LOL. The irony of bitching about fixing the “actual” problem, is not lost.

The irony of being a species smart enough to design incredibly useful things that use gold and silver, and yet still be a species dumb enough to nuke it and fail to realize what the hell we’ve done to ourselves that has fuck all to do with money.

Guess that depends on which machine grinds harder.

I hear the sound of QE can cost taxpayers trillions when your Government printing press goes BRRRRR THAT damn hard.

* looks back at the Biden administration *

Fun fact: Being able to say that with a straight face, is a recognized Olympic sport in Ukraine.

And if you still believe the government is here to help, you’re probably rolling joints made out of plastic.

(Might not want to wonder too hard as to how the plastic got there.)

And the Award for Lowest Bar Set Ever goes to..No Shit Studio Productions, Hollywood USA.

madewith the help of AI = as long as the bribe money remains real.

Wow. So Google is actually trying to use the excuse of a weakened National Defense? For the United States?

Sounds like a business suddenly critical enough for the United States Government to take over and run instead of civilians profiting obscenely off it.

Hows that sound, Google?

Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it.

Fortunately other brands don’t have as much corporate overhead to feed. As if Logitech executives are eating Top Ramen for dinner, barely scraping by.

Desperation, can often be smelled a mile away. We’ll see if a 25% increase is supported by the wallets feeding the other 80% of the stock price.

Good luck, Logitech. Plenty of other brands to choose from. I don’t need to pay professional gamer prices to outfit an office worker, fuck you very much.

You can really tell which brands are pressured to “justify” an overinflated stock price. Especially when they know they’re not worth it.

Speaking of public disclosure, this entire topic is rather oddly public.

If I’m the CEO of (very) publicly traded company, why in the hell would I be pleased about a fucking bank publicly speculating about my future plans and investments on my behalf, especially if those speculations could have a negative impact? Wells Fargo “heard over the weekend”? Where? At the local fucking bar? Sounds like the kind of shit TMZ would do.

Perhaps Microsoft should start speculating as to how many branches a publicly traded banking institution is closing down this year based on the number of Office365 license renewals. You know, just for shit-slinging stock-smashing grins.

Oh Thine Hypocrite and Master of All Things Stuck in Ways..might we stop pretending for a moment that the 2025 gas-gurgling models sold the world over don’t all still come with horses marketed under ye olde bonnet.

A century later.

The horse listening to the EV owner STILL bragging about how much “horsepower” is under the hood, is laughing their fucking ass off.

We’ve spent thousands of years carving up a single planet into Yours and Mine. Therefore, every major Government on the planet holds the responsibility of resource management. Part of that responsibility is population control. This occurs no matter how badly a moral populace wants to deny such a responsibility exists.

Some control their populations in more passive ways. Like legalized abortion and for-profit medical care. Other countries are forced to take more drastic measures when necessary. Things like the Great Leap along with Chinas one-child policy are prime examples. And the results were hardly accidental. They were by design.

Massive populations can certainly grow massive issues for any Government. Part of the “Great Leap Forward” was the extermination of tens of millions of citizens.

Size does matter. And not always in a good way. The bigger they are..

China has more honor students than the United States has students in total. And that statistic is at least a decade old.

Yes, massive populations grow their own issues, but they also come with undeniable advantages.