All the quotes I gave are real quotes from them, so not a lie.

You can offer more quotes, as an attempt of strawman, but none of them you gave invalidate the quotes I gave. So now you want to discuss some new quotes, without addressing the quotes I presented that contradicts your original claims?

LOL. seriously, I'm laughing right now. Because I'm baffled where you thought this was going to go.

Car companies mostly do, except for certain features that cost them money on an ongoing basis (like map subscriptions, anything involving cellular data, etc.). And you absolutely can buy appliances that don't have a software component (and should, because the ones that do are likely to be a security nightmare).

At this time, AMD stock is down about 1% after being up nearly 10% in overnight trading after they released their results.

I've said it before and I will say it again: If these companies were in any other industry, you wouldn't be able to buy their stock. They are printing money faster than the U.S. government.

Yet every time they announce record earnings, sometimes double what they did the previous year, morons sell because the end is nigh. Never mind their projections for the coming year say they can't keep up with demand. This time it truly is the top of the market.

And I wouldn't have if y'all hadn't propagated the Subject and tricked me into looking at an AC context. But I only saw a few words from AC and they were void and without form or meaning.

Or fix the bug in the History menu for recovering recent tabs. (But perhaps that was a transient failure overlooked in the regression testing?)

Glad to see the story got so many Funny comments, but I think yours was an overlooked candidate in the race for best joke. I only found it on the search for "blame" because I'm waiting to see who the YOB blames for this. Heads will roll, and the YOB's own punkin' head can't possibly be among them.

But all of the options seem so pleasant. Hegseth has been worth firing since his first day on the job, but how can the YOB spin his own war as Hegseth's fault without mentioning those pesky Iranians? Actually lots of cabinet members with heads worth rolling, but what lies could persuade anyone, even the YOB himself, that they are at blame for this pesky election fiasco? Or I could dream big? Maybe the YOB will try to blame Vance and that could finally trigger them thar' cowards to invoke the 25th Amendment? (I still think that one of Biden's mistakes was not taking the 25th for a test spin and thus setting the stage for Harris to run as the incumbent. What if Biden had arranged for special periodic cabinet meetings without the president where the consideration of the 25th could be added to the agenda?)

Oh well. Mostly just glad to see what happened and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the YOB suddenly announces a bunch of pardons and his retirement, flying away in his YUGE jet. Or even if the YOB goes away via implosion.

Also I'd like to see the accounting on how much money Musk wasted, especially in Texas. Not a genius by any stretch, but a better gambler on average. (And I still laugh whenever I notice a Tesla with the hood logo removed.)

Closing joke based on the famous Churchill quote? Americans will eventually do the right thing after trying everything else. Sometimes even trying it twice.

And when they lose their phone? Or it's stolen? Or dropped in the ocean during a vacation?

This is absolutely a stupid idea and needs to be killed off right quick. A single point of failure is no way to manage your money.

Hmm... I just added an attempted joke about North Korean one-way taikonauts... But the story is pretty much expired on Slashdot Savings Time.

Pretty good, though I thought Yu and Mi (which you didn't use) are Korean names. Wiggle room for using North Korean taikonauts as more expendable. With one-way tickets?

They have about 2 months to find enough 3XL tactical vests for deputized ICE agents they pull from the MAGA rolls. Jan 6 Episode II: Now without Bison Guy

Yes, some of Democrats specifically spoke on this topic. Either in their respective victory address or in election night interviews.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries - "House Democrats are committed to fighting for an affordable America. We will fight hard to lower the high cost of housing and groceries and gas."
Gov. Josh Shapiro - "You are done with leadership that fails to make life better. Done with waiting around for results. Done with hearing politicians talk about how bad the other guys are when you're spending on groceries what you used to spend on a car payment."
Sen. Chuck Schumer - "Five words for the American people: Relief is on the way."
Rep. Pete Aguilar - "We are focused on delivering on the affordability agenda... We think one of the stories of this election is Donald Trump's failed promises. He promised to lower people's costs on Day 1. He promised to cut your utility bill in half. None of that has happened, obviously."

For sarcastic values of Funny? Better of the two jokes the story "earned" and I lack the motivation to peruse the discussion in search of deeper thoughts.

Also no major thoughts of my own that I want to clarify through the effort of writing. I suppose I should look for something substantive about how the google went from a pretty good thing to such a major part of all the problems? Or even worse, how about a citation of the book Algorithms that spent an entire chapter on a rather interesting analysis of how the original Pagerank algorithm worked? Though gawd knows what sort of garbage the google is using now to justify the AI slop, especially the stuff coming from Google Maps where I would argue they have some of the best data to work with. Maps is maps and the human reviews are practically aching to be purified and distilled.

Funny is about timing and I'm way too late for the laugh. Story is at the bottom and expires RSN.

Or maybe it's Funny that I did start thinking of this angle soon after I saw the story, but I wasn't motivated enough to "try to contribute"? Maybe there's a joke lurking around vis a vis distracting political events and all those contributions they were begging me for?

But not funny is that the story discussion "matured" and is now about to go away without broaching the topic of comparing what they did to brain surgery. 'Nuff said. At least enough as far as Slashdot motivates the effort to say anything.

Oh yeah. About the FP. Pretty weak and I can barely imagine why it was modded Funny. The timing was willing but the spirit was weak.