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  • The Onion's parent company, Global Tetrahedron, won a 2024 bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, but a judge voided those results, saying their was a lack of transparency in the deal.

    If the licensing agreement receives court approval, The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site satirizing its conspiratorial origins, and comedian Tim Heidecker has been hired as creative director.

    “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” said Heidecker, one of the creative forces behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.

  • Do you know why I would do better? I would hire him to do the logistics and handle the CFO, while focusing on R&D, design and what the customers want. He entirely skipped R&D, design and giving the customers what they want.

    Plus I would fucking never do this and suck up to a fascist:

    (screenshot at 4 minutes in article video):

    https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/07/tim-cook-gift-to-trump/

  • He was just sticking up for trump last week. I think it was over Iran. This is temporary and for the left to have something to be distracted from. Trump is in the low 30s in approval, that's covid bad.

  • The NYT throws the left a bone every now and then in an attempt to hide them kissing up to fascists. It kind of works too, for the busy people. You have to check it out for awhile to understand that it's 90% shit.

  • Yes, because profit is everything. Just saying.

  • I mean, he does realize that he's the head of the ultimate "rich"?

  • In the short term, yes. You can ride a reputation for years. Now the shit has hit the fan.

  • Don't get me wrong, they have some great things about it. Garage Band, for instance. It's just not forward thinking, not quality or design oriented anymore, and tries to keep you on their cloud pretty strongly. At least that's how it was around 2017.

  • Then keep him in the c suite running the logistics, not spearhead a giant company and run their reputation in the ground. This is what you get when you don't keep the creatives in the c suite.

  • I seriously could do a better job than him. I have so many friends and family that used to be diehard apple fans to the point of nausea, that now think of it as a meh kind of company.

  • Reuters is owned/ran by a Canadian billionaire family.

    The Thomson family controlled the Thomson Corporation through a family-owned entity, the Woodbridge Company, based in Toronto. (Along with 70% of Thomson Corporation, Woodbridge also owns a 40% stake in CTVglobemedia, which now owns the Globe and Mail daily newspaper in Toronto and CTV, Canada's largest commercial TV network.) David K.R. Thomson and his brother, Peter Thomson, became co-chairmen of Woodbridge after their father's death.[12]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters

  • But it’s hard to take that argument seriously after everything guys like Altman have been saying. It didn’t even start as late as 2022, either. Back in 2015, Altman said, “I think that AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.”

  • I think OP meant insurance for non-payment.

  • Uh oh, another teleporter.

  • You could do both if you travel cheaply. Exploring keeps you healthy, consider it medicine that you need.

  • 1% chance of being enacted