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But the idea in early e-commerce was sane. Undercut retail on cost, increase profit. The ones that failed, failed on execution. Pets.com failed because you can't ship massive bags of food below cost and expect to make a profit.

Setting fire to cash to have the best model that anyone else can also do isn't a business model. They're never going to be able to stop setting fire to cash or they'll fall behind immediately. Their user base will not pay the bills. It's an obviously bad investment.

I'm not sure it's irrational. It's perhaps oversensitive. There are dozens of nuclear power incidents rated at levels of 5+, affecting the wider region.

In the UK, Sellafield was a nightmare. Lots of less serious slip ups and malfunctions punctuated by a few critical incidents, between 1954 and 2003. You might understand why yesterday's Green Party might think it an issue worth pursuing.

If you're willing to pay cash?

This sounds more like tax evasion than paperwork avoidance.

Epic are gleefully slopping out a new client. Is that theft, Tim?

Weird how this stuff only applies when it's not you doing it.

If that were the case, they'd have done something about it before. This doesn't appear to be new.

Facebook: demonstrates obvious risks to democracy

Polymarket: Hold my beer.

I think this is almost correct. We're living in the wall of expositious text at the start of an obscure 1970s film.

We don't know what's next except that for most of us in here, it'll be dramatically different, worthy of a 1970s film.

Plenty of interfaces mimic a form process. If that's the case, and it's really just a page positional thing (not state), I see no problem making button-based navigation.

We don't scream and shout that page nav links all look like content links, after all. Well, maybe you do, but it's not 1996 any more.

Given their output of the past two years, perhaps firing them was the right move.

I'm not one to ply Plex with praise. They've concepted and birthed every conceivable mistake in the last two years. But the player is a mess. The whole app is a mess. And because they unified, they're all a mess.

People do deserve to lose their jobs over this. I just hope it was the same people pushing for this crap in the first place.

Now I have to decide: vibe code some alterations to Plezy so I can see more than a few things at a time on the home screen, or move away completely. Anyone else facing this choice, let me know what you're doing.

I'd wait a few years before prosecuting anyone though. Or find some way to withdraw Trump's ability to pardon people for crime he enabled.

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What's also bad about all this is that journos were told to be here by the "settlers". Big international news didn't wake up that day and all decide to go to the same place, they were invited.

The settlers know what they're doing and know how it looks internationally. While the IDF, government of Israel, and the Israelis who vote for it all vote for this, they consider themselves bulletproof. They're bragging as they ruin these Palestinians' lives.

Just like Iran, this is extremism that has to be fixed internally at a very low level, but it also looks like they're just getting started. I'd make historical comparisons but I don't need to. As standalone events, these are bad enough to require action.

I'm sure the roads I drive must be different from yours, but when I started driving a Tesla in traffic, it felt like you can just teleport into spaces. The threshold for being able to overtake and pull into traffic without obstructing is so much lower.

Of course, it's also less safe. But the threat of a quick death in a lithium fire is the only reason some of us get up in the morning.

> Lobbying is how businesses talk to government.

And if it were just talk, I think people would understand, but it's the mode of discussion, and obvious quid-pro-quos that make it so alien and unpalatable to the actual electorate. And by that I mean everything that isn't a discussion in your office or theirs, with the same treatment they'd have were they to meet with a voter. A cup of coffee and some homemade cake, wonderful. An expense-paid weeklong fishing expo in Bermuda? Nah.

It's hard to have this conversation while the current US administration pillages everything not screwed down and openly give themselves immunity from prosecution, but lawmakers at all levels of all branches should serve the electorate, not themselves. That's the job.

I'm sure your company only does positive, representative things, but the relationship some of your peers have with politicians and judges is unacceptable.

I sure wonder what the US would look like if they started levying these costs on trucking.

The coasts would be fine, but getting stuff in and out of interior states would instantly hyperinflate.