“It was obviously really tough, we parted with a lot of talented people we cared about" - Mark Zuckerberg

“Mark Zuckerberg made more than $28 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge” https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock-surge-mark-zuckerberg/index.html

Easily amused, you might say.

The US Attorney General John Ashcroft singing his wonderfully jingoistic 2002 masterpiece “Let the Eagle Soar”

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=woLQI8X2R6Y

yeah, but now it’s even funnier to read complaints about Swift-plane memes.

No need for /s - this is no less illogical than most of their other arguments.

At this point, I’m just so sick of every little thing being a huge struggle

Suffering is inevitable. This is the first noble truth in Buddhism. Troubleshooting Linux is Tao.

well, well, turns out he’s a complete fruitcake. Whod’ve guessed?

It is understood they were found not as a direct result of the search operation for 35-year-old Ezedi.

A sentence with the clarity of the sediment in which they were found. Good old Grauniad.

Imagine this happening today…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

“No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay. You got to pay your bills.”

Meet the (Many) Small Business Owners Stiffed by Donald Trump - inc.com

Hardly ever use Windows myself, but I’m pretty sure you can just download it from Microsoft and refuse all the nags to register it when you are installing it.

all aboard! Coming soon to your local employment office.

and they will come with full self-driving

I love you, bot.

Linux, dovecot, postfix and a large quantity of pain medication.

Hookers and blackjack coming soon.

I’m getting laid.

Every day is pizza day here!!! That’s what makes us a “Great Place to Work” (GPTW^TM)

Would you care for a chair massage?

Concur. Also long time user here - but prefer to skip the data collection bit. Imagine showing up at the dentist some day and being chided for missing your back molars last Tuesday.

The primary use case is for making sure kids and elderly loved ones are brushing their teeth and keeping the brush charged. Also supposedly senses if all teeth are being properly cleaned, although based on reviews that sounds like a stretch. But yeah, the aggregated data is probably marketable somehow - I didn’t check their privacy policies.

Electric toothbrushes are a thing. It’s understandable that the vendors would like a rationale to track usage. Not beyond the bounds of possibility that in ten years it may be impossible to buy an electric toothbrush that doesn’t track usage and try to phone home to report it.