Let me guess, you're related to, or possibly are, this guy?

It was never near a donut shop so there were no cops in the area.

IBM's staplers were all black. I still have one in the kitchen drawer. So do several other family members.

That may have been the case until about 20-30 years ago, but now it's most of the world wanting rules-based order up against an increasingly isolationist US led, if you can call it that, by a rapidly dementing authoritarian. The position "leader of the free world" has been vacant for at least 20 years.

It's actually subtle Japanese humour, "let's show them a photo of a kidney stone and see how many people spot it".

Eight olympic-sized swimming pools.

Isn't that right next to Manchester, Guangdong?

That was my reaction as well, this isn't the farmers saying "we've finally got repair access to our machinery", this is John Deere saying "we've got our flesh-eating zombie layers working day and night to misuse these conditions and make sure those damn hayseeds never get anything useful from us".

Nah, they used Windows Calculator on a Pentium PC to work run the numbers. Also, that's the third set of figures, they couldn't use the first lot when it calculated that Linux had 956.00000000000079% desktop market share.

Or they realised that they're way over-staffed. How do you get 1,600 surplus people working on game development? Given that this is a reduction in force rather than closing down the product it presumably means they still have a crowd of thousands in the Xbox division.

Also, stay in an Ibis Budget, not the easily-identified NY Empire Hotel. They look the same everywhere on earth, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Marseille, Hamburg, always the same hotel no matter where you are.

Also, is "Mozilla's well-loved Pocket app" the same as "Mozilla's shove-it-down-your-throat-without-asking-you Pocket app"?

Looks more like "Microsoft and Amazon keep passing the same multibillion-dollar IOU around to keep their stock price up".

No, it's absolutely brilliant for attracting funding and press coverage. Every few months you get to re-announce quantum supremacy or the quantocalypse and people will practically shovel money and media attention at you. In all of modern technological history I don't think anything that doesn't (provably) do anything has had so many billions of dollars and thousands(?) of person-years of effort invested in it.

Personally, I'm just sitting back with popcorn to see what crazy reaction King Donald I will provide us with. Was it antifa? The radical left? Commies? Who knows, but it's bound to be entertaining.