Reminds me of this:

https://xkcd.com/1685

But you’re not focusing on the mirror; you’re focusing on the reflection ‘behind’ it.

No longer apex. I can kill a Great White… With plastic rubbish!

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Colonel Linux and his army of daemons!

I had no idea this was a thing. Thank you!

It’s the canonical choice

Aw, cheer up; someone will apply you in thirty to forty years.

The real problem these days is with intensive almond farming. Almond tastes better from free range almonds, with space to graze in peace and calm between the bushes.

Have you heard of “bitter almonds”? Turns up in mystery novels. It’s what you get from caged almonds raised on steroids.

Cabbages are actually tree trunks

Raspberries are actually tubers

Wheat is actually a berry

And oranges are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings

Also acorns are the progenitors of oranges.

In related news, Americans wear thongs on their feet.

I recommend grating cheese over your fries before warming them up!

We know that community ownership of those things causes them to perform better.

Do we? I don’t think so.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d definitely prefer community ownership of these things. But I think community ownership going better is very situational.

The idea of the benevolent genius billionaires

Meh - I haven’t seen any of those around. Certainly wasn’t expecting any.

But neither of those is the point. Saying, if wealth were evenly spread around, everyone would have such and such amount of money is, I think, misleading at best. It sounds like you’d have that much in available money, to spend on yourself. But you wouldn’t - or if everyone treated it like that, the economy would collapse, and your wealth with it.

In a way, I think it actually highlights how ‘little’ billionaires have! That $400k or so is not really that much, when considering a house, car, children’s education, healthcare - and don’t say healthcare is provided by the state, because now the state’s wealth is evenly distributed to you, so socialised healthcare comes back out of your pocket.

Take away the “reinvested profits”: the factories, the machines, the “stuff we use to make stuff”, and distribute only the spending money of America equally amongst Americans, and the median household will grow - by the sounds of things - much less wealth than I might expect!

That’s not to take away from the manifold abuses and theft of the rich at the top of the economic pile against the poor (and the not-so-poor). Nor to say we don’t need reform. And again I say, I would prefer the capital and means of production etc to be in community/shared ownership: even if that means new problems. Just that I think this particular claimed metric of shared wealth is misleading.

Meanwhile women are hand-coding in assembly, like God intended.

Oh dear, that is excellent.

“It’s okay, I’ll just ask ChatGPT.”

Asks ChatGPT about new feature.

ChatGPT makes up a completely fictional answer that sounds plausible given the state of the repository two years ago.

Oh yes please. But not JavaScript. I use Rust frameworks to avoid all three!

I can’t see from this article whether “could cost” means there are lawsuits ongoing/pending, or just the author has speculated what the fine could be if there were a lawsuit?

Not sure what you call this kind of cat

Ceiling cat!