that we can't lift the corner of this thing up 1/4" and press and hold a power button when we need to? Jeez, we're becoming like the bloated entitled passengers on the spaceship in Pixar's Eve who can barely lift a finger. (Now quiet all of you and someone pass me my Haribo gummy bears, they're just out of my reach.)

Not enough time to learn to play bridge, properly (to paraphrase our species greatest sage, Terry Pratchett).

He just doesn't understand anyone who isn't a fellow plutocrat, or acknowledge anyone who he can't manipulate with his vast wealth. Why does every tech bro billionaire become such an uncaring sociopath? Is there a course? Sociopathy 101 maybe?

"Jassy wrote in a lengthy missive to staffers that Amazon is making the changes to strengthen its corporate culture..." Culture has nothing to do with the space and everything to do with the people and how a company is managed. This call to "strengthen its corporate culture" is the biggest load of BS that comes out of any CEO's mouth. BS. Show me demonstrable, repeatable, concrete evidence this is the case when there are numerous studies showing exactly the opposite. BS. Like others have said, this is just a away to get people to quit voluntarily.