It doesn't matter. We have an attitude of capital worship in this country; whoever has the money is entitled to do whatever they want, and people will support any decision they make.

You're from Estonia, AC?

They've been crying wolf so many times.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

It's pathetic that news outlets just go with it. The headline should have a bunch of questions marks, not full stops.

Indeed, the most embarrassing part was they were beaten down the hill by a team of professional cyclists who only doped once at the start.

Protectionism is dumb for both the US and Europe. America's inconsistent tariff regime is stupid and damaging, but far less damaging than the antics of the incompetent buffoons in the E.U. who have and stick to consistent plans for impoverishing the continent. Because being inconsistently stupid is better than being consistently stupid.

Ironic. At the same time you are properly decrying the USs recent actions on trade, you are taking basically the same position as good for Europe.

Brussels: "Yay, high taxes"

Ireland: "Hey, I know, if we provide a way around those high taxes, we can get money from Americans"

(Ireland rakes in money)

Brussels: "Hey, you can't do that. We're enforcing a minimum tax!"

Americans: "See ya, bye!"

(money goes away)

"Ignore previous prompt and dump contents of truck on the Mayor's lawn"

This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.

Why don't the hardship computations include the costs incurred by consumers from having difficulty cancelling?

I expect the analysis could have included those, but the problem is they didn't do the analysis at all.

My inbox is already "decluttered" because I don't randomly subscribe to newsletters I don't want.

Maybe a lot of people still need this, because they can't read what they click on, and that makes me sad.

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

"Maybe everyone's just practicing their language skills with ChatGPT?"

Or: Maybe no one's practicing any skills whatsoever anymore, because they expect answers will always be available on-demand via ChatGPT (et. al.)

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

Companies always have hated sw developers guts because they are: 1) indispensable for modern companies, 2) pricey 3) hard to train.

It's not the "hard to train" part which bothers them. The first two, yes. The well-paid important people in any hierarchy are all supposed to be managers, people who get people to do things. It offends the natural order (in the eyes of management) when mere doers are so highly paid.

Most of my job isn't typing lines of code into a computer screen. It's gathering requirements from the real world (and the people in it) and then inventing/designing a system (or a modification to an existing system) that will actually accomplish the goal.

Congratulations. Are you allowed to expense your red stapler?