It was over when Abe Lincoln wrote the Declaration of Independence.

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Buy it with what? Billionaires don’t hold money, their valuation is all in stock value.

I think you’re giving them too much credit. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.

Every year when the clocks change people are cranky and start demanding this kind of thing be eliminated. Politicians capitalize on it and say they will do something about it. In a couple of weeks everyone forgets about it.

In the end, the government can’t do anything about the tilt of the Earth and there is no time system that can be devised that will make everyone happy. Many people like having more light in the evening and wouldn’t be happy if DST were eliminated. People are going to be cranky for a couple of weeks in the year but it’s generally considered worth putting up with so people have more daylight in the evening rather than having it before they wake up.

Changing working hours would be decided by individual businesses and inconsistencies on this would be a logistical nightmare. Delivery of materials are suddenly an hour later and you have a bunch of people standing around with nothing to do. Or maybe it’s earlier than usual and it comes before your business is open.

Signage about business hours would have to be changed twice per year. A customer not aware of the change in business hours may show up too early or two late.

And it would be an insane amount of work to change all the schedules of automated systems to conform with business hour changes that happen twice per year.

So to avoid these kinds of problems you need the entire society to change their schedules consistently. It’s easier to change the clocks than to change everything other than the clocks.

I think they’re referencing Liam Neeson in the movie Taken in a lame attempt to sound like they’re badasses.

Or are you asking who they’re threatening? You weren’t invited to the “Houthi PC Small Group” chat on Signal along with everyone else?

I’ve heard that criminals and terrorists use telephones. You have a phone? Hmmmm… you seem suspicious to me!

Yeah it’s just people being ignorant. They’re unfamiliar with Signal is so are susceptible to believing all kinds of shit about it based on negative associations.

If someone asked that, it would just be edited out of the recording.

So basically it would just be: YOU HAVE NEVER SAID THANK YOU!!!

That’s not a problem after you’ve had your fingers sliced off when you close the hood.

Musk has lost about half of his money because much fewer people want to buy a Tesla now.

Yeah but I kind of expect every CEO to be on that level of douchebaggery. We wouldn’t be able to buy everything if that’s the bar, because the CEO of every company is on that level.

Also we can’t expect everyone to be aware of that story.

It’s when he bought Twitter and started going on about woke mind virus that he revealed himself as a bigger douche than most CEOs.

One time a VP decided to jump in and be a developer and he just pointed a bunch of cards when the dev that was really going to do the work was off for the day. Obviously the points were way too low, so I just padded out the rest of the cards knowing the 7 points on the cards the VP pointed was going to be the entire two week sprint for the other dev and I’d need to to whatever else was put into the sprint.

And that’s how I found out the Product Manager was putting the points into a spreadsheet to track how many points each individual dev was doing. He was actually upset at me for doing 20 points in the sprint. Sure, I padded them out, but why wasn’t he bothered by the cards that had too few points on them? Just upset his spreadsheet was screwed up, but couldn’t be angry at the VP that under-pointed a bunch of cards.

Yeah that’s what I was thinking. There’s a bunch of ways to track what users are doing without needing to use referral links.

Seems to me the referral links are there to prevent honey cookie shenanigans.

Spoliers: Dr. Metropolis is revealed to be a villain that was working against the heroes the whole time.

Step one is to secede from the US. You aren’t actually going to be part of Canada, but an EU style arrangement in North America could happen.

Unfortunately the tools of statecraft aren’t all that granular. To make the Trump regime suffer, many Americans will suffer even if they don’t support Trump.

That’s true. But it’s also true that the guy isn’t immortal.

Yeah but there wasn’t an algorithm picking out all of that shit and giving us a constant stream of 100% pure troll heroin.

Seeing one post in fifty telling you garbage puts it into the context of “that guy is saying some weird shit”. Seeing only garbage in your feed makes it seem normal and those opposed to it are the weirdos.

Nobody in Russia was desperate to invade Ukraine. But when your country is run by an idiot, any stupid thing is possible.