I had bigger and redder waves than that before my hysterectomy
So that wasn't as bad as most everyone I know was fearing, although the fact that this is apparently the best outcome we can hope for means I won't be discontinuing my Spanish lessons anytime soon. I'm also trying to talk David into immigrating to Uruguay with me. He took 4 years of Spanish in high school (when your brain is much better at absorbing foreign languages). And he worked in restaurants, with lots of Mexicans and Central Americans, for 25 years, so he retained it. He's always going to be much more fluent than I'll ever be.
David: Should we shove Mom and Phil into the neighbor's pool on our way out?
Me: I mean I was planning on waiting for them to die naturally before I leave.
David: Oh, I thought we were doing this like next month.
Meanwhile, over at Twitter, the whole "let anyone willing to pay 8 whole dollars pretend to be anyone they want" thing is working out real good.
It does argue in favor of the latter option in the "Should I leave Twitter now, or have some popcorn and enjoy watching it fall apart?" dilemma.
I joined Twitter in March of 2007, before celebrities discovered it--and over 2 years before the Chief Twit did. But I gotta admit, I never really found a good use for it, especially once everyone's feeds got jammed full of content they never asked for. I mean, they insist on sticking Tulsi Gabbard into my feed, I have no idea why Twitter thinks I want to read her re-warmed Kremlin talking points.
Nowadays it's mostly a place where I yell at fascists, and also post reviews of CBD/THC products; Binoid has a rewards system and the best way to accumulate points is by posting reviews.
Elon Musk spent $44 billion because he didn't feel loved enough, but tell me again about what a galaxybrained supergenius he is, weird bootlicking nerds.
Tom Scocca's substack asks Wait, why is Elon Musk the richest person in the world? (Short answer: Because capitalism is a scam.)
There aren't really any better explanations for why Tesla, a niche car manufacturer that isn't very good at fitting pieces of cars together, is more highly valued than the world's nine largest automakers combined. Tesla's most reliable source of profit in real business terms has not been selling its own cars, but selling other, bigger car companies the carbon-reduction credits generated by its electric vehicles. How do you become the world's most valuable car company with a business model that depends on the money produced by the other car companies that are operating at a larger scale? It's as if a company selling fryer baskets to McDonald's were worth more than McDonald's itself. (If those fryer baskets also tended to fall apart, and sometimes killed people.)
David: Should we shove Mom and Phil into the neighbor's pool on our way out?
Me: I mean I was planning on waiting for them to die naturally before I leave.
David: Oh, I thought we were doing this like next month.
Meanwhile, over at Twitter, the whole "let anyone willing to pay 8 whole dollars pretend to be anyone they want" thing is working out real good.
It does argue in favor of the latter option in the "Should I leave Twitter now, or have some popcorn and enjoy watching it fall apart?" dilemma.
I joined Twitter in March of 2007, before celebrities discovered it--and over 2 years before the Chief Twit did. But I gotta admit, I never really found a good use for it, especially once everyone's feeds got jammed full of content they never asked for. I mean, they insist on sticking Tulsi Gabbard into my feed, I have no idea why Twitter thinks I want to read her re-warmed Kremlin talking points.
Nowadays it's mostly a place where I yell at fascists, and also post reviews of CBD/THC products; Binoid has a rewards system and the best way to accumulate points is by posting reviews.
Elon Musk spent $44 billion because he didn't feel loved enough, but tell me again about what a galaxybrained supergenius he is, weird bootlicking nerds.
Tom Scocca's substack asks Wait, why is Elon Musk the richest person in the world? (Short answer: Because capitalism is a scam.)
There aren't really any better explanations for why Tesla, a niche car manufacturer that isn't very good at fitting pieces of cars together, is more highly valued than the world's nine largest automakers combined. Tesla's most reliable source of profit in real business terms has not been selling its own cars, but selling other, bigger car companies the carbon-reduction credits generated by its electric vehicles. How do you become the world's most valuable car company with a business model that depends on the money produced by the other car companies that are operating at a larger scale? It's as if a company selling fryer baskets to McDonald's were worth more than McDonald's itself. (If those fryer baskets also tended to fall apart, and sometimes killed people.)