At my local zoo, there are two pandas named Hentai and Bukkake. I keep my distance when visiting. Mostly.

“Move fast and break things” was cute when it wasn’t propping up the entire American economy.

Well, if they rere trying to put their political enemies on a war footing, this is a fine way to inspire it.

On a related note, I was unaware there was international funding available. Do I get double payments for being both anticapitalist AND transgender?

I would say leakers are acting ethically.

Trumpers AND Android users. Truly the bottom of the barrel.

/s

Psychopaths gonna psycho.

They do not see most of us as actual humans. So, who cares if a few of us get blown away, or tortured, drowned, deported, beaten, or robbed? They are above such plebian dalliances.

FEAR! FEAR THE DRIZZLY SHITS! OOOOGA BOOGA BOOOOOGA

I assume the reason they want to involve faith-based organizations is so there’s a local representative present for us to yell at after acts of God destroy our entire city.

You’re not wrong. But I also think this point of view is perceived as a kind of auto-fellatio.

I think the negative reaction from us, the great unwashed, is due to people being so sick of political processes devolving into a meta-game that revolves primarily around the ability to think cynically and act tactically.

Meanwhile we’re out in the world, dealing with fallout from actions in that sphere that don’t make any kind of sense to the material reality of most people. People with rent to pay and groceries to afford and gas to pump.

Playing 4-D chess with the law of averages, playing the long game, and cornering other narcissistic kitten-eaters in saying and supporting things that, on their face, sound horrible… We’re just not sophisticated enough to understand it’s part of the process. We have problems that need solving right now and whatever tactical victory that moves an abstract chess piece forward doesn’t seem to do anything to remedy that.

Do not tolerate the intolerable.

Old age is a gift. I plan to make the most of it.

Currenly I’m in my early 50s and some of my friends are not taking care of themselves. They are not exercising, not eating properly, not cultivating their social circles or participating in their communities. The decline is beginning to be more evident and I’m NOT here for it.

In addition to being at the start of Second Puberty™, I’ve lost about 160 pounds over the last few years, have a well-researched supplement regimen, hit the gym, go rock climbing, and ride my bike all several times a week. Will it let me reach immortal escape velocity? Probably not, but I am looking forward to being the hottest trans dyke in the village.

For those of us who are not well-versed in corporate bookkeeping, I looked up what the hell cost of revenue meant:

The cost of revenue includes expenses that scale directly with sales volume. These typically include:

• Direct Materials: Raw materials or inventory used to create the product.
• Direct Labor: Wages for employees directly involved in production or service delivery (e.g., factory workers or customer support in SaaS).
• Distribution & Shipping: Costs to transport the finished product to the customer.
• Transaction Fees: Credit card processing fees and bank charges related to sales.
• Platform/Hosting Costs: For software companies, this includes server maintenance and data center expenses.

I think its interesting how that debit bucket is separated out from operating expenses. It seems like paying for materials and labor would be part of the R&D bill, for instance. Seems like a pretty fine line that might let companies shade the truth about their success or failure, for the benefit of shareholder perception.

So, business as usual, then?

Under His eye.

That’s my girl.

I would say their primary objective was not acually deporting people. Their objective was to punish a city and state that was not demonstrating the correct level of submission to the fascist administration.

They were in Minneapolis.

The Rotor Propulsion Laboratory

100% ^^ this right here.

Valve is one of the very few big companies I am totally fine spending money with. The value proposition is entirely focused on the products and how the customer, me, gets the most from them. No artificial scarcity, no protectionist bullshit, no outrageously exploitative EULA or obvious shafting of vendors. They focused on creating something useful and functional, and they profit from it. Bravo.

And they have been doing this for decades. The first PC I installed Steam on was a Celeron with a Voodoo2 GPU in it.

I have to do business with other companies because they have driven other competitors out of business. I get to do business with Valve.