I ran this through the translator. "Having a dedicated home with Prime Video allows us to build on that legacy with unprecedented global reach and a broader commitment to the Television Academy and our mission throughout the year."

It came out "Jeff offered more money."

This is all about getting us to have warm fuzzy feelings for our Flock protectors. Probably so we are willing to report the vile criminals who vandalize them to steal the valuable metals and precious SSD, HDD and memory components inside.

Because anything not at the whim of Trump and his gang of degenerate thugs will offer more national security then counting on the US.

It's already the case that European government are moving their physical gold reserves out of the US because they know that Trump might steal it. It's clear that besides looting the US Treasury for his personal gain, he's turned the entire country of Venezuela his personal piggy bank.

Are you stupid enough to think that just because Microsoft is a huge financial entity that he won't use it to get what he wants? We all know that anything that MS controls is riddled with back doors ans this administration has already used them for financially corrupt reasons.

This is a permanent change. Post Trump no county in the world can trust the United states on anything. We make China look honest.

I understand almost none of it, but sometimes I plow through things like this to try and get a bare glimpse of what's going on.

It's a theoretical study of the interactions of phonons, i.e. quantized vibration in condensed matter. If the phonons have handedness then pseudo-particles can form have eight fold symmetry. They suggest known physical system with these properties and how they might be detected.

That's all I've got. Sorry no pussy jokes. Maybe this time I'm the grownup in the room.

Maybe it will be some sort of involuntary trade-in, where after they seize your Mac or (gasp) Linux system you will be handed a shiny new top of the line Windows machine. How can you complain with such an obvious trade up for Freeeeeeee!

BTW, is it legal to use Linux to do official business in Washington state? Asking for a friend.

ChatGPT driven human surgery preformed on themselves or a family member.

It's fine if you do it in a parking lot. It will be easy to hose off afterwards.

Right wing freedom of speech bullshit. When you are an elected official you are not supposed to make money from your official position. In the real world it's impossible to completely stop this, but if one had any integrity it wouldn't happen.

If Obama had sponsored as meme coin when he was in office your brain would have exploded. Your hypocrisy so toxic it's surprising you haven't died from it by now.

If you used that line against Trump you would find yourself facing charges of threatening his life. See 86 47.

Do you think that endorsing terrorism is a joke?

You are a sick fuck.

Big chain fast food is the shortest path to consuming Trump's tainted overseas mystery meat. They all use the lowest quality/cheapest ingredients and want to have as little as possible product in inventory.

Maybe someone who is an outsider will start monitoring for toxic ingredients in the food supply, but for the foreseeable no government entity or business will check anything. Even if problems are detected everyone will keep quiet because they are afraid of the wrath of the Orange Tyrant and his brain worm rotted sidekick RFK Jr.

It's a certainty that Trump sill eats a mostly McDonald's diet because he has lifelong food paranoia. It also extremely likely the version he gets is completely different then what normal people eat. They use real McDonald's packaging but use less-toxic ingredients, and much lower amounts of added salt. His health is so bad that if he was mainlining real junk food he would have keeled over by now.

It's not impossible that an animatronic version is in the works. The public unveiling of the zombie Mitch McConnell may be a trial run of the future immortal President for Life Permanent Fearless Leader of America Forever USA.

(Note: for the MAGA/Republican/brain-dead true-believers, the previous sentence was low quality satire, not a threat against Trump. See 8647)

So what? The heard immunity of the general population even protects religious fanatics up to a point. It's when death cult Republicans with organic brain damage (RFK Jr.) get even more idiots to jump on the stupid train that these types of outbreaks become more common. Given that those with reduced immune responses are much more at risk, calling out death cult Republicans is an accurate description.

This is why heirloom tomatoes are so much more appealing then generic chain grocery tomatoes. If you get heirlooms the shoulders, the part near the stem, will not necessary look as ripe as the rest of the fruit. Breeding for uniform ripeness and thick skins decreases flavor and texture.

Buying heirlooms at chains, even the high price ones, is no guarantee of good flavor. The intrinsic shorter shelf life and thinner skins make the supply chain/shipping effects more noticeable.

If you get small cherry/grape tomatoes, even at a big chain, you will have a much better shot at getting good flavor and texture. You loose having a nice big juicy slice, but the flavor is much more likely to be good.

Never refrigerate tomatoes, it ruins them. Better to have them get overripe/soft then the flavor/texture destruction of refrigeration below 7-10C/44-50F.

Blockbuster got caught having two copies of their web page. The external one had lower prices, but in store prices were higher. If a customer said the saw a higher price in person the clerks would go to a in store computer showing the higher price.

What were the repercussions? Almost nothing. They paid a fine unrelated to how much money they stole and promised not to do it again. No individual received any direct compensation.

Just like a class action suit. Normal business practice. Nothing to see here, move along.

From the Deja Vu all over again department:

Investor Michael Burry of The Big Short fame issued a fresh warning on the AI boom, observing that the hyperscalers leading the charge are amassing $3 trillion in financial commitments that aren't reflected in their balance sheets.

"These liabilities, I say, are, in essence, in hypergrowth mode," ... Burry singled out Amazon, Meta Platforms, Alphabet, Microsoft and Oracle for proceeding with enormous capital expenditures.

Michael Burry was of the figures in The Big Short which depicted the 2008-2010 financial meltdown. Burry and a few others understood the over-leveraging in housing market lending and correctly predicted it's crash, so his track record is very good.

The accounting trick this time is that the contractual commitments don't show up when they are made.

The pack of hyperscalers is holding $1.2 trillion in future lease commitments along with $1.5 trillion in commitments to purchase AI-related hardware and equipment, such as memory chips. The latter can be kept off a firm's balance sheet until the products ultimately reach the hyperscalers and each party fulfills its obligations under current accounting rules.

The crucial difference this time is the explosive growth of the National Debt created by tax cuts for billionaires and a ruinous unnecessary foreign war. Ordinary tax payers will be the ultimate victims if history is any guide.

Just got a little funnier.

Equally obsolete regressive units.