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This is the same site owner that allows Alberta pro-separatism pages to operate out of Kenya and India with impunity.

Amazon didn’t borrow anywhere near this much. They also had the sales tax loophole that let them outprice the competition and take their market share for over a decade.

And I suppose you could sketch on notepad with ASCII but some might prefer the cave-painting primitiveness of pen and paper.

There is a moat: government contracts. Everything from NSF grant reviews, drone warfare, DHS visa processing and Medicare/Medicaid claims processing are up for grabs under the right administration.

small price to pay to circumvent being bought off by big business at every possible opportunity.

if they were making profits now, it would set an upper limit on the number they IPO at. Losing money however? Sky's the limit.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Oh yeah, who wouldn't prefer to look at their phone instead of banging?

People have had the baby conversation. The stumbling block is money, not Reels or Tiktok. A 50% drop in fertility if true, is low compared to the percentage increase in the cost of childcare, nutrition and education. Especially in a country like Argentina where the locals do not see a future for themselves there even as the billionaires like Gates and Thiel buy up farmland and luxury real estate like no tomorrow - pun intended.

She's in prison because she defrauded enterprise customers. If she went B2C, she'd probably be head of the FTC by now.

World's best AI models doesn't offset public resentment caused by putting data centers in residential areas, openly buying off the White House and Congress with PAC "donations" and constantly threatening to eliminate everyone's job.

As if the endless deluge of AI, Meta Glasses and Flock camera articles are full of friendly banter.

Well before 9/11, US troops were intervening in Somalia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Iraq, Haiti, Panama, Libya, Lebanon and Grenada.

2029? By then the pendulum would swing back to it being considered "deep state intervention" and a "waste of taxpayer funds" especially since "the national debt is higher than ever".

If a site has PayPal as a payment method, I'm using PayPal. It's a million times more convenient than punching my CC into yet another site.

I don't use mobile wallets. I've had a PP account since the time it was required to buy anything on Ebay.

The best feature it has is being able to cancel newspaper subscriptions without the hassle of calling and talking to a retention agent.