In my country, it’s the casinos. They naturally receive cash predominantly, and can easily launder millions. Everything else is small potatoes.

We do what we must
because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead

Yeah, let’s see how well that ping works when they find a deathclaw in one of those trips.

YOU DIED (several minutes ago)

brag about Ubuntu being his favorite Linux distribution we? Like, can you imagine someone saying that in a room of Linux nerds?

H-hey!

I’ve always suspected these are attempts at stock manipulation. Release scary news, make the stock go down, buy, stock rebounds quickly as the scaremongering dissipates, sell.

The most mentally-challenged businessmen love pump and dump (and the reverse in this case) because it doesn’t require any talent whatsoever, just insider trading.

They have a brain as complex as ours, they’re social, and they’re believed to be really smart.

If they’re actually dumb, very dumb, I swear to god I will buy a single non-certified dolphin-free tuna can out of spite.

This is scandalous! We were supposed to get a different kind of fraud!

They even probably worked better than real AI, the shame!

Dude, tell me you haven’t been in a management position without yadda yadda etc.

They’re not genius or more valuable, their workflow is different. In development I could solve the same problem for days, and know the ins and outs of it; as a manager. When I pivoted to management, I understood I have people who know their shit, so I don’t have to worry about the details while I make sure they have everything they need to accomplish our compromises.

I had to learn to let go of the tech work so I could be more effective as a manager. I’d love to talk about Postgres optimization during dinner, but I can’t devote much time to that during the work day. That’s someone else’s job. I’ll just give them the resources.

This. OP is mistaken if he thinks all people had to carefully read all email. We techies love to explain things too much, but executives are administrators, they don’t delve into technical details unless needed.

My technique to get busy executives to answer my emails is being direct and brief.

• Subject: As concise as possible, and then more
• In bold, one thing I need from them. Asking three things is a sure way to end up with two unanswered things.
• Two line breaks
• In bold “Details”, another line break, and a bullet list of any info they might need, but not necessarily read.

That’s it. If they need more, they will ask you. If you need more, send three emails, or make it very clear in the first line that you’re asking three things, and make them a bullet list.

Also, this works surprisingly well with people other than executives.

The base has to be the target species. If, like Jurassic Park, they had an almost complete dire wolf genome, and slightly patched it with grey wolf genome to make it viable, few will argue that it wasn’t a dire wolf, at least predominantly.

TL;DR: Gray wolves and dire wolves are different species that had a common ancestor. These wolves are still gray wolves with 20 or so one-letter edits to their genome to express some dire wolf characteristics.

They’ve not become a different species, they’re still genetically-engineered gray wolves that resemble dire wolves.

Hard non-binary persons, mind you!

And if they wear furry suits it’s because they’re harder! Wait…

Wow. Aren’t we Mexicans inventive?

I’m sorry for the downvotes, what you said is true: pretty much everyone breaks.

Few people have withstood torture and didn’t break. Imagine the most intense pain you’ve suffered, and think if you would endure it for hours and hours. I’m not talking about a stubbed toe or an ingrown nail, I’m talking about REAL PAIN.

Apple has teased with making the iPhone-as-a-service, meaning you lease it instead of owning it. The tariffs might give it the pretext it needed to go ahead with the idea, because the alternative would be sacrificing some of its abundant profit margins.

Yup, PRI started as left, enjoyed seven decades of de facto dictatorship, during which it moved to center-right, then lost two times in a row to PAN, which is right-center. PAN lost to MORENA, in great part because PRI formed an under-the-table alliance with them. MORENA says its left, but in reality it swings all over the place.

Now PRI and PAN have become shells of their former selves, and MORENA had made sure to change the electoral and legal systems so it will be very hard for them to lose. Its founder and former president had long dreamed for a de facto dictatorship return. He’s getting his son ready to take over in the next presidential election.

Mexican (and Latin American) politics are always such a mess: presidents have too much power, and many disregard the law with impunity. I’m sorry to see USA is experiencing the same, Trump should be in jail for encouraging the Capitol riots.

You joke, but Russia is a better replacement for China than Ukraine. The territory is bigger, which means more resources, and instead of giving them aid USA can buy raw material cheap because they need money.

At least that’s the strategy I’d expect from your current administration, since everything is laser-focused on very short term profit.

Reading this list from Mexico: we used to have a disastrous economic crisis every six years, without fail, as the exiting president and their accomplices took everything that wasn’t nailed, and even contracted debt so they could steal even more.

Compared to those awful decades, having no self-inflicted major crisis since 2000 has been sweet. Unfortunately, many of the people who caused those crises are in power right now, covering their backs. It’s a matter of time before the next one.

I guess my point is: people will adapt, because they have to. Many will lose a lot, but somehow will survive. Things have to get much much worse before people can’t take it anymore.

I wish your country reacts faster than mine did, and that it doesn’t fall back again like mine seems to be doing.

Becomes firstborn of the king of England: were you saying, serf?

Appropriating the suffering of depressed or suicidal people is not fashionable these days. Now it’s appropriating the suffering of autistic people what’s in!