Whom! Settled with whom!

He later shared a link to the Pirate Library Mirror site with colleagues, writing "this is awesome!!!"

It goes a level deeper. The Go/Fresh stores are competing with other retailers in the area. They put the other retailers under pressure by giving free coffee with a $5 purchase in the AM. I never go to the Starbucks because there's a swarm of young professionals waiting for some poor tattooed trans pincushion to take their money and shout their names. I don't have time for that transaction. Free coffee at Amazon. But the Go store has been closed since Thursday. The left over food is rotting on the shelves.
At least the Go store didn't push all the other retailers out and THEN close, leaving us with no options but empty stores. Because that would have been on track for 2026.

This is all Barry Diller's doing afaik. The initial purchase of Vimeo by IAC and the selling of it to BS is entirely up to him managing his portfolio.

It's good for Barry Diller! Barry's company IAC bought Vimeo in ~2007 I think. I don't know how much he paid for Vimeo, but he's probably made all his money back selling off shares. He always does.

diabetes, hypertension, obesity, mental health conditions
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...
It's not the vaccines. People are not dying from the 90 or so inoculations or the diseases they inoculate against.
We're addicted to cheap and plentiful food. Our favorite foods are butter, cheese, refined wheat, cured meats.
High calorie, high fat, high sugar, low nutrition. And alcohol. Don't forget to have 3 beers with that 10,000 calorie pizza.
People drink 10 cans of beer a day. That's 2000+ calories on beer alone.

"you already know any OKR with no real way to double check is something you report having achieved because you were too lazy to do any of ‘em."
BINGO. Also, in this hypothetical company, say the OKR says do something 10% better in the current reporting period. You have no incentive to do any better than 10%, because that OKR will still apply during the next reporting period, in which you'll have to eek out another 10%. You might have a way to do 50% better (say, reduce cost of infrastructure) but you can't because you'd blow all your OKR budget in one reporting period. AND on the end of that, nobody's going to say you did anything but BARELY MEET EXPECTATIONS even though the OKRs are clearly designed to keep you in that segment. I definitely will use AI to write my frigging mid and end year review. Expect it to be thousands of words long and extremely positive in my favor.

"The EPA itself admits that surface water regulations are the one category of environmental rules where estimated costs exceed estimated benefits."

I'm not saying he's wrong or that the data he presents is flawed. It should be noted that a person complaining about the cost of regulation is the director of research and a senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, which is an American 501 nonprofit conservative think tank. They want all forms of deregulation more than they want slavery for women.
Nobody drinks the water in the airplane bathroom. The EPA does however think it should be drinkable for some reason:
https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/...

Business as usual!
The Monroe Doctrine, the Roosevelt Corollary and now the Trump Corollary. With very brief pauses in intervention, the US just can't keep its mitts out of South and Central American treasure.

I'd be using AR glasses right now if they were not created by the big platforms as just another way to make you, (me) the consumer, the product. To surf the net like the Major using her cyberbrain and a few virtual and physical agents we'd need a much larger leap in understanding the mammalian brain. I don't trust Elmo to develop a safe brain/computer interface.

You can't even keep microplastics out of a clean-room science lab environment that's trying to conduct studies on microplastic contamination. I'm not up to speed on all the studies obviously, but I believe micro and nanoplastic are observed to be rapidly internalized by monocytes in phagocytosis. They are just another foreign body to be encapsulated by phagocytes so that we don't die from dirt in our environment or turn into walking tumors. The additional load on the immune system may cause lowered/delayed phagocytosis of other foreign bodies. This might be a contributing factor in autoimmune disorders/deficiencies. It's not good, sorta like increasing radiation levels by detonating nuclear bombs in the Pacific is not good. We might not adapt stronger immune systems or cellular repair mechanisms fast enough for the new shit we're introducing to the environment. A lot of species have not adapted to our pollution. Some have though.

They've been led to believe that Ukraine is the enemy and is full of degenerate non-Russians who want to steal their livestock, grain and womenfolk. These are a very tribalistic people, and Putin keeps reinforcing the Russo-Christian nationalistic ideal with heavy indoctrination. It's like if Trump Media owned and controlled all media you could possibly have access to - the internet, broadcast TV, radio etc. If you dissent and anyone hears it, it's off to the front for you. The FSB is everywhere. When Russian soldiers first arrive in Ukraine, they're shocked at how well and comfortably Ukrainians live, and can get name-brand goods like shoes, clothing, TVs, cell phones and food. Putin has successfully dehumanized Ukrainians in Russian people's minds. For Russians, the wake up call is too late, because they're often in the middle of a contested territory about to die. Hopefully before they get blown to bits they have time to call their family and tell them that Putin is maybe not being honest with them about Ukraine.

Are you talking about Vitallii Kovalev? There's a really good 60 minutes transcript that goes into detail about Kovalev:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h...

From what I can tell from the articles, Kovalev was arrested in Florida after a high-speed chase and was found with bank records for $75k and a device that could wipe a car's computer and GPS tracking memory. Kovalev had studied radio tech in a Russian military institute before coming the US to be a chef, so maybe he was involved in constructing devices in the US. He spent 30 months in jail for evading & reckless driving, after which he returned to Russia and disappeared. It looks like he was sent to the front in Ukraine and was killed in action, but that could be a cover. The investigator in charge of that FBI case was allegedly/probably targeted by the device by other Russian agents in the US.

headlined: An FBI agent was investigating Vitalii Kovalev when she suffered a mysterious attack linked to "Havana Syndrome"
https://washingtonian.com/2024...

There's always pr0n! Limitless content!

Why deny using AI when our management tell us we have to either use it for everything or become obsolete? Everyone should admit to using LLMs. They told us to. Here's the result. We get the wrong information and can't tell the difference sometimes.