Stock buybacks are exactly as toxic and incestuous as they sound. And absolutely should be illegal or, at the very least, strictly regulated and extremely limited. Nothing even remotely good has ever come of the practice.

Like after they ‘alter the deal further’ and require that you pay them additional monthly fees to use the TV you purchased. But clearly you don’t own, since you clearly have no control over it or free use of it. You know, those ‘pesky’ qualities of ownership....

Hmm... ‘agree to our terms or else’ — the motto of terrorists, crime syndicates and, apparently, corporations. I ‘wonder’ what they could possibly all have in common that would lend itself to such similar behaviors....

Birds of a shit-slicked feather and all that...

No, but it does when it has secured the financial support of a bunch of self-serving greedy asshole billionaires who want an ‘out of the way’ island paradise to retreat to when the damage they’ve done to the rest of planet comes crashing down. There’s a reason why nearly all of Hawaii isn’t owned by the native…

It’s not just that they’re human. They’re part of an industry that is ruthlessly adherent to the dictates of profit growth (ie, to people who don’t care about the product, only the amount of personal wealth they can extract from it), which puts the people trying to work in the industry in the position of being caught…

It’s also ignoring that SpaceX has been tied up in political and regulatory red tape since Starship’s first launch attempt, and Blue Origin will too. And let’s not forget, if all NASA wanted was to go back to the moon, Falcon Heavy was capable of delivering nominal, meaningless token hardware. That’s not what NASA…

That it is indeed a high threshold of insanity.

It certainly doesn’t help that the democratic party doesn’t really treat them much better. Certainly not ‘better’ enough for it to be obvious to anyone not intimately familiar with how the US government operates. Trump’s border and wall policies are still alive and well under Biden, after all. And it’s not like…

Even more deliciously absurd is the fact that the majority of the immigrants coming into the US are highly religious (Catholic, Christian, etc). They’d be a *LOCK* for Republican votes if the party could let go of their ethno-fascist Nazi-wannabe white-supremacist bullshit. But no. Their hate for not-white people is…

The only thing I care about when it comes to device screens is that they don’t *shatter*. Stronger glass might not scratch, but when it’s impacted with enough force, it will shatter instead. As such, the best glass for devices isn’t one that’s strong. It’s one that’s flexible and — most importantly — can be easily…

Just in case, you know, you needed another reminder that the fundamental driving force of capitalism — the accumulation of private capital — is incompatible with a sane, functional, healthy society.

How do you *TEST* a design to verify that it actually works as intended without, you know, LAUNCHING IT. No amount of simulations will make a perfect rocket. Because it’s impossible to simulate the unknown. Starship is loaded with unknown factors. It is the first of its kind in many, many ways.

No, it didn’t. Japan was ready to surrender well before the first nuke dropped. So nuking Japan wasn’t strategic or tactical and played no role in WWII. It was purely for the lulz of getting to see how much damage a nuke could do in a real-world environment.

Another shining example of how “When the profit motive becomes unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen....”

As someone who has created 3d head models from references, it looks like someone used stills from the show without sufficient references to cancel out the effect the camera lens has on front profiles. The heads are all squished horizontally. That definitely doesn’t help. But if you account for that, the likenesses are…

When someone tells or shows you who they are, believe them the first time. This stupid idea of theirs may have gone over like a lead balloon, but they’re not going to stop trying. This is how they think, how they see the world and their ‘role’ in it. It’s who they are. The snake eating its own tail isn’t a cautionary…

Projecting a context-sensitive UI into the world around you has potential value. It’s just, well, the *context-sensitive* part hasn’t full materialized yet. Which is to say there isn’t enough ‘context’ to which the Apple Vision has anything to contribute. Could there be? Absolutely! At some point. But that ‘point’…

Only property, something that is ‘owned,’ intellectual or otherwise, can be stolen or pirated. Something the owner of said property can be deprived of. Publishers like Nintendo claim the games players buy aren’t their property — discs, licenses, what have you — so no owner is being deprived of property when access or…

Success in creative endeavors is a lot of luck and big chunk of name recognition. Because all the skill in the world — without at least one of those two — won’t amount to anything. So yeah, I get his comment about ‘not knowing.’ You just can’t know if something is going to resonate with an audience or not. You can…