Corrections are gentle descents when compared to a bubble burst, which is more spectacular. 100x is still a high valuation is what the parent is hinting at I think. 250x to 10x would be a bubble burst.

Is the current unrest happening all over Europe part of their small scale sabotage to keep Europe behind?

"... planning elaborate deception operations that trick adversaries into installing faulty components — likely designed by TSO."

That is what the US has been alleging China is doing. So this then is a copy-paste from China's "TSO" book of tricks.

Border crossing buddies will now get a $10 aluminum foil umbrella as part of their border crossing kit to help them evade the $10M freakin 'Heat Ray' devices.

May be the 9% were working on other strategies that didn't work.

Isn't it wonderful how, in our current system, an employee can be transformed from a resource to a liability overnight and at the mere stroke of a pen?

It's like the proverbial last straw that broke the camel's back.

The long-term enshittification of Firefox was funded and perpetuated by Google. Mozilla was funded by Google. Mozilla's CEO was owned by Google. Now that the Google funding is gone, Mozilla is waking up from its long Google funded slumber and asking some questions.

Because capitalist America hates capitalism and socialist Europe loves capitalism.

I think it has nothing to do with capitalism. It really means, who ever valuated VMWare at $61 billion for the owners of VMWare, did a shitty job.

This reminds me of the bygone Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) era. Where firms used to acquire companies that were unrelated to their own business. They would do so because the equity valuations of the acquired co were so low, that the free cash flows and assets of the acquired company could finance the cost of acquisition and still leave some money on the table.

Coincidentally, the last of such deals ended with KKR acquiring NABISCO. In the case of VMWare too, KKR purchased some of the assets of VMWare from Broadcom.

You've made it very clear.

May be it inherits the same moral, ethical and cultural traits as OpenAI has internally.

They all shouted from roof tops in unison, I don't know what their real motive was. But they definitely caught the attention of at least one unplanned, unintended entity so far. All the best!

Dell tried its hand at an answer to Apple Neo, also with Windows OS. Consumers now have 2 answers to choose from. But I wonder if these companies know what the question really is.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

Here are the countries with highest fertility rates. I guess all these countries have shared domestic responsibilities:

Top Countries by Fertility Rate (2026)
Rank | Country | Total Fertility Rate
1 Chad 5.84
2 Somalia 5.81
3 Democratic Republic of Congo 5.80
4 Central African Republic 5.69
5 Niger 5.64
6 Mali 5.33
7 Angola 4.89
8 Burundi 4.57
9 Afghanistan 4.56
10 Mozambique 4.54

Won't that mean, parents could have a life while not having to raise a kid?

People produced more children in the past, in the hope of getting out of their financial woes. They sent off their kids as child labor, to add a little more to the family income. More kids = more income. So there was an incentive to produce more kids.

Now kids cannot legally work until they are 16+. And parents are required to provide for them, care for them, educate them... So more kids = more expenditure = sure way to get into poverty. Kids are a liability.