No oneâ(TM)s going to save Taiwan. I hope we have contingency plans to spirit away the smartest/ wealthiest chip guys. Other than that, itâ(TM)s over.

Aircraft carriers? Are you nuts. How many aerodromes in the PRC are within range of Taiwan? Iâ(TM)m guessing a lot. And such places are considered to have at least 3x fighting power than any aircraft carrier.

An unpermitted touching.
If he was afraid, or a reasonable person would be afraid , then it’s assault as well.

I think I’d sue just to screw with comcast.

I hate big judgements for frivolous things. But if this came into my courtroom I’d give him 100k.

I have a like/not-like opinion of this guy. His seemingly adderall-induced patter is fun to listen to, and I sort of agree with him on many points, but it is basically an auto-repeat loop now. Not much changes. I suppose that’s true of many slow-motion train wrecks.

Let’s see. It’s a modern world, and the president has decided to make big announcements on his own internet platform. Ok, I guess, even though these are clearly public messages that affect the public good. And these announcements cause real money to be made and lost all across the world. SO, he’s going to selectively release the information so that only a few people can arrange their finances to profit from these messages by seeing them earlier than everyone else. Even if only one minute earlier, the information can be used to great advantage. And he’s going to personally profit from this arrangement as well.

He is selling access to inside information.

And half the country gives out a collective yawn.

AI-native?

Is that like mobile first?

Cool. I’m so impressed.

What do the aggrieved parties get? A $10
coupon to the Apple Store?

And the lawyers? Millions. This one case made the careers of several of them. Never have to work again.

Crazy.

(Who is the tool now with my silly autocorrect mistake? Ha. God keeping me grounded, I guess. )

The guy is ash h a tool. (Rich, of course. But still a tool)

Don’t forget .net everything. They even called windows server ‘.net’ at one point.

TurboTax is so annoying. It doesn’t ever technically lie to you about all its useless add-ons. But, I wonder how much time the engineers spend creating a good tax filing product (making it easy to use, keeping up to date with new laws, forms, etc.) vs tweaking the hell out of the workflow to subtly (and not so subtly) guide you into giving them more of your money. Yes, I know: capitalism! I’ve got no issue with them turning a profit. I do have an issue with them clearly using various bits of UX trickery, that, unless you are a dolt, are clearly designed to obfuscate their true intentions. With a slight veneer of truth to prevent class action lawsuits.

(Yes, I have moved on from them, which is my ultimate solution. They still are dishonest)

Let’s take a disaster and start experimenting with a new payment scheme, that we know somehow is profiting someone. (Yeah, I know what stablecoin means).

Only in Trump world is this lunacy given credence.

Don’t you like how he took 10 billion taxpayer dollars and transferred it to himself, I mean the board of peace, without legislative approval , and there was nary a whimper.

Nuts.

Leaving aside the creep factor, I believe people just don’t want to interact this way. It’s goofy.

We’ve been down this road before with glasses, augmented reality, whatever.

“This time it’s different. It will actually be useful in ways you can’t even imagine!”

Well, that’s a little scary on its face. And I still recoil from the basic use case/form factor even assuming complete benevolence.

I thought they were going to re-write the whole thing in 30 days using AI. Weren’t they sleeping on the floor until they got it done?

Maybe that was social security. I’ve forgotten.

It’s so stupid. Do you honestly believe this will happen, where real money is on the table?

I am sure there’s nuance: he’s saying it *could* happen, I suppose, and only if companies endorse his view. If they don’t, and stay in the dark ages, then that’s on them.

Sounds like the same drivel we get from Muskie.

He’s probably been told by someone he’s not visionary enough. So he gets out there with some projection, because everyone is doing it, and no one seems to pay a price for getting it wrong.

Good grief.

I once saw a guy say his system sounded better after the new cables he bought “rested a few days.” I.e: stretched out on the floor, routed from his amp to his speakers. I’m no EE, but that sounds a bit daft.