They haven't forgotten anything, quite the opposite, they support it. It sounds scary to you and me because billions is a big unfathomable number. But the reality is Zuck spent less on the metaverse (and actually spent less on R&D in general) than many peers in the tech industry. It's just not newsworthy when it's spent on existing markets but becomes shock and awe when it is spent in an emerging market.

What have they spent? $50bn all up. All the while making $120bn a year in revenue and returning $25-30bn in profit to shareholders year on year. As long as they are being paid why not let someone invest some "chump change" in terms of the business value in attempting to make a new market? New markets are kingmakers, it's what saved Apple (the smartphone market).

What did investors think about that? Well Meta's stock was at record high only 3 weeks ago.

On the flip side Musk is a weird one. He's not returning profits to shareholders in any meaningful way to justify his rhetoric, and that is reflected in the fact that his shareholders are constantly suing him. Unlike Meta who has huge operating profits, I'm genuinely surprised so many shareholders put up with Musk's shit, especially considering how often it works directly against their interest.

You're begging the question. Investing in a new market isn't "wrong" just because it doesn't work. Companies very much do go under. Capitalism here is working just fine. A tiny portion of revenue is invested in new opportunities. Just because the number is scary big to you and me doesn't mean it isn't actually sane when looked at in context.

To be fair Linus has improved but definitely was an insufferable arsehole. He even admitted that. The question isn't whether criticism was correct, the question is how that criticism is delivered. Linus has changed a *LOT* over the years. I'm not sure about Theo, I don't follow the OpenBSD world. Is Theo the Linus of 2025 or the Linus of 2010?

No it's nothing to do with monopolies having formed in the space. Especially considering there's a wide range of players producing a wide range of models.

The reality is Facebook has kneejerk management. Always has. They over spend, over hire, and when they under deliver they let people go.

600 engineers in a 3000 strong group isn't an indication that they are firing the brightest with potential for competitors to come in. It's an indication that either:
a) their knee jerk hiring spree didn't do sufficient quality assessment and they ended up with some dead weight.
b) their model is refined to the point of functionality where it's not worth keeping staff on staff, especially in a loss making market.

The bubble is bursting.

Yes yes, we know. Only the USA knows how to look after dogs. Certainly no European countries, and certainly not those with higher percentage of dog ownership than the USA.

But I guess everything is bigger over there. Maybe you have a bear and are confusing it for a dog? I mean my neighbour has two large German Sheppard which has no problem standing upright in the back of their station wagon. I guess you probably feed your dogs more steroids than you do your cows which is why you need those fucked up mega trucks to do your tiny little "road trips" to the supermarket. Gotta look after those swole dogs right?

Yes I'm mocking you. We will never stop mocking Americans for their obsession with mega cars and the insanely hilariously stupid justifications they come up with.

Though seriously, kudos, the "animal cruelty" line is a new one for me. Thanks for keeping it fresh.

It was the megacorps that backed the woke trans agenda. Amazon, Microsoft, Google (remember James Damore's memo saying that men and women were different?)

And then a transformer shot zir way through a school of white Christian children solely for their identity and shortly thereafter Biden declared a trans holiday? ON EASTER!

Don't think this wasn't deliberate because it was. How many of you got the day off at work for this holiday?

Trump received more black votes than any Republican in history.

As blacks move up, they move right. Same for Hispanics.

Democrats need a positive agenda that addresses the concerns of working-class voters. They aren't gonna win by playing the race card.

Oh wow you had a chance to wear it for an extended period of time, and on launch day? How was it? Please give us a detailed review of the thing you have experience with using to the point where you have detailed information on it's comfort.

So buy a replacement facial interface. Aftermarket ones can be had for $15. There's no reason any part of a VR headset that has touched someone else's face needs to touch yours.

Phones are a pain in the arse to turn 90 degrees. There's nothing wrong with vertical video shorts. You're just watching them on the wrong device, all the while complaining that you actually have more screen real estate than the device these videos are targeted at.

To be clear you just said "The USA is not the worst, look at Iran"? Is that how low the USA has fallen? That you proudly proclaim you're better than Iran? IRAN? Errr. sure... *condescending slow clap*.

A story about one very specific product doesn't seem like there's much more to this. It just sounds like a company has some really frigging incompetent engineers. Especially given they flat out said they'll fix it - basically admitting guilt for a shit design.

What is a LAN? You know of course, but the average joe doesn't. They aren't interested in hearing why your shit product seemingly works sometimes and doesn't work other times or that it's related to your phone wifi being on or off at any given time.

The reason we leave the LAN is because of US. You and me. The technical morons who said we don't need IPv6, we can just NAT the NAT NAT and NAT our way through breaking end-to-end connectivity in the world and thus forcing some intermediary to assist us in making what should be a basic network connection.

We complicated something that demanded simplicity. You just did it again when you mentioned LAN. The customer has no idea what you're talking about and therefore doesn't like your product.

How else are Eskimos supposed to keep their food warm?

The economy only justifies the market. The market is based on policy. The policy is driven by subsidies. Pretending one isn't intrinsically and inseparably linked to the other is just ignorance.

You would shit your pants like a new born baby if you saw what your fuel price would be like without subsidies for oil and gas, and without the fantastically and abnormally low fuel excise taxes levied in the USA that can't even remotely keep up with basic infrastructure investment requirements and require additional support from other financial sources in the government.

The economics don't justify it because of Trump, and because of America, and because you voted for them specifically to not justify it. Blaming the subsidy is the lowest IQ form of post.