I know a guy (not important to this story, but he was in our Army) who is Turkish and Iranian. And that's how he described himself, too.

Slurping soup is not a comparable example. Slurping soup makes sense because it aerates it, which both cools it and brings out additional flavors. Refusing payment when you expect to be paid is a waste of the customer's time. It's disrespectful of their time. Not all cultural elements are created equal.

Yes, they absolutely and literally are. Saying they do not expect payment when they do is a lie. Making you insist to pay them multiple times before you accept payment is an argument. You are pretending words don't have their meanings for the sake of making an argument yourself.

Jaguar says they have "a global cash balance of £4.2 billion reflecting total cash and cash equivalents, deposits and investments" and corporations worldwide are hoarding cash.

It's unclear why you economics "experts" on Slashdot are ignoring the well known fact that corporations are actually sitting on trillions of dollars (or whatever currency units, ofc) at the moment, more than they have ever held previously, but ignorance isn't a good look.

This time might be different but I doubt anything was learned by the suits.

If Trump and Elon aren't deep state then I don't know what is.

They have running costs, shipments of materials, orders that get cancelled, contractual penalties, etc. Business people get many things wrong, but this is not one of them.

We are not quite there yet, but close. And with AI mostly benefitting attackers, we may be there even as early as next year. It is high time that executives that screw up this massively are personally held accountable. With sane, competent leadership, you may be partially down for no more than a few days after such an attack. If the attackers get in at all. A month downtime just says they did not prepare at all and what they has in security was a complete joke.

Nope. Listen to his actual words. And then, if you still do not see it, maybe learn English?

And where did you get that "insight" from? Straight from your behind? Because it happens to be untrue.

Yeah , for the most part Academics see them as nonsensical and even harmful. Most Universities will have *something* that makes them desirable. They might be a lower ranked uni in general, but have a world class Nursing program, or perhaps they are more research than student focused (which doesnt make it a bad choice for students, in fact it makes it a great choice for students who want to become researchers) and so on. Where I live, the lowest rated university also has the best Teaching and Music programs Despite its reputation as the "last chance university", if your want to study music, it'll be your ivy league choice. Thats the sort of detail these things dont capture, instead demeaning perfectly good degrees and unduly elevating degrees from institutions that get their reputation from their status as Ivy Leagues. This in turn tends to reinforce other , often harmful, heirachies in society. Rich kids get to go to harvard, and walks out with a harvard degree despite being a useless seat warmer who did the bare minimum to pass.

Thats not to say the elites are bad universities either. The extra funding from daddys endowment means that rich kids got access to some of the finest academics to tutor them. But the working class kid sent to the local working-class university might just be enrolled in that one topic run by an academic whos ideas will change the world. And that kid might be the one of the greatest students that academic has ever tutored, but said kid isnt going to get the job over the lazy ass harvard grad.

A president is never right to pressure any media. That is not his job. The senile felon just does not understand that. What people like you are to dumb to understand is also that there is something like a "measured response". With you cretins it is always black or white, yes or not, celebrate or fire. In the case of Jimmy Kimmel, he did not actually make a claim about the shooter. He made one about the MAGAs and that one was factually correct. Incidentally, the claims the MAGAs made were direct lies with what was known at the time (nothing). I would say that mandates at least a fine for each of them.

And sorry for answering to an AC, I mis-clicked. Please ignore my answer, ACs are not worth my time or attention.

You clearly are insane in an advanced stage. Your statement nicely shows that you have zero connection to reality left and think everything is about you and you have absolute truth at your disposal.

There is a difference between an "implication" (whether it is a strong one or not is a judgment call) and a direct claim. Incidentally, this is not even an implication. It is a merely factual description of what the MAGAs were in fact doing. So, the MAGAs all made direct claims at a time nothing was really known. Did they get punished for that or even called out?