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Comment Re:First Amendment (Score 1) 120

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.

Comment Re:Nothing changes (Score 0) 121

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)

Comment Re:They worried about Florida Man (Score 1) 45

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.

Comment Re:How about fruit (Score 1) 154

The problem isn't when they're picked, it's the cultivar. They're optimized for even ripening, longevity (thick skins), and truly extreme yields.

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.

Comment It kind off happened already (Score 1) 79

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.

Comment $3 Trillion off the books commitments (Score 5, Interesting) 90

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.

Comment Re:We'll have just ONE unit. The BEST unit. (Score 2) 260

Trumpdick ia a poor unit of length because existing accounts clearly show that is now very flaccid and squishy.

It might work as a unit of volume at this point because like his brain it 100% nonfunctional.

His obsessive use of terms like "super" are another clue he is desperately trying to overcompensate for this.

Comment Re:NO one thinks this merger is a good idea.... (Score 1) 120

In the real world this is an example of looting. This is not about well considered business or financial decisions, it's about stealing wealth and taking it away. The way you describe the California AG makes your embrace of corrupt practice undeniable (although I know you will never admit it).

The enterprise of the film community has thrived in California for such a long time because it is liberal environment. There is room for individualism and inclusiveness, and this was true before DEI was ever a thing. Both Southern California and the SF Bay area, where much of this is located, have been open to all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds from all over the world.

It's an ecology, and if you rip it up and put it in an overtly hostile environment it will wither and die. How can you imagine that international talent wants to relocate to the MAGA confederate south? How can such a backwards place appeal to in international audience? Tennessee is ranked 42nd in this wellness rating, just above Alabama. California rates 6th.

As far as I can tell the only innovation our of Tennessee in the 21st century is Nashville Hot Chicken. Oak Ridge National Lab doesn't count because it is 100% the creation of the US government.

Comment Re:Not just there (Score 5, Informative) 145

There are multiple sites in the ocean off Southern California including dumped munitions, low level radioactive waste, sulfuric acid, and toxic petrochemicals chemicals.

There is a Superfund site at he former location of the Montrose Chemical Corporation in Torrance where much of the DDT related waste was illegally dumped off Palos Verdes.

The full extent of the problem is still unknown. “The more we look, the more we find, and every new bit of information seems to be scarier than the last... This has shown just how egregious and harmful the dumping has been off our nation’s coasts, and that we have no idea how big of an issue and how big of a problem this is nationally."

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