“God has a plan.”

Two steaming turds in the toilet bowl. Will somebody hurry up and flush this shit already??

“More than I blame myself for putting them on that arbitrary, rushed release schedule, too. I’m not responsible for anything that happens as a result of my bad decisions. Only when things go right. Then that’s all because of me.”

Shirk blame, hoard the benefits — Corporate Suits in a nutshell. It’s always someone else’s fault if something goes wrong, but I’m solely responsible for things going well.

Except if she had been properly tested then, she would have been disqualified and never been allowed to participate in the Olympics in the first place. She cheated to get to where she is. The fact that she’s not cheating now is immaterial. And she’s not a child. In fact, in some countries, she’s a legal adult. She…

It’s a complex problem, for sure. There aren’t any real consequences for police officers failing or refusing to obey a lawful order from their government, as long as their superiors are fine with it. But at the same time, just because it’s a ‘lawful’ order doesn’t mean that it’s a good one, so do we really want to…

It’s okay. We’ve got a backup planet to go to when Earth inevitably turns to shit....

It’s almost as if systems that reward selfishness and greed produce progressively more selfish and greedy people.

So, a total of 10% of the NAND marketshare of a quarter, for products that probably weren’t going to hit the market for another quarter at least. Why does this sound more like an excuse to price gouge than actual substantial industry losses?

“This is wrong. We should let the markets decide!” — then

Yup. Stupidity, like corruption, is not Republican-exclusive. Democrats have their own share of dingbats, nutjobs, and idiots, too. It’s just that they’re a small minority among the Democrats, while they’re rapidly approaching critical mass within the Republican party.

The only way this setting could get more gruesome is if Kirby occasionally belched up partially digested human bones. I mean, the remorseless, bottomless pit that he is, it only makes sense where all the humans went...and I can’t say we wouldn’t have deserved it either.

It’s the culmination of a bunch of witless, no-talent suits being in charge of deciding what to make with a studio’s cash. They have no idea what works, why, and never will. So they take the path of least resistance, which is to look at what the studio owns that *WAS* successful (for reasons they don’t know or…

Just another example of how late-stage capitalism looks more and more like feudalism and fiefdoms.

First, the court doesn’t have the authority to draw district lines. They have even less authority than the existing legislature has to draw the offending unconstitutional one. Which, the state’s court has called unconstitutional, but that would have to go before SCOTUS to get the final answer. In the meantime...

And if they choose not to obey the state’s courts, what exactly are the consequences? They get everything wanted anyway — a complete elimination of democracy, where the only votes that matter are the ones the Republicans choose to allow. The perfect sham. Sure, they have to play the game more often, but if they’re…

This is one of several of McConnell’s key reasons for stacking the SCOTUS with conservative sycophants, the ultimate goal being to completely eradicate the rule of law and legitimate democracy. Something about still being butthurt about losing the Civil War and the elimination of slavery.

Let’s be perfectly blunt: Rogan doesn’t represent the values of his company because his company has no values, and neither does he. So what he’s saying is true...in the worst possible way.

This is where these current-gen systems are falling flat — they’ve not yet been trained or programmed to separate the *performer* (Hamill) from the *performance* (Luke). I’m hopeful that the next generation will have been adapted to understand the difference.

Capitalism only works when the upfront costs are manageable by individuals and small groups. It’s the same reason why capitalism *SUCKS* for infrastructure, and why the US’s major ISPs are so lazy, inept, greedy, and corrupt. Chip manufacturing falls into that same death trap — the upfront costs are so massive that…