They rose to their greatest level of success under that manager. As far as alienating? the wimps who couldn't handle the mild nothing of his don't belong on the internet let alone Mozzila... the really alienating has been done by the predecessors running Firefox into the ground and it's not because their technical staff are bad; it's always been primarily management to blame for Firefox's problems. There is no way it would be worse had he remained in charge.

I'm not young enough to enjoy the ignorance of being a happy moron. Being complacent is how things go foobar and it's only begun but you grew up in and what you think is normal was a huge step down. Clearly stuff has to get a lot worse for you to realize what is going on; if you ever do, being in a cult... the dunning krugar is strong in you.

History shows anything Trumpists are for is probably a bad thing or not based upon intelligent thought. Even a broken clock is correct a few times but that doesn't make it irrational to assume it is wrong ALL the time because your error rate is only going to be 2 instants per day and correct 99.77% of the day.

Terrorism is the primary tactic trump uses to make "deals" or have you not noticed?

Why is this not getting proper outrage? NEVER has there been an officially run foreign development zone in a nation with diplomatic immunity, like an embassy but expanded... to a privatization of embassy powers for corporate use. This is a whole new form of Fascism. Think about it. Does this not scream Pandora's box?
It is similar to past efforts to run private cities owned by foreigners (because their local gov wouldn't allow it and they have more protection being foreigners.) But this is government recognized and functionally managed by the government manager/CEO who may be hands off about their power but it is a corporation government hybrid which is the foundation of Fascism (corporatism as Musolini described in his manifesto which FOUNDED Fascism. not the same as the nazi franchise which is conveniently conflated; often using Godwin to shutdown critical thought.)

We are talking about a sick senile old pedophile who lies and contradicts himself so much that you can pretty much find a contradicting statement RECORDED for just about everything he says. One can assume anything from a contradiction (if you study formal logic you learn this. which is what makes accepting contradictions the biggest error.) The man is the embodiment of the 7 deadly sins, or more accurately, 7 of the 9 traditional cardinal sins. He is from my research of evil (something oddly people do not study but just use as a slur,) about as close to a human instance of evil I have ever witnessed.

Anything Dontardo does is most likely evil; it's a fair default assumption given his track record. You'll make less errors with that presumption.

Well, for starters, my local rep always says the media won't give them the time of day getting out any message that isn't entertaining... or Republican. The Republicans can put out a nasty remark that doesn't really convey any news but they'll do it often in unison and get coverage. Bernie does great work every day and gets only a little coverage and he is the #1 most popular politician in the world for years now, with Zelenskyy maybe leading a few times. If it's quite entertaining or embarrassing or self-harm that will get covered. It also helps when everybody repeats the same memos, like a cult or groupthink or corporate reps that they are; it's not possible to cover everybody saying different stuff... although that was supposed to be the purpose for local news services... local TV news was poor all my life but degraded and it's a joke; although, it has almost no propaganda primarily because they have so little time for actual content or competent staffing.

I knew a guy in local news. they work for the advertisers; the dems pay for ads so they get time but it's not completely fair equal coverage. A 3rd party gets beaten down by all sides and lacks the money to even get the privilege of air time; usually lucky to even get time to be attacked.

Rank voting would do more than any single act... unless you could actually restore taxes to 90% in a single act... like back when America was great.

I've been looking since March 2024. Having no reasonable options in sight, have reopened https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Finformationr.us%2F

Compared to USA, China has free healthcare. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. People pull that shit all the time to prevent any progress. You can't change until it's proven to be 100% equal and since it's a transition I want some immediate benefits in addition to parity.

Authoritarians are way more efficient than democracies. It takes a more mature advanced society to handle the responsibility of democracy than we currently have now; hence the slow collapse (Rome took 300+ years.)

Franklin said (paraphrasing,) that ANY well run government is fine but when the people become corrupted they deserve nothing less than corrupt government. Back to me, I'd add that governments are run by humans with limited lifespans and a tendency for slowly being corrupted by power and the real problem of all kinds is that the transition of power that must inevitably happen. Also, competent honest people are rare finds (which is why i am against term limits.)

