But the joke I was looking for was about who elected (and will elect) whom in these days of applied psychology destroying human freedom and the meaning of elections. In the form of a mystery novel the detective sometimes starts by asking "Who benefited?" (Certainly not Europe. Too soon to say China?)

And yet my mind is still boggled by the idea that there are people who voted for the YOB six times, counting primaries. Fool me one is supposed to be a mistake, twice is a shame, but six times?

Thanks for the tips. At first I thought you were referring to the 2023 book by Connie Willis. My local library system actually has two copies of that one and I'm going to take a look at it. (The library seems to think she's named Willis Connie?) Because of the date, it might be linked to the older movie?

I'm pretty sure there was also an old English book with a similar title, too, but your Wikipedia link is actually about a movie from Korea and I couldn't find any book reference there. Haven't seen the movie and unlikely to (though I recently saw a few minutes of a recent Men in Black film on TV). I don't see many movies these decades.

If a chemical reaction is sped up by sound waves, does it mean the chemicals have a special sense of sound? Or is it just the basic mechanics of increasing collisions between different atoms/ions/molecules?

... is drying up. No more 150k+/year for building bullsh*t online services that might turn a profit in 10+ years. Boomers have stopped investing and are spending and passing on heritages in their last days of life. This isn't the only factor crunching the tech industry, but a notable one, I suspect.

... late than never I say.

It's also a sociopathic one.

That it's SOP doesn't make it any less so, but rather an indictment against our capitalism-first culture.

It's called a private cloud, it's not rocket surgery, we were doing clustering with machines with only dozens of MHz clock speeds and less RAM than most modern embedded platforms back in the nineties.

It's a smart strategy IF you don't mind of your most competent employees leave first. At Facebook with its current strategy they might be ok with that.

Most of their good employees left a while ago anyway.

Building generators does not require tax dollars.

Of course not. We buy electricity from the utilities. They don't pay us to take it.

That's actually a smart strategy.

But I wonder how many employees will quit in today's job market.

All that and you still can't help bragging about how many people you've managed.

This is not news that matters. Normally I don't complain, but...

That's supposed to be the perfect state for Buddhist meditation and the path to true zen.

(But what's AC's excuse for possibly living that way? Or just another AI sock puppet?)

(And of course I'm reading another book on the topic. Oh wait, I see there are two of them. Maybe three?)

So you don't believe Epstein was an alien, eh? No one's told you about the REAL conspiracy?

I think you should have been modified Funny rather than insightful. Even funnier with some tail-wagging-dog angle about the let's-not-call-it a war in Iran.