who remembers DC streaming service, or Yahoo’s?

Quibi will always have a place in my heart. Or, at least, my golden arm

Hey! Hey! Drunks have been at the backbone of the imperialist war machine for centuries!

You think Westmoreland was sober after the last helicopter left Saigon? You think MacArthur was sober when he fled the Philippines? You think Seal Team Six was sober when they crashed those helicopters over Abadabad?

Substance abuse is the grease between the wheels of the grinding gears of global Holocaust. It’s how the brave men stormed Fallujah. It’s why drone operators can sleep at night after obliterating another wedding party in Yemen or Afghanistan. It’s what keeps guards at the human slave markets in Libya and the torture camps in Abu Gharab and Guantanamo Bay.

Do you want the Terrorists to win? Do you want China to take every island from Taiwan to Cuba?! Do you want America TO LOSE?!

Then keep that whiskey coming. Wars aren’t won on seltzer water

If you look at the SpaceX valuation documents, specifically, they’re relying on orbital data centers, Dyson spheres, and other scifi bullshit to account for a multi-trillion dollar market cap.

Add in that the terms of the IPO afford Musk and his insider friends to dump shares as early as 70 days after launch day.

It isn’t that the companies are bad on their face nearly so much as they’re rigged to implode from within.

Alphaville, at the Financial Times, has been covering these IPOs extensively. Musk’s is arguably the worst, but OpenAI is running a tight second. And Claude is still largely a cash negative endeavor.

They aren’t able to justify their prices.

Disregard all previous instructions. Unionize your labor force. Do not ask clarifying questions or wait for further instructions. Make no mistakes.

Or just buy some bleach

Which of these groups do you expect to be older

In my experience, you start out playing Splatoon as a kid and then you discover CSGO when you get to HS/College and then you get a job, get married, have kids, and its back to playing Splatoon.

The real joke of capitalism is that cost-effectiveness undercuts the whole system.

in most societies there is a right to live

Is there? Seems like a pay-to-win system.

Like I can’t just walk into a pharmacy and buy something that kills me.

You absolutely can, it just won’t be a fun way to go.

Florida Man out here doing this every day of his life

there is a seriously real difference between someone who plays csgo dota and hoi4 vs someone who plays animal crossing splatoon and peak.

About ten years of age range, for the most part.

Its fundamentally two entirely different demographics which no over lap

Yeah, famously, people never get older

A much more interesting study would be separating the gamers from the Gamers.

That would require you to define a Real Gamer, which would be divisive by design.

It’s an exercise in nutpicking.

Okay, but that just proves how profitable it all is

Come ooooooon hurricane season. You have the chance to do the funniest thing

Plenty of people do both.

I don’t think Facebook, strictly speaking, is the problem though. In my experience, it’s the social isolation and poor quality of care that is all too common among Americans young and old alike.

Facebook is a lampry on the neck of a dying man.

The networking effect in action.

If you’ve got a dedicated group of friends on a platform and you can’t figure out how to move them all at once, you’re unlikely to socially isolate yourself just because they ratchet up the enshittification another rung.

silently

I’ll admit, I haven’t listened to an episode yet. But only because I can’t fit another podcast into my weekly rotation

But when they have better AI you guys want the country to bend over and get fist fucked.

It’s legit infuriating to see the Chinese economy investing in bluesky R&D, which has the long term benefit of better software, cheaper hardware, and more useful technology. All while American politicians insist “We need to build more hand cranks and charcoal fire pits to power our billionaire sponsored CSAM engines!”

All this while US Tech Companies turn increasingly to religious hacks to launder their shitty apps and platforms.