Nothing But Trouble, so they don’t come back

4 year old article

If a billionaire is in actual trouble, he’s in China. US would have bailed out Evergrande.

The existing auto industry would squash this as quickly and effectively as possible, we’d absolutely need a command economy to put something like this through.

They say “never shit a shitter”, but apparently it should be “always shit a shitter”.

We made an automaton clerk. It has neither arms nor body, but it works all day translating physician’s documents, so they may be stored with uniformity in a library that has neither shelves nor paper.

Fantastic to hear she’s pro-Palestine, that makes her Flower Duet sound even better

goodbye paywall https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scientificamerican.com%2Farticle%2Fwhy-do-so-many-mental-illnesses-overlap%2F

The animal industries have their own lobbying and disinformation campaigns. The pro-corporate media environment is an inextricable part of capitalist society. Their CEOs and those of Exxon et al are all basically saying “we’re doing what we’re permitted to do, it’s your job to reign us in for any social good whatsoever”. Any rational actor in a society that permits this will do this if given the opportunity. They’re products of their environment. Sometimes they’ll get ratioed on X, and agree to some small concession, a mere unconscious twitch of the power of the people causing multibillion $ companies to yelp in terror.

In a way, he’s right. You can’t expect a trillion dollar private company to do anything but maximize profits any way they can get away with. It’s in the interest of the public to overthrow capitalism and the responsibility falls on us to understand this and do this. ExxonMobil exists with the consent of the masses.

I skimmed it. I don’t need convincing that NYT are lying hacks. It’s pretty small potatoes imo compared to their usual shenanigans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_controversies

I thought by the headline they were talking about this https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/

Usually NYT can be found with their lips on the metaphorical ring of the neoliberal western order, so if they’re not full-throated in support of one of its champions, that’s a little interesting but not very.

they can toe the fascist line.

Always have been https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/new-york-times-nazi-correspondent

TLDR they’re somehow not kissing Biden’s ass enough for Salon, no mention of leaks or fabricated stories

Not surprised, considering the equivalent tariffs on the import of solar modules under Biden, Trump and Obama.

Sometimes, somewhat.

You wanna go for start-ups then. Most bigger and medium-sized companies have centrally-managed security where they wanna push updates and such to all computers or there’s some corporate spyware everyone’s gotta run or they’ve got everyone on M$ Office etc etc. Odds are a place that lets you use a linux laptop is going to be reluctant to buy you one and invite you to use your own. Macbooks aren’t so bad, if they let you have sudo, lots of places use those.

Old news, he’s fired already https://syrianobserver.com/news/87867/free-syrian-army-in-tanf-changes-its-leaders.html

I’m a big fan of 120mm for the airflow to noise ratio. They tend to last. You figure they’re doing less revolutions over their life than a high rpm smaller fan.

That’s my point.

I use dawn foaming dish soap dispensers, with non-dawn soap. Suds on demand.