You saved me from wiping my phone this morning - thanks. I kept seeing the dot when but the privacy report only said "camera". This gives me a lot of reassurance.

Vermont outlawed billboards decades ago. It’s already happened.

I love how a Biogen conference was responsible for one of the biggest initial outbreaks of Covid, and now every senior will be responsible for paying $20 more per month for a drug of theirs that has no clinical efficacy whatsoever.

When will they ever get what's coming to them? One must wonder...

Things are really starting to feel like France at the turn of the 18th century.

> When will they ever get what's coming to them? One must wonder...

It is probably best to accept that there is no such thing as Karma in life. We don't live in a Hollywood blockbuster where the good guys win all the time no matter what the odds.

I am aligned with this and it pushes me towards vigilantism. In the words of big Sean "if you want the crown bitch you gotta take it", although here the crown is more the abolishment of the new aristocracy.

Vigilantism is execrable. It leads to redundant punishments of the very famous, no justice for most crimes, and a lot of false positives.

"no justice for most crimes and a lot of false positives" may sum up our justice system as-is?

Unfortunately that sums up vigilantism too.

The French revolution wasn't the poor against the rich. It was the rich vs the politicians and royalty.

Not sure when exactly but definitely after election financing reform.

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This is just so wrong though. The McFlurry machine is a separate piece of equipment - a “blender” that the spoon attaches to and stirs the ice cream and your toppings. That is why the spoon looks like a straw, because the spoon essentially attaches to the end of a drill machine.

What the author should have said, and they’d have known this if they talked about this article to anyone who has ever worked at a McDonald’s, was that the Ice Cream+Shake machine is the piece of equipment manufactured and serviced by Taylor. It has dual chambers that allow one to dispense “shakes” and the other to dispense soft serve ice cream.

It’s just really frustrating to see how little people even bother to understand yet try to ‘dispense’ to others that they have some sort of authority or knowledge on a topic.

I thought the antitrust bit was the interesting part of the story, though.

If we do this we also need to build Snowpiercer

Wonder if they have a heads up of the Bessemer results and are trying to save face? This PR strategy (or lack thereof) will be studied for decades to come. Mayhaps an inflection point in Amazon’s trajectory?

It's a tried and true PR response:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4

It’s because there is clearly an overvaluation problem in tech right now. ‘Successful’ depends on the ways you are measuring success.

For vector graphics use Adobe illustrator. Try learning a 3D modeling program (not sure which type of engineer you are). Don’t worry about not being able to draw well with your hand. I’m an architect and use pen+paper for thinking something through, then use software like illustrator to execute.