the price dynamics of $TRUMP / $MELANIA basically track Trump supporters' theory of gender dynamics.
you remember how the goose that lays the golden eggs dies when they get greedy and, um, try to clone it? https://bsky.app/profile/lowrhoufo.bsky.social/post/3lg4st45cy22l
@brendan (thanks! i've tried following these directions, and just searching for "Microsoft 365 Family Classic" but it seems not to exist at this point. i don't see any family plan for less that the new $129/year.)
thank you copilot. all i want is excel on my frigging desktop.
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unironically this. https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113856024485003178
it would be funny if what happens is Trump baits firms like Oracle into violating the law and then fines them hundreds of billions and they're like we had assurances and the courts are like don't you have lawyers? the money would be enough to put a dent in a year's deficit!
@beccanalia they like having big net worth numbers attached to themselves, and Trump legit can make those smaller, or reduce their growth. say Trump, as he has threatened to, somehow exempted Meta from Sec 230 protection. it's not clear the business model can work without that. Zuck might be reduced to a mere single-digit billionaire!
@beccanalia i'm not wedded to the phrase. you do what you have to do. sometimes you shouldn't. but sometimes the cost of not doing legitimately outweighs any scruples. both Zuckerberg and Zelensky would face costs if they didn't. but i judge Zelensky's choice far more defensible than Zuckerberg's. the costs are of a different moral quality.
@beccanalia fair enough. but in addition to caution, diffidence, and courtesy, there was extreme praise. understandable, forgivable. but also factual.
@beccanalia i agree, as i suggested, the kissing up is more forgivable IMHO in his case. but he is kissing up.
we didn't actually object to the oppression. we just objected to who got to be the oppressor.
@jwildeboer it should be impeachable. what actually is impeachable is what Mike Johnson's house says it is. what is actually convictable requires 67 Senators to agree. what does it mean when our laws are so flagrantly overlooked and no one GAFs?
@paninid pretty much.
i spent a few years among idealistic cryptocurrency types. in drips and increments, the pull of payoffs drained the idealism, in my view. nevertheless, i hope to see some reflections by cryptocurrency thinkers on how $TRUMP relates to the early ideals of the community.
@eARCwelder even if Americans haven't "gotten" social shopping yet, we still have a large share of currency-exchange-weighted global purchasing power, so the prospect of, um, educating us has got to be attractive.
living in America when you consider it unethical to use products from X, Tesla, Meta, Alphabet, TikTok, Amazon, Starbucks.
one thing it does is sow marital discord.
@eARCwelder i agree that right now things are very fluid! and i agree TikTok (or CCP) might prefer to leave if the alternative is a JV. (why would that be better than the divestiture they refused?) i also agree that Apple and Google and Oracle should comply with the law, whatever Trump says about not planning to enforce it. so there are lots of ways and reasons TikTok might stay gone! 1/
@eARCwelder but if Trump wants to open the door, temporarily pr permanently, for TikTok to basically continue as it has (perhaps with some token concessions, like DoJ's antitrust "consent decrees"), why on earth wouldn't it? to its capitalist owners, the US is a huge market in which it's enjoyed great success. too CCP it's an intelligence and propaganda gold mine. /fin
Wouldn't it be more compelling if they just had an image of Donald Trump looking tough and noble as a full-page splash screen on launch of the app? https://pixel.kitchen/@jenn/113856624080710538
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just for the cognitive dissonance, it’s worth noting it’s not just billionaires and greedy capitalist businesses. if you listened to his #LexFridman interview, Zelensky also was going out of his way to flatter Trump. understandable, but it always is. arguably more forgivable under the circumstances.