Funny how handset manufacturers keep on designing borderless devices you can’t pick up without interacting with, with unusable and frustrating touch-keyboards, and users of them keep creating cases with grip points, chins, and keyboards.

Almost like the industry isn’t making what people want, and hasn’t in a long time.

This is the fun side of Apple. Since they’re a monoculture, they can’t just blame a partner or vendor like every other tech company. Watching them squirm is delightful. So arrogant and closed-source.

Problem is, they don’t know how to run businesses either.

Muskrat:

• Had daddy’s money to get him going, and was in the US as an illegal immigrant (sure, tries to revisionist history the situation now.)
• Tesla: He came in after it was established, demanded to be revertigo’d to a founder, all cars were iterations on the original design until the CyberCuck.
• SpaceX: Musk founded it, but he didn’t do anything other than bitch at smart people. If you have money to burn and smart people working for you, you’re not innovating, you just have enough spaghetti to throw against the wall until you fix the problems that would have inevitably been solved anyway.
• Boring Company: Just a scam based on something he saw on SeaQuest DSV when he was a kid to stop California from building surface high speed rail, oh, and a stupid blowtorch a child could have made in a garage.
• Starlink, sub of SpaceX: Likewise, spaghetti, and probably some weird fever dream of being a James Bond supervillain.
• A lot of what made Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink possible, was that he circumvented traditional engineering development processes to apply software development processes. (Likely because he had no idea and thinks he’s being “out-of-box” and “cyber”.) This leads to much more danger and waste, as software dev principles are absolute garbage for things that matter. That corner-cutting and money-burning, however, allowed him to develop faster than the traditional companies. Net-sum, maybe it has helped push innovation. However, when a space capsule gets lost in the atmosphere because of a bug in ImageMagick, people will probably rethink that idiocy. (Or all the people that have literally died because of defects in Tesla cars, already. Which is sad and anger-making. Just the fact they turn off auto-drive, including braking, just before a car wreck, to escape liability, is deplorable.)
• Twitter
  • This was him actually being a “business person” in real life, handled like a professional toddler, said things on Twitter that forced his hand in buying it.
  • Then he had to cash out Tesla stock got loans from Larry Ellison from Oracle, a Saudi Prince, the country of Qatar, and banks (Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Japanese banks Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Mizuho, Barclays and the French banks Societe Generale and BNP Paribas.) just to buy Twitter.
  • Then put the big bright X on top of their HQ that he then had to take down because he followed zero building code
  • Laid off employees that knew how the place worked, beta-testing what he is now doing in the Federal government equally ineffectively.
  • Had no concept about how any of their infra worked, went through that bout where 2FA stopped working because he saw a line item expense and not “this breaks the functionality,” destroyed the point of the blue check system, and on and on.
  • And now that place is mostly Russian bots, trolls, and the news people that lurk to see what goes on.
  • Set it up so all the debt accrued in the acquisition falls on Twitter, and not him, so when it inevitably fails, he doesn’t incur any further debt from it.
  • Claimed for it to be a free speech haven, and personally banned people constantly for childish reasons.

Mango Mussolini:

• Had mommy’s money to get him going
• Had 5 successful buildings built, mostly in the 1980s
  • At least three of them had fraudulent financial statements, inflated valuations, and inflated tax losses
• At least four failed building ventures
• Had a failed “university”
• Failed vodka business (how hard is that, right?)
• Failed steak business (LOLWAT)
• Failed airline
• Failed board game
• Failed casinos in Atlantic City
• Failed magazine
• Failed luxury travel organization
• Failed mortgage company
• Failed presidency that took Pres. Biden’s administration most of their entire term to fix. We’re talking documents that are gone, departments that are deleted, abject chaos that had to be rebuilt from scratch in some cases.

Not an exhaustive list. Edit: Added some more exhaustive.

Is Docker caching some file you need instead of the changes applying? Raaaage!

But! My context!!!

Truthfully, it’s amazing how often the next morning, with a fresh brain, it becomes an easy fix.

Many rich people, but we should not confuse wealth with power. Too many do, it’s an easy mistake to make. They’re all just people, assholes for sure, but just the same as anyone else. Not worth any more respect, in fact worth less. Once people see through their illusion they present of having power or strength, people then see them as the worthless pieces of garbage they really are.

