I'd say it's even more about other women than men at this point. A good example is women's nails. Men mostly just like "clean and well groomed". We don't care if they have a zillion charms and a custom airbrushed paint job: but other women do bigtime. So, when I see that on a woman I know who her main audience is. Doesn't mean they are lesbian, just means they are female-vs-female competitive. Not sure if that's good or bad, but pretty sure it's true.

The electronic price price tag on the grocery store shelf is updated in HFT real-time now, tied directly to the price-per-gallon of diesel fuel at the pump.

Inflation has no fucking idea how to measure the economy anymore when it has become that corrupt.

(HP GLP1-flavored Marketing) "Yeah. Thinner. That's the shit."

(Apple) "Uh, just so you know..even we filed Bendgate in the Lessons Learned folder."

That's the one that will bring in the profitss.

You really should have re-checked that link before using it. You'd have seen the update where it turned out the account had been flagged for phishing, instead of just the rampant speculation that turned out to be false.

Sometimes the worst port of incident response is the responders not knowing when to just STFU.

Honestly what a statement to make. Nobody breaks into a system exfils and bunch of records without authorization without some intention to miss use the information. I guess there is a edge case where it is 'just a stunt' or part of some pentest/proof of concept exercise, in the latter case though it isn't an incident and is authorized just not thru ordinary procedure.

All saying you have no indication the information has been miss used is really saying is - it is absolutely being used against us (collectively) or our personnel individually AND we don't have the intelligence capability to identify how or whom specifically..

Don't subsidize shit.

Subsudies are money paid by the state to the producer. The state has its money essentially from middle-class taxes, while "producers" is just a code word for upper-class investors. So subsidies are esentially just abother way of redistributing wealth from bottom to top.

Instead, pay people enough that subsudies aren't necessary. That's wealth distribution from top to bottom, as it should be for a more uniform result.

My brother was kind of like that. He tried everything in his 20's and 30's and didn't get very far. The women who were interested were terrible and treated him terribly. He's short: about 5' 6" by girl-standards. So, they weren't having that shit. He did the dating apps and services, he grew some mildly social hobbies and met women but always ended up in the Beavis rant about never scoring.

Then he decided around 38 to go get some anabolic steroids (he did it legally via a sport's medicine doctor). Started lifting weights 5 days a week on his nights. His words were "In about a year I went from couldn't get a smile to needing a stick to fend them off." That seems to be the key in all the real life stories I've heard.

Women already know this. That's why they go straight to max on the fitness, makeup, and clothes fronts. They know men are just as superficial as they are.

Oh, sure. That's why native Europeans are so fecund, after all!

You realize all your "solutions" have been tried, right?

We should be at about negative one million family farms in the US by now. Because trend lines never change ...

10% brighter every year. How long until we go supernova?

Could certainly do with a bit more of a paddlin' around here. Just sayin

>"Go to about:config and toggle browser.nova.enabled to false."

Thanks! Color me surprised... although Mozilla has always been pretty good about adding disable options for many of the changes they introduce (much better than other browsers). Of course, it is likely that config entry will eventually disappear. But maybe by then something else will happen or replace it and it won't matter.

I mentioned the wealth of Communist revolutionaries. The people who claimed that money was bad and property was theft but somehow ended up starting wealthy and ended up wealthy and powerful (and soaked in blood).

Cold Socialism be achieved without authoritarianism? No. It is necessary because the system demands that private property be seized, and people tend to resist that. It is necessary because controlling the means of production means controlling labor, which is you. A centrally planned economy means the planners must decide who does what work and where. If the People have any say in that, then it is no longer centrally planned.

I also think you're making a mistake, and that sadly it is one caused by my side. The GOP went too far for too long calling everything Socialist. Socialism is state control of the means of production, not a government-backed pension program. That may be a thing Socialist governments do (or say they do), but they also have standing armies and we don't call that Socialist. Free market economics does not preclude the existence of something like Social Security.

And I'm going to take a tangent for a minute to point out that market economics could improve social security. Remember when Bush put forward a plan to partially invest the SS funds in the stock market? Democrats and the AARP lost their minds and pulled out all the stops to fight it, and they won. Had they not, then today Social Security would be solvent, healthy, and most people would get considerably more back. Who isn't in that "most"? The top 2 wage tiers. https://www.aei.org/wp-content...

There is no rule that says a free market economy (Capitalist, if using Marx' terms) has to draw the line between public and private goods/services in a particular place. Consider - there are no Socialist nations in West Europe. There are Capitalist nations with many public services. That said, there is a mathematical tipping point where the public sector becomes so large that it chokes out the private sector, leading to collapse. Not Socialism, but an economic collapse. That hasn't happened anywhere that I'm aware of, but I doubt the solution would be more government control.

Note that right now, the US is not addressing the debt. That's a problem that's only going to get worse. The only tax inequity I see is that not everyone pays income taxes, and that could lead to a problem - "no representation without taxation". Though I do think it's worth reconsidering the difference between the capital gains and income tax rates.

I see you're trying very hard to avoid answering. And threw in another insult.

You do realize what that means, correct? You're saying, "Oh crap, I've been caught saying something stupid and indefensible again. How can I change the subject before I'm forced to face my failure?"

There are better ways to deal with that. The best being to think before hitting submit. The next best is to drink a little less.

I only give you a hard time because I like you and know you can do better.

Well, maybe. Shouldn't that be trackable on the blockchain?