“It was obviously really tough, we parted with a lot of talented people we cared about" - Mark Zuckerberg

“Mark Zuckerberg made more than $28 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge” https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock-surge-mark-zuckerberg/index.html

The US Attorney General John Ashcroft singing his wonderfully jingoistic 2002 masterpiece “Let the Eagle Soar”

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=woLQI8X2R6Y

No need for /s - this is no less illogical than most of their other arguments.

well, well, turns out he’s a complete fruitcake. Whod’ve guessed?

and they will come with full self-driving

I love you, bot.

Hookers and blackjack coming soon.

Every day is pizza day here!!! That’s what makes us a “Great Place to Work” (GPTW^TM)

Would you care for a chair massage?

Concur. Also long time user here - but prefer to skip the data collection bit. Imagine showing up at the dentist some day and being chided for missing your back molars last Tuesday.

Rupert Murdoch is Australian and still owns a great deal - possibly most - of the popular media. The beaches are nice though.

The primary use case is for making sure kids and elderly loved ones are brushing their teeth and keeping the brush charged. Also supposedly senses if all teeth are being properly cleaned, although based on reviews that sounds like a stretch. But yeah, the aggregated data is probably marketable somehow - I didn’t check their privacy policies.

Electric toothbrushes are a thing. It’s understandable that the vendors would like a rationale to track usage. Not beyond the bounds of possibility that in ten years it may be impossible to buy an electric toothbrush that doesn’t track usage and try to phone home to report it.

Awesome! Here – enjoy another mocha latte on us!

Great idea! Here’s a starbucks gift voucher for your initiative! Now if we can just figure out how to simulate pizza…

Hey thanks for explaining this. I trust you more than TEPCO. I do actually feel somewhat reassured now.

“Highly radioactive water has leaked from a machine to treat contaminated water at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, though radiation monitoring reportedly shows no impact to the outside environment so far.”

I feel so reassured.

wasn’t it originally idiotically named “SQL/Server”?

so long and thanks for all the fish.

Quick! Somebody order more pizza and ping pong tables…

ahem - nobody I know will use X.

Loose (verb) = “to let loose” = “to free” (verb), so “loose their power” implies freeing or expressing their power. (Having power)

Lose (verb) = “to not have any more” (lost), so “lose their power” implies no longer having their power. (Not having power).

“Loose” and “lose” are completely different words. “Loose” is commonly written incorrectly online for “lose”, so many English speakers make this mistake when writing it.

Editing to add that “loose” is very rarely used as a verb in the way described - it’s archaic and nobody would use it in conversation - it is normally an adjective meaning “not tight”. The main thing is to remember that “lose”, like “lost” is spelled with a single “o” and “loose”, like “not tight” has two.