A necessary skill for us all to quickly master right now. You see it starting to show in government agencies finally starting to ignore Muskrat, a “civilian advisor” with “no real power” (their words), who’s sending threatening emails to government organizations controlled by congress. They should all just completely ignore him, it’s just another mindless crazy person distraction.

Muskrat isn’t a real government employee, Mango Mussolini even said so. Any of his requests should just be ignored by the management of every government agency that is controlled by Congress.

Reminded me of this doublespeak class warfare article from November: Rich people are dominating holiday travel - Most hotel guests this season will be people making six-figure incomes, analysts say.

Households earning at least six figures a year are expected to make up the largest share of holiday travelers this season — 45%, up from 38% in 2023, according to a recent survey by the consulting firm Deloitte. And they’re on track to make up a majority of paid lodging customers, expanding their ranks as hotel guests from 43% last season to 52% now.

“Travelers are looking to invest in upgrades and experiences that will make the holiday memorable,” said Kate Ferrara, vice chair for U.S. transportation, hospitality and services at Deloitte.

This was an example of pure psychological warfare to get people to spend more money at hotels. “Well, those ‘rich’ $100k earners are upgrading their stay, I will to!”

Corpo “news” is such shit.

Probably the most sobering part. This is exactly what they’re doing, as Muskrat is too dumb to understand how they work (and don’t.) Meanwhile, the 19 year old kids accessing old COBOL systems are trusting hallucinating AIs to access them, but since the kids don’t actually have the knowledge and wisdom of how COBOL works, they’ll blindly trust the hallucinations.

That works fine in nowheresville like the Nevada desert. Unfortunately, the bulk of America east of the continental divide is too populated to legally pull that off in any reasonable amount of time.

Much of the cargo lines through much of the country are pretty flat and straight. Tracks and such would have to be upgraded, but doable.

Bigger problem though is my previous mention. They own the lines, so passenger rail is a second-class citizen.

Amen. It’s necessary.

SGEs are forbidden from this kind of conflict of interest. Wonder how they will spin this.

Not as long as the cargo railroad companies hold all the power. America needs an alternate timeline with no fascism, sane governance, and making all railroads public.

Many of their FWD V6 vehicles had this asinine fate.

I’ve quite literally drank Flint water. Not for a humble brag (far from it) but I really hate that they became some kind of trope. They have needed help for decades and could have recovered faster if America ever cared about people. Good people there. Shitty America management. It’s like they keep them down for the Internet points.

As for municipal water. Stop by Altoona, Iowa sometime and drink their water. It’s just so terrible. Ground water full of stuff they can’t filter at scale. I don’t hate them for it, it’s what they can suck out of the ground, for maybe a few more years before it becomes brine.

It is hard to produce drinking water that is safe, and also tastes good. Is my global point.

Personal filters can improve that. Otherwise, buying water just leads us to a human future that is by far the worst reality we could ever impose upon ourselves.

Edit: TL;DR: bad tasting municipal water isn’t a conspiracy. It’s just the reality you have to work with at the time.

And Al Gore in 2000. 9/11 would have never happened and we’d have flying cars that could go through Stargates.

That’s already existed for years: https://www.eightblack.com/

They run a side-hustle of sometimes on-time airport shuttles (not armed.)

Have drank tap water across the US for decades. Some municipalities are crappier than others, but a fridge filter tank takes care of those places.

Why are people not freaking out?

The 88% that didn’t vote for him are. US Governance is slow to react to anything and has yet to figure out this is a real problem, those that aren’t bought and paid for by Orange Burger Troll.

The US has a lot of contributing factors that make it more difficult for individual citizens to react, so far.

• A lot of people can’t just up and take time off work or they’ll lose their jobs
  • In America, losing your job means losing your health insurance. That means a $15 medication can suddenly be $600
  • Many Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck, or worse, in arrears, and use payday loan companies to pay their bills and buy food
  • Saw some metric a while back that credit card debt and services like Klarna were both on the uptick as people used them… to buy food.
• America is a vast country, 2,800 miles from east to west
  • This makes it hard for the above people to just up and travel to the nation’s capital to protest en masse
  • People have been trying to protest at their local governments in-state, but the media is bought and paid for, so news of these protests is very limited in scope

Among many other reasons.

At least the 22% that voted for Orange Turdius.