This is a poor analogy. Those installed in Doge knew exactly the value and reason the systems. Processes, people, regulations and institutions they are deleting existed; they didn’t want them to as it was disadvantageous to their greedy fixation on omnipotence.

It’s naive to pretend it’s not deliberate.

Gotta stick to emotion, opinion and subjective, otherwise we might make progress with rationality.

The acting was good, the script was ok, I had just read and learned so much about it all in 08-12 I was over it by the time Hollywood and the rest of the world got around to engaging with it.

Margin call I watched a few years ago and also liked.

In the mortgage collapse that drove the world economy to the brink, the ratings agencies were rating dogshit in catshit as AAA, they certainly didn’t give it something more appropriate like BBB-. There was a good scene where Burry (played by Carrell) went to fitch and asked them why they hadn’t changed the rating on the MBS(shit sandwich) when the underlying mortgages were worth zero. The Fitch person said they didn’t feel the need to. They were of course being paid–and still are–by the companies they rate.

It’s unbelievable what people have already allowed, why not go for it if you’re meta?

This exactly covers the main issue. Much damage has already been done that the average person is just supposed to eat? Bullshit.

Meanwhile the airlines rolling out “free Starlink WiFi” without so much as an asterix about who provides and controls the bits you’re sending through it.

Imagine how much data musk will be able to glean getting free access to travelers internet habits and probably a lot more.

“not our responsibility, we’re just a booking portal” which is tenable as a start-up, but after a certain point, if you’re trying to build sustainable business and drive return business, you grow up and understand trust is a fundamental component of sustainable businesses.

Definitely a Dr. Evil headline. $1.3m? What is this 1992?

California: 80% of water use is agricultural and industrial but who do they lean on in drought years? Jimmy fucking John and minute showers. Corporations will not budge without force so state goes after the soft target.

Same play here.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

All the news fit to-gone! Nothing! Shop closed, bets off!

The Goat?

Meanwhile 250B unfunded to start a war in Iran from which fuckall was gained, and much other than money was lost, is unquestionably funded.

Just like afghanistan. iraq.

Probably just a coincidence.

The problem with the “reinvestment” thesis is that the US and certainly not California, aren’t some fledgling economies struggling to develop and grow–wealth is so unhealthily concentrated it leads to those with outsized portion of the gains investing in things for the sake of investing rather than actually doing anything good for the economy(let alone nation) long term.

Billionaires have wealth managers and investment teams throwing money at returns regardless of externalities, tax minimization, lobbying…they aren’t putting money into anything “real” that anyone on main street or any other street would benefit from.

5% one time seems so poorly thought out it was designed to be voted down by those who want real change (permanent, ongoing), which is anyone not in the 1%

To ensure proper pizza allocation, we will require Lazer engraving on our work unit (employee) necks here at META to ensure desirable fun ratios are achieved.

What does “X country corporation” in any industry mean when they have shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Ireland or wherever tax rates and shelters can be best structured?

Corporations have always been and will always be resource leeches that will abandon a country once they no longer have any blood left to suck. The host organism here in the US has already been overcome and Corps are about to start digesting previously pristine federal lands and forests for mining, forestry, and the critical national interest of off-road ATVing.

There are no “country” corporations, they lobbied to be extra-national deliberately.

Google Voice user for 15 years and I’ve had about 3 instances where my number wasn’t usable for 2FA, mostly because, to your point, by the time companies that care about security learned about voip #s they realized they are mostly used legitimately and sms was insecure anyway. Luckily I found a great FOSS auth app, which I prefer to sms anyway; especially if traveling I don’t have to depend on a mobile connection to be able to complete 2FA.

There has never been a bigger windbag, so he may have a legitimate claim in there somewhere.