Ngl the juxtaposition between “Pliny” and “Taco Bob” has me in stitches.

You are a pro cat namer.

Pliny is the one that’s supposed to travel, and then send you letters which range from “I saw a mountain just explode, yo” to “did you know aqueducts are like freakishly expensive” depending on whether he’s the older or the younger one.

Who knows! But I do reject the claim that you can’t be a leftist unless you engage in political violence.

This is a very old controversy in Marxist circles, and it has been known to result in people getting shot. Make of that what you will.

My man. I’ve been playing games for 40. But I don’t identify as “a gamer” because, yeah, that.

Anyway, yes, the words you choose convey meaning. Pick the ones that convey the meaning you want, or live with the meaning you convey.

I’m a gamer

Yeah, saw that one coming.

Anyway, you can say “female” as an adjective all day. It’s the noun that has really icky nonhuman connotations.

Dude, like. No. Stop digging.

FEEEEEEMALES!!!

It’s both. Most people have no appetite or aptitude for political violence.

Excellent, except for a tiny little detail:

I don’t play games to make money. I play games because I want to play games.

Cate Blanchett is the GOAT.

pet

In a subby gimp plaything kind of way.

He employs scientists. He’s just a billionaire pretending to have skills because he owns the people that do.

Sound familiar?

That’s very cynical but not entirely wrong.

No. But other people’s suffering has never mattered to him.

And an AI clone of Ronald Reagan, just to be sure.

If only they had compromised more and reached across the aisle harder. That will surely fix it next time.

Poppy mania had gone too far in the early 2000s. Now it’s just completely bonkers out of control madness.

Egg-posting at its finest.

Don’t worry, you’ll figure it out.

Listen, Intel is fucked. It’s fucked right now, and getting bought out by someone else isn’t magically going to unfuck it. Saving the company is going to take money and effort.

We can also just let it go up in flames. No skin off my back.

Let’s start with what we’re not doing. We’re not handing out money to private investors in the old “socializing losses privatizing profits” bullshit we’ve been doing since the nineties.

So, if there’s a compelling national security reason to keep the company alive, we, the state buy it. Then we, the state, run it. We run it in a way that benefits our interests as owners and customers.

Maybe a few years down the line we can find a way to sell it (or our share in it) in a way that satisfies our national security requirements and makes us a load of money. This is not unheard of, see the acquisition and subsequent sale of ABN AMRO by the kingdom of the Netherlands.

Maybe split it up, write off some parts, sell some others, keep others.

Or we strip maybe it’s IP, and license it out to contractors to get the shit we need.

We can do whatever. We own it.