especially from the West

Apple products about to get even more expensive!

…and make their competitions products more expensive too, i suppose

It’s a win-win really 🫠

Imagine pouring your years and efforts into making this company the giant it became, and this is how they repay you. I have to imagine it’s gonna be hard to find a new job at the same pay level etc, considering everyone is currently making big cuts to their workforce 🫠

“After careful consideration of Oracle’s current business needs, we have made the decision to eliminate your role as part of a broader organizational change,” copies of layoff notification email viewed by Business Insider stated. “As a result, today is your last working day.”

Oh, and one last thing:

Oracle declined to comment.

It takes a good guy with a metal-bristle grill brush to stop a bad guy with a metal-bristle grill brush 🥂

Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged “a few errors” in the case and pledged changes in their operations but stopped short of issuing a direct apology.

Surprise!!!

Isn’t that what happens to anything commercially successful now?

This is exactly my mindset these days. I never managed to get ahead, hell i barely ever managed to catch up. I’ve been paranoid in the past about my inability to put aside any savings, but now i don’t even think it matters. In the end, the healthcare industry will ultimately take all of my money–there’s no way i can afford treatment for even minor problems, much less the big stuff that lies in wait for us when we get older. So why bother trying to create a savings–just to have them take it all away? So i can squeak a couple more years of life, penniless after having battled cancer? Fuck that.

Terrorism? Poor maintenance? You never know when you’re pumping oil! 🤠

While the rest of the country is rapidly crumbling, at least we know some gigantic Corp is doing everything they can to hasten our demise for their profit

These are the types of technological advancements we get from the richest man in the world. Plus he’s so rich that no matter what happens here, it will not affect him in the least. This would sink just about anyone else, if not land them in prison if there was any justice left in this world (lol at that idea)

Damn, they slashed a trillion out of healthcare programs. Think about how shit our healthcare system was before that 🫠

“they’re the same picture”

Take a moment to read this article. There’s an account in the 2nd half that was absolutely chilling. Guy was full-on chased for being an observer and narrowly escaped what looked like it could have been a brutal or even fatal encounter after being boxed in by SUVs full of masked agents. I’m not sure what the solution is going to be here

Well i didn’t have “Year of the Linux Laptop” on my 2026 bingo card! That’s awesome!!

Wow, another depraved piece-of-shit billionaire?!! Color me shocked!

After the dickhead denied everything he did:

In January 2023, Black agreed to pay $62.5m to the US Virgin Islands, as to be released from any possible legal claims related to local authorities’ investigation of Epstein’s sex trafficking in the territory.

Well, if that isn’t an admission of guilt, i honestly don’t know what is. Parting a billionaire from even a sliver of their wealth is not something they do without their hand being forced.

Go figure the margins are that thin.

we absolutely shouldn’t buy things through Amazon or any of the other web stores Amazon owns.

I try to use eBay as an alternative, though i find every 3-4 orders i place there, i get one in an Amazon box that by all rights appears to have been shipped by Amazon. I swear people are drop-shipping stuff from Amazon to their eBay buyers.

Oh man, we owe the globe a lot these days 😅

Those fucking things really bother me. If anyone would go around conspicuously recording everyone and everything in front of their face, some people would definitely have a problem with it. Making the camera less conspicuous doesn’t change how people feel about being recorded by randos. It’s not like people can’t find sneaky ways to record their surroundings but to try to make it acceptable or mainstream to do so and to provide the masses with the means is exceptionally shitty

He’s one of the “good billionaires” 🤣