If people didn't love them they wouldn't sell them. People around me are obsessed with giant trucks.

Ok, shut down data centers and AI farms first. Then I'll consider it.

Ads? Never saw that many, now I only see ONE on the page at all.

Guess you haven't heard of Brave and are still being tracked all over the internet,then.

The US has been afraid of those "nefarious Asians" for over a hundred years now.

Replace it with homegrown spyware

If it does cause cancer, it would have to be a very weak cause -- otherwise, the many studies done would clearly show it.

In any event, that kind of *is* what this case is about -- there's not really any significant evidence that RoundUp does cause cancer (at best, it's a *maybe*), and that sort of evidence is found in scientific studies, not in courtrooms.

But that lack of evidence won't stop the lawsuits -- sure, it makes the lawsuits weaker, but every person with cancer is a potential lawsuit against Monsanto, and juries don't necessarily *need* evidence that RoundUp causes cancer -- instead, an expert witness gets up there and tells them it's possible, and they think of the big faceless corporation and the person dying of cancer and their heartstrings make a decision rather than the evidence.

Monsanto may be a $15B/year company, but even that's not enough to pay all the people who accuse it of causing their cancers. And yet RoundUp is a vitally important tool for farmers worldwide, often used instead of nastier pesticides *known* to cause cancer -- even if it was found to cause cancer, it's so important to agriculture worldwide that we'd probably keep on using it.

They are doing everything they can to drive me away from their platforms. My main use of FB at this point is to stay in communication with some people and a couple of special interest groups I run.

In other words, "MS has invested so much into the AI boondoggle that everyone had better jump on board before I lose my bonuses and stock options."

Well, that isn't too hot. My kiln, in my barn, was running a firing last night that got just about that hot for cone 6 pottery and it can do cone 10, even hotter.

It'll take more than a furnace that can do what the average potter's kiln can do before it sounds impressive.

Good luck with that with the cuts they've made to NASA and the general contempt for science in this administration. It would likely just be a way to funnel huge amounts of taxpayer money to a few favored companies. Like, ummmm, SpaceX.

And militarize it.

The corruption runs deep with Trump Inc.

The next admin will be doing nothing but repair.

Forcing me to switch to win11 and buy all new hardware and do it at a time of ridiculously high prices for things like RAM may push me to linux at home.

He violated the rule that if you want to dominate the market you don't tell the market what to do, you meet what the market wants.