Amazon did get billions of dollars of government support, when they got away with not charging state sales taxes allowing them to undercut all the established competition that had to.

I paid for an account for more than 10 years. Then they increased the rate enough to motivate me to grab my data and start migrating to Obsidian. Donâ(TM)t miss it.

They got me to cancel my Evernote subscription of more than 10 years because of the jump in the fee. Weâ(TM)ll see how much longer it lasts.

Go Groke go Broke?

Numbers check out: âoeChinaâ(TM)s urban youth unemployment rate for ages 16 to 24 has hovered around 20% since the pandemic. When it reached a record 21.3% in mid-2023, the National Bureau of Statistics stopped publishing it.â https://asiasociety.org/policy...

You donâ(TM)t understand that no matter how Trump insults them, they feel even more insulted by the mere existence of full citizenship for women and for any âoenon-whiteâ man. They are motivated by hate of âoeDemocratsâ not by anything positive they think Trump might do.

I thought that Trump had already shut the Mauna Loa Observatory down and had all the records destroyed. Nice to see it has not happened yet.

âoeRoughly $580 million worth of oil futures changed hands in a single minute early Monday morning, only about 15 minutes before President Trump posted on Truth Social that the U.S. had been engaged in âoeproductive conversationsâ with Iran to end the war. Now Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is calling what he sees: treason.â https://fortune.com/2026/03/24...

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Last time I was at a gas station the lady at the next pump was talking on her cell phone about wanting to buy a Chinese car. Maybe get out of your momâ(TM)s basement sometime.

What if I donâ(TM)t want to buy a pallet of 200 laptops? That is what the auction site lists.

Just canceled my Evernote subscription after 15 years. Weâ(TM)ll see how long it takes Bending Spoons to wreck Vimeo.

But it wasnâ(TM)t Hunter Bidenâ(TM)s laptop. The repair shop claimed it as their property after it had been under their control for quite a while.

My experience is that medical professionals are almost always wrong at first and will only find the correct diagnosis after multiple attempts. Even when I point at the exact spot, tell them in detail what the problem is they insist on exhausting their ideas first. One time they ordered multiple scans that deliberately ignored the area I mentioned and only figured it out when seeing the issue almost out of frame on the third imaging attempt.