Because Fox "news" just wasn't enough for them.

Golly, who could say no to that?

Well, you could, but seriously, there's no good alternative to Linux.

I'd mod this up if I could. The extra middle men all have to be fed as well.

For firing the Woz and canceling the IIgs line

> There's nothing to indicate it can or will produce anything remotely approaching an interesting new take on anything.

You may be correct. I doubt it will matter much. As Mencken in 1938 said, ""No one in this world, so far as I know... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

Yes and no. When thousands of amateurs are cranking out films for free and posting them publicly, some of them will be more popular than others.

Not to mention the porn industry.

It's not just the actors, it's the whole entertainment industry that's doomed.

Look, it's all about money and synthetic actors will always be cheaper. Eventually they'll be better. Even more eventually, your humble home computer will be able to cobble up a personalized drama, comedy, rom com or whatever you want, on command and there will be no more Hollywood, Bollywood or anything like a centralized entertainment industry.

Like the T800 in terminator, this can't be stopped. It can't even be slowed.

Microplastics are this generations lead in gasoline. Crappy processed food would be the second culprit, followed by vaping and whatever crap goes into that.

So, can you pay me all that research money now?

There'll be quite a market for people who can fix this crap.

Because drugs!.

There's a whole contingent of the USA population who put all drugs in one mental bucket and scream "drugs are baaaaad."

If the USA government was serious about drug harm reduction, then THCs and hallucinogenics would be legal and cheap so law enforcement resources could focus on cracking down on actually harmful drugs like meth, fentanyl, PCP and it's analogs and so on.

Eventually, less harmful drugs would crowd out more harmful drugs and drug associated health problems become relatively minor.

While the article does discuss a valid point which is that much of physics research is nonsense. The reason is that the whole system of grant funding is dysfunctional. It's not a conspiracy run by a secret cabal. It's just the usual case of institutional human stupidity.

That evil guy Trump has the solution, created last Friday- $100,000 minimum application fee for new H-1bs

If Trump wants to make the $100,000 H-1b fee *extremely popular among techies*:

-$30,000 to an American worker laid off in the last 36 months for retraining funds and or job coaches
-$50,000 in a trust fund for the worker to be paid upon purchase of a return ticket when the visa expires, or alternatively, to pay for a conversion to an immigrant visa
-$15,000 to the revenue to help pay for INS/ICE and the bureaucrats to process the application
-$5,000 to a company that cancels an H-1b application to hire a US Citizen

All orchestrated by Google. Hope you products out there weren't expecting privacy or anonymity.

EVs would be residential, not wholesale, pricing.

Big AI Data Centers would be wholesale pricing.

I guess I should clarify. In addition to "just the W2" there's also a monthly, quarterly, or yearly payroll tax report that goes to the IRS, along with a whopping large check for the withholding, as part of normal payroll processing. Different companies do different reporting standards, of course. But they're getting the data a lot more often than you think, just from the money paid in *during* the year, before the return is filed for.