I remember when the Federal tax break was renewed and Ford’s response was to jack up prices the same amount. Fuck Ford. I’ve had two Ford trucks over the decades, Rangers for that that’s worth. Never had a problem with them. Despite that, I will not be buying a Ford again in my life.

This guy is such a China apologist it’s hard to listen to him. He supported the Hong Kong police. Enough said.

Upon seeing this model Johan Medici, who had spent the past decade attempting to develop computer simulations that replicate the way a human mind works, yelled,“FUUUUUUUCK!” before throwing himself out a window.

Buybacks were illegal throughout most of the 20th century because they were considered a form of stock market manipulation. But in 1982, the Securities and Exchange Commission passed rule 10b-18, which created a legal process for buybacks and opened the floodgates for companies to start repurchasing their stock en masse.

The SEC’s decision to make this shift came against the backdrop of President Ronald Reagan’s era of deregulation and coincided with the rise of ‘free market’ economists preaching a new type of social responsibility for business: increasing profits.

So, uh, yeah, it’s more of that sweet #1 bullshit from Reagan. It’s true the loss of experienced people hurt the company, there have been numerous reports on that aspect. That doesn’t have anything to do with cheating on quality inspections.

Why is Boeing such a shitty company?

tl;dw Just late-stage Capitalism in action

LOL, what a load of shitty twisted propaganda.

AI leading us cavemen into the future.

France has just made abortion, already legal, a constitutional right – a sign of the country’s morbid drive to self-destruction

LOL, check out this Neanderthal. Although I’m guessing even Neanderthals were more evolved.

I wish I were smart enough and/or educated enough beyond my undergrad Physics classes from decades ago to actually understand this. I get the big picture stuff, then as it gets into the details there’s always a point where I realize I’m decoding words, but I have no idea what the hell they’re writing about.

The times, they are a’changing. What a stupid time to be living. I do find some type of juvenile humor in a haircut being a problem at Barbers Hill.

OSIRIS-REx mission lands on an asteroid, and then returns to earth with its sample…and people are bitching because they didn’t bring back more than they could use anyway? Holy shit, talk about missing the entire point.

It’s too bad I won’t live long enough to see fusion reactors. So many social, creative, evolutionary, and revolutionary possibilities will open up with practically free electricity.

The first part of the title had me expecting something about solar panels.

They are not hiding. And if saying you’re a <fill in> is unacceptable at school and/or work, you really are in need of some deep self-reflection.

Great. Now I’m going to have to name my next dog Half_Built_Pyramids and explain that he barks at dog whistles.

You don’t want Israel to exist? And, yes, Zelenskiy was born Jewish. I’m sure he supports the existence of a Jewish state, aka a Zionist.

Why would Israel be expected to send money to the terrorists who attacked them and are still holding hostages? Or is this just trying to feed into that old trope of Jews controlling the world?

As someone who worked a few jobs over several decades, I was like you. I just wanted to work and not socialize. I just don’t really give a shit about people. The reward for doing more work was usually just getting more work added on. Over the decades I’ve watched the glad-handers and incompetents rise in both private business and gov’t. I sometimes wish I was more of an extrovert, it would have made a lot of this “life” bullshit easier, but I just couldn’t do it.

LOL. Revisionist history is the number one history.

Oh, there would still be Arabs and Jews killing each other, as they have for thousands of years. Just, maybe, less organized. It’s the Hatfields and the McCoys. Or Capulets and Montagues. In short, a tragedy.

I think thisplaylist of old Herb Gross calculus lectures is pretty amazing. Aside from video quality.