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  • That capex number in the article is a big part of it. $200 billion spent to generate $1-2 billion a month in revenue is wasteful, and people at the top are feeling the pressure to justify that expense.

  • That’s like half of Ed Zitron’s output, although he puts more detail into identifying the specific placid and compliant reporters.

  • In fact, it seems to be getting worse along a number of axes.

  • The real difference is that Jonathan Frakes actually knows how to play trombone, and pretty well. Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner don’t play their instruments at all.

  • In other news, Elon Musk is and always has been a fat fucking liar and fraud.

  • Hell yes.

  • I learned who he was when some republican called him “Barney f-slur” and tried to play it off as a misspeaking of his name.

  • Yeah, the question is framed poorly. Not all effects on one’s life are good.

    Also, with the (possible) exception of kids who grow up in the foster system, I would argue your parents have the largest effect on your life, good or bad. Whether you recognize it or not.

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  • Guerilla plant fast growing plants in vacant areas to suck up as much CO2 as possible?

    (Yes I know this is like a drop in the ocean.)

  • Andrew Ti has proposed that part of the problem that the VP exemplifies is that the Bay Area is too expensive for regular people to live in, so you have tech millionaires in their little bubbles never getting input from regular people. Specifically from teenagers. If Apple had taken the VP to malls in (say) Minneapolis and Dallas and LA and Newark, the people wearing it would have been roasted by teenagers, and the designers and engineers would know there was still work to do.

  • Apple Vision Pro seemed doomed from the get go, but they really made it worse by not launching a cheaper headset with Air branding half a year or a year in to actually drive market share enough to make it worthwhile for developers. Could've given it an A series CPU since we now know it works in a laptop so why not in XR or whatever they're calling this.

    I think Vision Pro was doomed regardless. Go back and watch the iPhone announcement, then the Vision Pro announcement. Every single person in the auditorium when Jobs is presenting the iPhone is thinking of the thousand things they can do with that device. In the Vision Pro announcement, there’s none of that energy. If they released something that left zero question as to its purpose, the price could sit at $3K and they wouldn’t be able to make them fast enough. Instead we got an Oculus that won’t support most games and costs 6 times as much.

  • Wow, the proverb was right: politics do make strange bedfellows.

  • Here’s a thought: push for “publicly held”corporations to be actually public. No secrets, trade or otherwise.

  • If you go to house.gov they let you look up your rep by zip code. I’d point out that the data is almost certain to be subjected to a breach, which would expose way more sensitive data than usual to whoever wanted it.

  • At least one of the accusers sent information to a San Francisco newspaper reporter in 2024. Seems like news media tried to cover it up until it became too big to ignore.

  • EXCLUSIVE: something several online commentators have been reporting for at least the last month or so.

  • Coming soon: Arch de triomphe.

  • More weakened.