Trump: “I’ll run the USA like a company!”

How business people run companies: Fire all the competent people and replace with cheaper new hires. Report huge short term profits due to reduced payroll. Stock goes up. CEO ditches company and sells off stock before all the new hires completely wreak the company and tank the stock price.

Why wouldn’t the stock market be up at this point?

Why is Musk’s bullet shield ranked above Trump?

Well, yes, but it was a very weak case - but people were so sick of Bush that that was enough.

There is saying things, there is not doing things, and there is doing things.

Trump could say: “What if there was one day where there was no laws and people could just do anything, like the purge…” and… oh, he did say that during his first term. And democracy still survived. Saying things just make people loose respect for America. It is why Obama got the Nobel peace prize. Cause he stopped saying the shit that Bush was saying.

What people should be worried about is actions and inactions. It takes competency to do things. The more fascist a thing Trump wants to do, the more competent people leave and the less likely it is to be done. The true problem is it takes no level of competency to not do a thing.

So Trump’s end game is “Ask not what your country can do for you … because it can no longer do that.”

Shareholders can sue if the board doesn’t do the thing that will maximize shareholder value. Probably the basic underlying problem with companies that sell stock.

defusing bombs in VR

Someone has a virtual copy of “Keep talking and nobody explodes” and a Quest headset and by jobe they are going to use it.

May I introduce you to Terry Pratchett’s Boots theory?

Just don’t buy meat directly - especially if you are hungry for bat and live in China.

If you can use AI in a way that people at the AI company can’t tell that you used AI, then they need you working at that AI company.

Think the only ways to stop this is passing a bill prohibiting using money on GITMO like the Republicans did with the prohibition of spending money to close GITMO.

Or lawsuits.

If the Source is Open to copying, and I won’t get sued for doing it, well, then…

If they won’t take them, maybe we could put all these Columbians in some sort of District. A District of Columbia filled with criminals. Wait, we already have that.

You can listen to things while driving, but it is either NPR, talk radio, or church sermons.

Gen Z: Can’t read analog clocks. “What speed am I going? There are no numbers!”

No, haven’t you heard? There is an agreement in place to switch the genocide back to ethical slow-starvation by food import restrictions because-we-don’t-like-who-you-elected 25 years ago. People were prasing Israel’s restrain back when they geocided the slow way. Only had problems when the sped it up.

Iran hostage deal reached the same day Carter leaves office. History repeats.

Biden had nothing to do with the delays. It is like saying Carter could have gotten those Iranian hostages out before the election… no he couldn’t. One party to the deal was waiting until after the democrats lost the whitehouse until they accepted it.

The baby boomers are reaching the end of their lives. They are fearful of death but can’t do anything about it, so they are lashing out in other ways.

For those of you talking about 9/11, do you know that people born after 9/11 now have kids that are entering kindergarten?

That looks like the character from that meme where the cat is driving the car singing an annoying song and someone that looks like death is sitting in the passenger set quitely.

Sues. Lawyers do discovery. Tencent refuses. Court fines Tencent in contempt, rules in favor of the government. Tencent tries to bribe Trump with something.