Maybe our slipping standard of living is because we’re too reliant on the US as a trade partner and they’ve decided to shit all over us. Probably doesn’t help that we’re far too happy to follow America’s lead in placating billionaires and corporations with massive tax breaks while they raise prices, lower wages and push out local businesses.

LOL, maybe if we were able to design a sub that actually worked properly we wouldn’t have to go crying to other countries to buy their subs.

Unbelievable.

Can’t wait for chatGPT to call me good sir and tell me I win the internet.

There’s nothing wrong with pineapple on a pizza with tomato sauce. In fact, it’s delicious. Maybe it’s too acidic because they’re putting entire rings of pineapple on their pizza.

Also, this sentence:

“We’re showing that even an ‘Americanata’ — an American gastronomic mishmash — can gain acceptance here if it’s recreated properly.”

😒

I’m sorry to tell you that being an island doesn’t help when the internet and globalised media exist. Australia has plenty of right wing dipshits in government taking notes from the US too.

I don’t ever remember people taking Quora very seriously. It was always full of insufferable questions and replies.

Because then the company and public would have to come to terms with the fact that they are wildly overvalued based on Musk’s lies about their technology and capabilities and the stock price would tank. Also, the board is loaded with Musk cronies if I understand it correctly.

To be fair, WoW is an actual complete game, while SC is very, very unfinished. And I say this as someone who occasionally plays it and gets some enjoyment out of it.

Yeah, agreed. Although to me it all comes across like shoddy reporting of a dubious source, this is a pretty big blow to Tutanota’s rep whether it’s true or not. It’s hard to wash off the stink of something like this after it’s been disseminated to the public.

The description of Tutanota as an “online encryption service” is kind of weird, it’s an encrypted email service. I guess that’s splitting hairs though.

I use Tutanota myself but I’m in the process of moving off it, not because of security concerns but because the developers are aggressively full-on about security to the point where certain features (search, & interoperability with other clients primarily) are actually hamstrung. So the claim about them being part of some government intelligence apparatus seems somewhat unbelievable to me. But hey, if it’s true then I’m extra glad I’m moving off it.

The 1 billion termination fee only applied in very specific circumstances. He couldn’t just choose to pay it because he didn’t want to go ahead with the purchase.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-cant-just-walk-away-from-twitter-deal-by-paying-1-billion.html

Edit: Well, to be clear he actually he could decide to pay 1 billion and walk away but he would be opening himself up to a multi-billion dollar lawsuit from Twitter for breaking the contract.

They’ll never oust him. If they do, they won’t be able to ride Musk’s reputation as an engineering and tech genius and they’ll have to finally address all the issues plaguing Tesla (terrible service, unreliable build quality, various lawsuits) and I doubt they can afford to actually invest in those things and keep turning a profit.