Sometimes I feel we should be writing these numbers out fully. That’s something worth $4,000,000,000,000 that’s not paying anything substantial to improve your life. If they paid $400M in taxes they’d still be worth about $4T.

And then I wonder how frequently humans misinterpret the mistranslated news.

John Oliver did a good bit on this with Edward Snowden. He advocated that the messaging should be “do you want the government to have access to your dick pics.” Surveyed people on the street that didn’t seem to care less about privacy but as soon as they started thinking about their dick pics being available to the government… the tone changed.

Thank you for your service and for saving me from continuing on down the thread.

Losing empathy is not normal and is a symptom of burn out. I hope you find the support it sounds like you might need to heal from whatever you have going on irl.

Also, eloping?

Jesus

Since the beginning of February, at least 61 Afghans, including nine women, have been flogged in sports stadiums packed with ordinary citizens and Taliban officials from the judiciary and administration, according to data from the top court. The individuals were accused of adultery, eloping, sodomy and robbery, with many of them also receiving prison sentences ranging from several months to six years.

Y’all have to understand how crazy these headlines look to us non-Linux folks. I always get excited when I see something reference wine, then it’s Linux. Then got me extra excited here while I tried to figure out what the tie is between wine and Vulcan’s, and wine and vulcans and performance, and what a penalty might be.

I had a solid 3 seconds of internal absolute wonderful thought chaos as I read this headline and pondered the possibilities.