have prioritized large trucks and SUVs because they get better profit margins

And you have tariffs to thank for that, in no small part.

Well they’ve researched some new ways to kiss the emperor’s ass

Internet Archive has it too:

https://web.archive.org/web/20261007144205/https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-sons-investments-won-billions-pentagon-contracts-election/story?id=137049598

It’s an interesting story, but the comments over there throw some plausible doubt on the “decompiled” aspect.

I don’t know what to make of this.

It reads like someone who hates the president very much was ordered to write a piece softening this latest outrage. In the process, he points out that the president is exactly this malicious all the time, that it’s completely in character for him to say a thing like this and apparently to mean it, and that his fans cheered the idea of thousands or millions of Americans being killed by a foreign power. A light edit of the headline and the article could change the point its making completely.

Maybe the article doesn’t matter. Sure, I know we all read the article before reacting, of course we do. But how many people read the whole article these days? Maybe the headline and the outlet together (“CNN is saying…”) are the real payload.

Alito points to disputes involving LGBTQ+ rights as evidence that “support for religious liberty has cratered.” He cites cases involving businesses seeking religious exemptions from requirements governing services for same-sex couples or employee health coverage, including those that refuse to provide wedding services to gay couples or seek to limit health care for employees based on religious beliefs.

Corporations are people, and people are not people. That’s the “culture of life.”

Welcome, comrades, to centrally-planned economy.

Imagine another headline for the same facts:

“Google cofounder so rich he could afford to pay $13 billion in taxes”

It’s a satire about the American Military-Industrial complex, the way it’s steered by a few powerful assholes, the way it responds to catastrophes (including self-inflicted ones like climate change), the way it has created our post-truth age. Cruise is an oil man, Goodman is the US president.

That’s what I thought the trailer was telling me, anyway.

…it is important to note that shareholder primacy theory was first advanced by economists, not lawyers. This may explain why the idea that corporations should be managed to maximize shareholder value is based on factually mistaken claims about the law.

– The Dumbest Business Idea Ever. The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value, By Lynn Stout

To the English-speaking world and probably beyond.

My Windows 2000 machine had 512MB of RAM. With it I could browse the web, run full-featured word processors, scan images, edit images, play 3D games, edit / compile / debug C and C++ programs, and so on.

If memory serves, my office machine about that time only had 128MB of RAM. It was slower, but it could do just about all of that stuff, too.

I’m not sure there are any broad categories of tasks I use computers for today that I wasn’t already using my Windows 2000 machine for back in 2001 or so.

It’s hard to fathom where all the RAM in modern systems goes. A million somethings is a lot. A million bytes is a huge amount of information. War And Peace is under four million characters.

The reality: “Nobody stops to fuel their vehicle taking gasoline, gets out, rushes as fast as possible, puts as much fuel in the car as possible, and gets back in the car and drives away,” Cutler said.

Say what? Outside of a long road trip, that’s very much what I do every time. I haven’t been into the store at my gas station in years. I’m hardly alone, I see plenty of other people fill up and leave.

The “charging problem” is most completely addressed by doing less driving. Obviously.

It was President Nixon who last tried to eliminate the spring-forward/fall-back. Now the regime is trying to rehab Nixon’s rep.

Is this a meaningful coincidence? A stupid coincidence? Both?

So is this that moment when he rises to the occasion and finally becomes presidential?

This guy has been making headlines like this for a long time. This bit in Daily Kos, from just over a year ago, includes him, for example.

One thing to bear in mind: These folks are very, very few in number, but they’re making a lot of noise. The foolishness of their choices is getting them a lot of media amplification. They’re infamous. They don’t represent a real trend of “moving to Russia for traditional values.” They’re really just examples of the much more general “doing outrageous things for online clout” phenomenon. They turn their lives into catastrophes for attention. De-influencers? Is there a name for this?

Piles of LITTER

Paths with questionable DEFINITION

Vance claimed that his opponents wanted to block Republicans from ever winning elections again and “transform” America, citing such issues as acceptance of transgender Americans.

Oh noes not FREEDOM anything but that

“This is the future and if it fails I stand to lose billions so you definitely don’t want to be left behind, do you?”

“…and that’s why I’ll be voting for some different Republicans this November,” many of them said, probably.