China doesn't have enough prison / slave labor to scapegoat for everything they win at (which is nearing everything.) metaphorical slaves-- we have those too. Oh no, they have some tiny portion done by prison labor... the USA has prison labor too; actually slavery is still legal in the USA (just not private slavery, go read the amendment.) What is worse than slavery is desperate serfs - prison slaves are more like serfs but slightly better. A slave has ownership responsibility costs. prisoners are slightly above that. Serfs, they are zero responsibility, fire them get another - their well being is not your problem -- you just need a pool of starving people willing to take the abuse. China has a large pool of desperate hard workers, the USA does not. yet.

What China does do is competent centrally managed support systems; INFRASTRUCTURE! The USA can hardly talk about it and almost never does it except when a bridge collapses or a Biden gets into office... it's almost never enough to progress, just maintain at best.

Police, Fire, roads, water, educated workers (socialized universal mandatory high school,) legal system... all are critical for a well functioning system and ultimately CHEAPER end result. There are African countries lacking all of that which nobody will invest in or if they do, it'll not pay off in the end and is more like charity.

China has free healthcare (just like roads are "free") and free electricity (as in, non-profit or subsidized) and city planning a sim-gamer would kill to have; zero NIMBY. Their postal system will run at a loss because it's critical infrastructure while we have to make ours pay for itself with high costs and 3rd party competition and contractors which actually drive up shipping prices for everything (and has a huge wear on our roads...plus we lack trains...) Back to healthcare; that "unfair subsidy" China has-- removes what is the #1 cost for your Ford: employee healthcare benefits. Not steel, not electronics, the top cost of your truck is insurance; then it's probably wallstreet... (include healthcare then wallstreet is easily #1) and the management wages are maybe #3 or #4 on the list of bloat... heavy marketing is 1/3 of the budget as well. autos are super corrupt. dealerships are marketing overhead and many states have auto sales as a top tax income (helping defend industry status quo.)

Then you have USA auto industry sucking and just blackmail & bribing their way to survival since the 80s almost killed them. Their loophole for trucks created the SUV which is a "truck" and heavily promoted because it's the only thing that keeps them in business - the rest the world doesn't want the things but then they are not heavily marketed either... and gas prices are always low in the USA (even now; reality check! look it up. if you think gas costs you too much, then you are poor and just don't realize that yet. sad.) Do they make an affordable truck that lasts and just works?? nope. have to go back to the 80s for that... luxury "sports" trucks are all they sell with 100s of pounds of wires in them. Only amazon's Slate sells a basic truck without crap you don't want to jack up the cost... but then marketing tells you that you may as well double the price to get shit you don't need...

In this job search, Linked In and Dice- but MOST of my LinkedIn devolves down into one of the above quickly. The number of scammers on Linked In is truly awesome.

The US stock market's viability should be judged severely if they allow such a crazy move like that. It gets more like a casino all the time but this is getting like an Atlantic casino on the bring of bankruptcy.

It is almost like the movie, "Brewster's Millions" where he had a difficult time purposely trying to lose his money. All you have to do is listen to some smart people you hire and diversify.... and have a ruby mine in a trust that keeps you from ever fearing from being middle class. Gamble like crazy and your employees will work hard to try to keep their part in the bet working; to keep their jobs. Or in the case of a mobster, to stay out of jail or get protection for shielding the boss later.

Any greedy corp who can manipulate government and the public to this extent during unprecedented corruption would try move for grossly unwarranted expansion.

The richest known man had THE oil monopoly and every connected business with that. Yet we rank this mild-fraudster higher because of his crypto, over-valued stock in non-essential, not even dominating companies?! Musk's business could fold over night and it would be a blip impacting very few people.

Oracle on the other hand, powers infrastructure and is designed to be entrenched within it like a Candiru fish.

The record expensive satellite (James Webb) runs on JavaScript. and it's a 20 year old version of it.... so it probably will work quite well until it suddenly reboots.

What is worse is that next time they "vibe" code it... or replace code with a chatbot due to sposorship from OpenAI (because it's the only way they can burn money faster.)