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We need a new Geneva Convention that makes this a crime against humanity. Significant amounts of people in every country on Earth depend on the internet for their income and cutting undersea cables is as destructive as Rome salting the fields of Carthage.

The convenience fee and print at home fee for the last PickpocketMaster tix I bought was $12.50 and $2.50 per ticket. The real overcharge must be higher than $1.72. Especially once you factor in increased artist’s marketing costs and TicketMaster scalping their own tickets.

Step 1: Pivot from mediocre clothes to mediocre SaaS Step 2: ????? Step 3: Profit! I’m sure they will do just as well as Gamestop did.

If you loved planned obsolescence, just wait until you try forced obsolescence! Don’t worry about stuff breaking before you replace it - we’re going to break it for you, while consumer electronics prices are the highest they’ve ever been! Never forget Sony didn’t force ads on you, we broke...

He’ll get out of prison during an election year at 66 which is younger than Monroe, Jackson, Harrison, Reagan, trump, Biden, and trump. If he runs on creating jobs for millennials and making baby boomers pay for it he may win.

My brother was assistant manager at a Hollywood Video in the 90s (his best friend was the manager). Two legendary stories that perfectly capture the era: They over-ordered copies of Pulp Fiction and wound up with over 50 copies on VHS. So they started a contest and whoever recommended Pulp...

Citation needed. Zuckerberg described Twitter as a clown car that drove into a gold mine. The USA is in a similar situation. We have a unique abundance of natural resources. We have unique, defensibly isolated geography and, until recently, the most human talent of any nation on Earth. In...

Future traveller, please tell me if Half Life 3 was released in your timeline?

Who blocks the blockers? Seriously, it must be fun and tedious to be on the YouTube Anti-Ad-Blocker Blocking Team. Some of the workarounds they see are probably clever, but the backlash must be annoying. I also think about you every time I update or rotate the AdBlocker. Nothing personal, I...

100%. Google and Facebook started this trend, and now nobody in tech has customer service. It actually helps Discord’s numbers to have no support. If this poor kid and her two friends that got hacked start new accounts while the hacker keeps using the compromised accounts it doubles their daily...

An excerpt from Eigengrifters, not a William Gibson novel: Wherez watched the three holographic displays with a cobra-like focus; either someone was going to bet against Bali guano mine futures and the ghizhead would be wrong or someone was going to tie up all the Bali guano futures and the...

It's worse than that. trump is only giving money to plant operators and mining concerns. It's the Democrats who have to swoop in later to take care of coal miner's pensions and the Democrats who help coal miners with black lung disease. As per MAGA usual, trump doesn't care about the actual...

My complaint is they won’t do anything with the data to make more money. I’ve used Dynamics 365, their HubSpot competitor, and it sucks. They don’t have a lot of native integrations, the data architecture is awkward, and the UX/UI is awful. They have never made it more HubSpotty or easier to...

Two humble requests: Can you add Crysis to the Ars GoG list? Can you do a thorough, hard-hitting article on modern Crysis performance with a section about Crysis v. Crysis Enhanced v. Crysis Remastered, please? Edit to fix quote

What communist country is left? Hint, don't say China.

Frankly, I'm not sure what to make of the orb. I have seen one scan an iris IRL and it appears to work. I don't know enough about the coin attached but suspect that's where the scam lives. trump promised to eliminate the national debt in eight years, and doubled it during his first term. Lots...

I have a Vive Focus 3 that I’ve used on planes and business trips. It’s great for watching movies on the plane and runs Steam VR apps. It also uses hand gestures like the Vision Pro. It’s part of the reason I’m confused by Apple’s no-VR status - if Vive could do it, why can’t they?

It is. From the headline, I was ready to buy a vision pro for VR. Then I got to the 2D only part and don’t get it. Who cares? For $2,200 I’ll get a great, big display.

Since Sam Altman was fired by YCombinator over conflicts of interest and self-dealing, and Sam Altman was briefly fired from OpenAI in 2023 for trying to start his own AI chip company, and Sam Altman directed OpenAI to buy chips from a startup he invested in that still hasn't ever manufactured a...

Nonsense. I lived in Florida for twenty years. Hurricane Andrew hit two counties south of us, and we got sent to school the day before. I came home from school and helped my dad finish boarding up the house. We evacuated for exactly one hurricane in twenty years and went to Disneyworld. Very...