I can't #deleteFacebook because Facebook deleted me. One of the best events of my long life, though I still wonder why.

And so little interest, too. Oh well. At least the story isn't intrinsically Funny. I'm not seeing any low-hanging cannibalistic clowns that tasted funny.

Mod parent and FP branch insightful mixed with funny.

I would offer a solution approach, but that would be insane in this context. There is no way to un-evil YouTube without cutting into the profits, even if there are no profits and the entire YouTube thing is really a loss leader if you could only see the full books.

Root of the problem? Perhaps that normal people just want enough to live comfortably but the changes are decided by insanely greedy people who EVER have enough. Especially not enough money, which is especially hilarious since they are destroying the meanings of every notion of "money" and "value" and even "right versus wrong".

Y'all are making me feel weird. Or even more weird than usual?

Mod parent Funny, though "continues to be money" was a bit annoying or something. Or maybe my case is too weird or too ancient? Even worse, it was an open contract with no special incentives. (And none of that insane "Thank you for your service" garbage in those days.)

By being mindlessly propagated...

Actually not too bad in this case. Scrollbar metric indicates only about 20% penetration of the discussion.

Okay funny, but the joke I was looking for was rage-induced suicides. Some sort of road rage joke...

I'll check back tomorrow in hopes more funny has blossomed on this rich target.

*sigh*

s/more more/more money/

I propose a new metric for assessing the bloviated market value of AI companies. Not sure what to call it, but it's based on price to earnings ratio. As far as I know, the current leader is Musk's corporate cancer with a value over 200, whereas the same source said the other big AI companies including the google, Anthropic, and Microsoft were around 25 to one. My fuzzy memories of helping an MBA researching corporate bankruptcy included something about normal ratios of 10:1, but that was a long time ago. Of course my prediction is that this new Chinese company has a ratio comparable to whatever Elong [sic] is calling his company now.

But if the Chinese company stock price is significantly above 200 times earnings, perhaps approaching infinity, then China wins again?

Oh, wait. What about negative valuations of the ratio? Has anyone yet managed an IPO on a company that has no earnings yet?

Give me FUNNY. (Of course they won't) Or at least nominate me for a Nobel Prize in Funny Economics.

Disclaimer needed. I think Musk is a mass murderer, but it wasn't anything personal. He just desperately NEEDS more more than any sane person would ever want. One of the requirements for winning that kind of pseudo-nonrandom lottery is an insane level of greed. My new theory is that a "normal" lottery winner only suffers from excessive hopefulness or extreme luck. Good or bad luck, that is the question.

Jesus Fucking Christ. It's 2026, Trump has been putting his boot on the necks of major networks and studios for a year and a half now. I realize you probably fell into a coma in 2016, but ten years later, the free press, regardless of what you think of it, or fair you imagine it is, is under direct assault. Fuck off with the "MSM" bullshit and grow the fuck up.

None of that is true. Grow up and learn how to understand and rate journalism. Start with Appling the spj code of ethics to media.
" Anyone who defends that is off the deep end self-deluding and in full on denial of reality. "
So you post a factual incorrect statement then call anyone with facts delusional. JFC, take some actual media course. Like, in a class room.

He's incapably of learning. I don't thing he has learned anything since 1980.

OFFS lease stop lying. You wither didn't read it, or didn't understand it.
Some of us remember when he was alive, and read went o to study him.
If you actually know what you were talking about, you would understand the difference between Marxist communism and socialism.

Liars like you have become tiresome.

No, you did not. Yor just making things up becasue you are likely functionally illiterate, can'[t hold complex thought or idea, and have no clue how to admit you are wrong. I pity you, Because your are embarrassingly wrong.