Aaaand, if it was as simple as an executive order, one wonders why he couldn’t just pay the TSA the whole time.

Surely he didn’t just want to normalize ICE in airports before they end up at polling places.

Inb4 the White House calls it a “democrat shutdown” again.

On Tuesday, the jury deliberated for only one day before agreeing that Meta should pay $375 million in civil damages for violating state consumer protections and misleading parents about the safety of its apps.

Not enough. These corporations operate on different math. They pay no taxes. They swim in currency. Pick the biggest realistic number you can imagine and then multiply it by the next biggest. Anything less will be factored out as the cost of business.

Case in point: $375 million is a mere fraction of what Meta spends in a bunch of different areas. Compared to profits, it’s practically rounding error. It won’t affect much.

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Time for a new supervisor.

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Microsoft will have plenty more missteps as they continue to fall from relevance.

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Israel First, amirite MAGA?

WWIII will be caused by hoarding of energy. Green solutions are fantastic, but they have been kicked down the road for too long.

What’s your actual fucking goal?

I’d wager that the part they aren’t saying out loud has to do with a few different things:

1. Distraction from Epstein, which seems to be working. Iran operations now dominate the news cycle.

2. War offers some economic gains, at least in the short term for a few big players.

3. War fits into the “law and order” narrative Trump is desperately trying to milk, in a way that the DHS debacles have not done. Unprovoked attack on Iran even just as a show of force has been a conservative wet dream since at least the Bush Jr. days.

On one hand, nukes have been a clear deterrent for most of the time they have existed. Their use in these operations against Iran wouldn’t just be unprecedented, but it would be wasteful too: what targets require such firepower instead of other, more sensible options? It’s ironic, but nukes are arguably worse weapons when deployed versus sitting in their silos while deployment is threatened.

That said, “unprecedented” doesn’t mean much any more, and Trump is totally the kind of person who would drop one just because he can. Instead of “I am become death” we’d get “I am dropping a big, beautiful bomb. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

But the repercussions would be massive. On a scale not yet seen. I’m not talking about repercussions from Iran: the world would need to stand up against MAGA in a big way. Much bigger than has happened so far. I’m not even sure what it would look like, frankly.

That was a landmark case for Hollywood and changed how things are handled with regards to an actor’s likeness being used in films to which they are not attached. AFAIK, Glover got something in compensation, but it was a settlement out of court (= not public record).

I looked around me and saw blocks, floating in the sky. A turtle was at my feet, staring blankly as it approached without hesitation. Mushrooms were walking around like people; I had to jump over them or I knew I would come to harm. I found I could flatten them if I landed on top in the right spot. I knew there was a princess I was trying to save, but she was in another castle.

Pay up, Nintendo!

“Stock market surges on news…”

“Stock market tumbles due to…”

“The Dow is over 9,000”

It doesn’t matter when it’s up. It doesn’t matter when it’s down. Imagine if media started reporting on the wellbeing of actual individuals instead of the fake money wheel.

The stock market will continue to have very little bearing on the lives of average citizens. Tariffs killing small businesses? Let’s see those stories.

It’s like $120 billion right? 350 million folks in America, so if my math is right I should get… $300-something bucks!

Maybe I’ll invest it in some new food.

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This. AI is not and will not be profitable. It’s afloat because of an investor circlejerk. Once they get off then it’s over. A waiting game.

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Ain’t no time like the present to stop pretending damage isn’t already being done constantly. Time for the mooch class to pay their share.