I found this morsel particularly poignant:

"Ironically, Meta expected rights groups to be too busy to step in, given the disastrous geopolitical climate.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” the document reads, as quoted by the NYT."

Just for clarification: with these style of posts, am i supposed to read the bottom one first? I can’t remember when these types of posts came into circulation, but I’ve been puzzled about them ever since. It’s like the first/top line is sometimes the punchline, and i feel like i spoiled a joke or story by reading it from top to bottom.

❤️❤️❤️ that is a screen that would have put a tremendous smile on my face back in the day. Hell, it perked me up quite a bit just now, lol

My presumption is that’s exactly what would happen

I find it interesting that everyone expects an artist–someone who makes far less–to continually come up with good ideas or become irrelevant… but fuck-faces like this have one success and never have to come up with anything even remotely good ever again

Vicious circrule

Fitting that these children are using fables to express their sentiments

It’s awesome this 25+ year old system is still getting love from the community. The Dreamcast was really cool for it’s time. Reminds me of when i was still optimistic about new consoles… Not that it was the best ever by any stretch but it did enough to earn it’s place in my collection.

Thank you for your attention to this matter 🙏

especially from the West

China didn’t surpass the USA, the USA slunk behind China. They didn’t get better, but we got a lot worse ✨

Apple products about to get even more expensive!

…and make their competitions products more expensive too, i suppose

It’s a win-win really 🫠

Imagine pouring your years and efforts into making this company the giant it became, and this is how they repay you. I have to imagine it’s gonna be hard to find a new job at the same pay level etc, considering everyone is currently making big cuts to their workforce 🫠

“After careful consideration of Oracle’s current business needs, we have made the decision to eliminate your role as part of a broader organizational change,” copies of layoff notification email viewed by Business Insider stated. “As a result, today is your last working day.”

Oh, and one last thing:

Oracle declined to comment.

In case anyone doubts what you said:

Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Dan Caine also celebrated the use of the PrSM in a press conference on March 13, reported the BBC, saying the US military had “made history” and carried out attacks with “precision and determination that comes from relentless training and trust in each other and in their weapon systems.”

It takes a good guy with a metal-bristle grill brush to stop a bad guy with a metal-bristle grill brush 🥂

Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged “a few errors” in the case and pledged changes in their operations but stopped short of issuing a direct apology.

Surprise!!!

Isn’t that what happens to anything commercially successful now?

This is exactly my mindset these days. I never managed to get ahead, hell i barely ever managed to catch up. I’ve been paranoid in the past about my inability to put aside any savings, but now i don’t even think it matters. In the end, the healthcare industry will ultimately take all of my money–there’s no way i can afford treatment for even minor problems, much less the big stuff that lies in wait for us when we get older. So why bother trying to create a savings–just to have them take it all away? So i can squeak a couple more years of life, penniless after having battled cancer? Fuck that.

This is probably not far off from what it’s like to be at that airport right now.