I think there’s a difference between simply not bringing something up because it is irrelevant and actually concealing it, although I think there’s also a difference between concealing something because you don’t want an argument and concealing it because you’re afraid of retaliation.

I think I could be on board with this.

You might want to read more about corporate personhood. It doesn’t mean that the corporation is considered by the law to be a person, or that whoever or whatever performs the duties of the CEO is by definition a person. It means that a corporation, despite not being a person, has certain rights usually associated with people. For example, a person can own property or be sued. A cat cannot own property or be sued. A corporation is like a person rather than a cat in that it can also own property or be sued. There’s debate about exactly which rights should be granted to corporations, but the idea that a corporation has at least some minimal set of rights is centuries old and an essential part of the very definition of what a corporation is.

You’re mixing up corporate personhood and the CEO’s own personhood. He isn’t the corporation. Ultimately, he’s just an employee. There’s no good reason for the board of directors to pay him if a machine can do a better job while costing less. I’m not sure why you might think that wouldn’t happen.

They’re small but they actually have a pretty good reputation.

Do you imagine that the Russian people could possibly change their situation by voting?

The Pope isn’t a good role model if you want to reduce the “continuously wider gap between the income levels of the working class and the money that the wealthiest receive”. I’m not saying he shouldn’t live in splendor - I think that the Catholics get to run their organization however they want. But so do Tesla investors…

It’s not a donation to her personally.

Not really. Everyone understands that “smart” is referring specifically to intellectuals. The idea is that his supporters have what they perceive as straightforward, simple, traditional values which are lost rather than strengthened by exposure to liberal ideas in higher education. Meanwhile so-called smart people treat his supporters with contempt while commanding them to do immoral things for reasons that go against the supporters’ common sense.

So it looks like my policy of “only buy Western Digital” is still the right one. But what’s happening to HGST?

I saw a guy once with no gap between his beard and his chest hair.

How are Seagate drives these days? I stopped buying them about a decade ago after having several fail and looking up statistics that showed they were significantly less reliable than the other brands.

It’s a moral panic, and the funny thing to me is that the resources spent on controlling what dolls people may own could have been spent on actually helping children.

I’m not sure why Chase is getting dragged into this. I haven’t read anything claiming that there were financial crimes going on.

Why would you want to read a comment by someone you’ve blocked, and why would you want to upvote, downvote, or report a comment that you haven’t read?

You get to control your own experience, not their experience.

This was my dream car when I was a little kid because I loved how the doors opened. I even had a toy with openable doors.

Not if they can help it.

I suppose I still want life-extension technology to be developed for the sake of the large number of humans who aren’t Putin or Xi. But for them,

And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay.
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare.
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Hmm, it’s probably several of those things at once. The last time it happened was after I ate a bunch of pancakes for lunch while having a stressful day and not sleeping very well.

Usually I feel a more normal “I’m full but I could eat more because that was tasty.” I have also felt “I haven’t eaten all day but the thought of eating disgusts me,” but that was definitely a side effect of a medication I was taking at the time.