If anything, I downplayed the reality. It's actually much worse than this, as evidenced by the fact that those books are data points on a graph, and the trend has been going in a specific direction for a while.

So it's not so much the spectrum as it is the trend. And it's going more extreme.

Also, fun part. A few years ago they started publishing male literature in the same vein. Of course for men, that sort of wish fulfillment is "man becomes very powerful, gets a harem of women falling all over him as he solves their problems with this power, with women not engaging in brutal competition with each other, instead bickering like a bunch of guys in a friend group". The equally delusional male dream.

Its popularity is but a tiny fraction of the women's relevant literature, because men are visual. Our porn is pictures, video, etc. Women are conceptual, so their porn is literary.

And just as male porn has been getting more and more carefully curated to specifics of ultimate male fantasy utterly incompatible with reality, same has been happening on female side. So milking farm is actually pretty tame compared to most of that particular side of the spectrum. Just visit those massive female romantasy reddits, and you'll find books that sell hundreds of thousands to millions of copies that make being a prostitute jerking minotaurs off for money only to have a Pretty Woman style relationship with that punter look like a wholesome 1950s family picnic.

These are just Banks. There's no cryptocurrency involved here otherwise the ledgers would be permanent and untraceable and they wouldn't have been able to just seize the money.

The reason they were able to get the money back is because they are getting it back from centralized authorities who control the asset. You might as well just put your money in a bank unless of course you are laundering it because of crime. Which is the real product crypto provides.

Yes. Very much so. And all the large tech enterprises are not either.

Somebody online said Chicago start announcing prefixes on the L3Harris net that didn't belong to them.

True? dunno. "developing..."

Selling 30% down from the peak is pretty good. Selling at exactly the peak is really hard.

The only question is whether the stock will go up from now or not. If this scandal is the only problem, it will eventually go up. If people stop buying video cards, that is when you should worry.

Sure. Not a direct dependency. But if it turns out L3Harris is dependent on O364 (with some delay), that would make it an indirect one.

That's true, but if they hire another CEO, his modus operandi will be enshittification. So I can see why NVidia employees don't want that.

No one is a 10. 10s don't exist.

Point 3: McCain was factually not born in the USA.

She's not young either, she's about 50 years old. If he just wants a looker, he can do better.

Sad as that is, yes. But this is a step to make regulation more likely, even if only in Europe.

Oh, and now the White House claims no connection to Microslop. With the current probability of them lying, I would call that conformation.

Usually you get the people holding it to hand it over, for example another exchange or somebody that got arrested.

Canada is apparently not affected at least that is the reporting here in Europe.

But this may well be some indirect dependency on Microslop systems. For a direct dependency (which would be illegal) the shutdown would already have happened a day earlier, hence I guess that is not it. But IT has gotten way too complex and unintended consequences wayyyyy to likely. My bet is we are seeing one here.

Indeed.