I won’t be able to read it until later - anything surprising in there?

But think about it from the business’s perspective!

• lower rent

• lower utilities

• distributed IT

• all employee work online/archivable by default

• happier/healthier employees

• access to global talent pool

• easier to replace employees with LLMs!

The rabid return to office push is what really convinced me that most businesses are not in the hands of people who are trying to Do their business the best. At minimum it’s extrovert CEOs, and feckless middle managers that didn’t want to adapt

It’s literally their only pathway to even breaking even on the >$1 trillion capex. The only way any of these valuations make sense is if it lets them fire a huge chunk of workers

The water rights over the Colorado are extremely messed up. The water flow was apportioned when the river was at an abnormally high level even for the time, and hasn’t been sustainable in my lifetime even if it sort of worked. And droughts are magnifying the terrible traditional approach Expect more resource-based strife and conflict as climate change forces restrictions

And that same SS didn’t insist on metal detectors at the hotel? Or fully vet all the people staying at the hotel?

There’s a middle ground: NSA/Palantir identify a nearly harmless threat that a dude is googling what hotel it’s at and buys a 22 handgun with no firearm experience. If you’re Trump, do you arrest him at the airport or let him make a scene?

Wouldn’t those companies track us down and pass the refund on to us??

Shows the battery packs can last - that’s something. I remember when the Boston dynamics bots needed to be wired

China believes in the future. We don’t

“chocolate” in mainstream candy is such garbage now. I couldn’t bring myself to get the kiddos Reese’s peanut butter eggs this year and I used to love those

Banned in 1996 in USA. If you were born in 76 or earlier, you breathed a ton of it during brain development

Movies just have to match our expectations/senses. Math has to match reality.

I’m already pro-vax, but I started to watch a video of a baby with pertussis (whooping cough) and I had to turn it off almost immediately because it was so viscerally tragic

I’m not 100% up on the geopolitics of the region, but how the hell does Israel think that there isn’t going to be the risk of some extinction-level backlash from this? It seems like they’re picking a fight on multiple fronts

Seriously. I already don’t have streaming anything (except dropout), barely ever eat out, brew my own coffee, wear decade-old clothes, don’t drink or smoke, get movies at the library, etc… It’s like I’m involuntarily boycotting the elective economy

I think Trump wants a win and regime change but highly doubt he has the stomach for a real war with a real country. This really feels like Bibi pulling the strings

I like him better, he seems less performative and like a good man with the courage of his convictions. In TX, he’ll probably have broader support while crockett might have more enthusiastic support. Both would be miles better than Paxton/Cornyn

Oh, I also don’t like Crockett 's AIPAC support or that she jumped into the race after talarico

Probably nothing, but reminds me of Michael Hastings who felt stalked by LAPD and died in single vehicle crash Probably nothing

Yes, please. We’ve been absolutely rocked by the recent plague circulating around schools

I remember being so incensed by that. Foreign goons jumped out and put their hands on peacefully protesting Americans, with no consequences