Well, they do say the Universe is expanding... now we know why - Galactic Sugar is everywhere.

My past dealings (mine and others) have lead me to think of PayPal as a criminal enterprise,

I've seen a lot of hate thrown at PayPal over the years.....and not quite sure why?

I've used it a LONG time for eBay payments, sending money to friends and the odd small merchant.

I wouldn't say I've used it a TON, but some.....and never had any problems.

What problems have ya'll had that you dislike them so badly? Genuinely curious....

Stripe has censored people in the past, just like every other payment provider. I once interviewed at Braintree (Paypay/Venmo) but didn't get the position. I've never had Venmo and I deleted my Paypal in 2022:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

MSFT wants to sell you and your enterprise the tools and capacity to bug hunt your own code and allegedly help you "drive costs" out of your operations. I suspect this is more of a "look, we are eating our own dog food!" exercise to drive sales.

They're trying to slap the copilot moniker on anything they can lay a hand on to further that goal. Someone's gotta pay for all that capex they're pushing into their datacenter infrastructure....might as well be you.

Am I one of the only people that do NOT like talking to machines?

I mean, I still can't stand the voice menus when you call support...I''m constantly hitting "0" or saying Operator over and over to get to a real person asap.

Don't get me wrong, I like my AI...ChatGPT can be fun and helpful...but, I don't wanna hold a fscking conversation with it, especially not in public.

Hell, that's one of the reasons I hate the voice support calls, when in public or sitting in Cube Land where everyone has nosy ears....

Most of the world doesn't have DST. It's really just Europe and the US. Somehow they manage.

I"m in the US...and I don't care which one they make permanent .....just pick one and stick with it.

I hate the hour changes....messes with me twice a year fairly badly at times....gets my pets off schedule too which is a PITA.

Ok...I understand disabilities, etc....

But WTF is "Protected Leave"?

That is a new term for me.....some forms of vacation time are "protected"?

Vacuums don't crush.

I really dont get why it's an issue? Our civilization can operate in perpetual night. We have lights galore. Its not like we need to refill kerosene... No, changing clocks is the stupidest idea ever. In fact, I think we should get rid of time zones. you live in X, you wake up at Y, and you go to work / school at Z. Its the same time everywhere, and your local school or work sets its schedule accordingly. For fucks sake are we really that stupid anymore? Every human on the planet that needs to operate on a clock has a phone glued to their eyeballs that can manage this.

How do you figure?

CBS along with the other main 3 broadcast (ABC and especially NBC) are heavy left leaning....CNN is very left leaning, but not so much as MSNOW (used to be MSNBC).

So far, it appears the new lady in charge of CBS has indeed tried pulling them to at least center left rather than far left.

She herself is NOT a right leaning person....

We need some balance....everyone LEFT with Fox New being the sole Right leaning news in the US just doesn't work....I'd rather them all be center but at least balance out the left and right if that's the only option.

and perhaps more to do with them failing to shake down their customers for incremental subscription-based revenue streams. Confronted with heavy handed "we're bundling all this extra stuff you don't want or use in with whatever you currently have and we're going to charge you more for all that 'additional value you're getting'....even if you've been shrinking your overall IBM hardware/software footprint."

Hard pass.

Yep..never heard of OnePlus nor Oppo before in my life......so, no wonder they're not a success in the US if no one knows the brand or what they do...

(What the heck does a PalmPilot organizer have to do with any of this?) Well ... I remember back when they first got popular, my buddy was a software developer at the company I worked for. At lunch one day, he mentioned how he absolutely loved the Palm OS platform, simply because it had so many limitations. He said when writing for the Windows PCs, by contrast? You had so many system resources and so many options, you could pretty much code anything you could come up with. Sloppy code was a non-issue too, on modern systems. Only the coders reviewing the source would know any better. He liked the mental challenges involved in maximizing what you could get from a Palm device with a small monochrome screen and the whole bit.

I feel the same way with movies. All these mega-mergers may give a few big-name film-makers massive financial resources to create new movies. But most of it is unnecessary to make an amazing film. What you need is a great story, and good acting (which really isn't some monopoly held by the big Hollywood stars!). Less is very often more. (Consider how well the first Star Wars trilogy held up over time, using simple backgrounds like a mostly empty desert for Tatooine. I prefer that to the crazy "busy" AI generated scenes in the newer movies.)

Nah, I don't think that will help the acceleration. Building them out keeps the money shifting and prolongs the frauds. I don't know how we get ram relief at this point. The economy will collapse entirely before that's allowed to happen.

Despite electing a communist mayor in their largest city, it seems like the state government is making a solid good move here. We already have way more capacity than China. I high doubt any of the current model hosting providers are anywhere near capacity or have growth curves even approaching them. It's all investment fraud and NY is doing the right thing to put a hard break on the newest Tulip Mania