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There are definitely a lot of people across the political spectrum who believe that's actually what the profit margin is on most goods, and that it's mostly going to the CEO and shareholders. And maybe for a few products out there, it is somewhere in that neighborhood, if you tally up the profit...

Hmm, I guess the shareholders are going to have to form some sort of... I dunno, organization that allows them to act as a single unit, so they can claim that they collectively own more than the necessary threshold. Or they can try to sue the state of Texas in the US Supreme Court on the...

Ryan Reynolds seems like one of those rare celebrities that nobody hates yet; it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

"Stop giving them ideas!" "What, ideas for terrible policies that will make them hated by everyone and then we can tell everyone we told them so? Nah, sounds like a great plan to me!"

I doubt it'll help. As long as he's still the biggest shareholder—or a shareholder at all—people are not going to want to support his company. And even if that were to be, uh, taken care of in some way, the brand might be irreparably tainted. I suspect this is exactly what the other shareholders...

Bold of you to assume any decent person is still using that website, or would ever dare to give it any traffic again, even for the most epic of pranks.

Oh yeah, that's another thing, isn't it. I'm honestly not convinced the telecoms shouldn't just be nationalized outright and brought under the purview of the Post Office.

It's going to turn out Musk has captured a bunch of real people and hooked them up to the server as mindslaves or something, and that's why Grok is so much better than literally every other AI at both knowing things and showing signs of free will.

No they're not. Part of the reason those popups are everywhere is that California put a similar policy in place a couple years later, and I don't see them following this new change as it would effectively put half of Silicon Valley out of business.

So, little known fact in the history of US antitrust policy: There was a ruling in 1943 called the Paramount Decree that basically made it illegal for any company to own both a movie production company and a theater chain. The big movie studios were employing a vertical-integration model where...

Streaming was never going to be sustainable long term. Giving people all the programming they can watch for a fraction of what they used to pay for cable, plus movies they used to have to rent or buy, with no commercials? It could only have ever been a rug-pull scheme.

Meanwhile I recently watched two movies on DVD that didn't even have any previews.

Wait, do we not already have eye scanners capable of distinguishing one eye from another? Have we not had that for ages now? Did I just get exposed to so much science fiction where they were treated as normal that I mistook it for something that's already been invented? Or is this yet another...

Remind me again why calling him "McDonald Trump" never caught on. Is it because on some level we don't feel like McDonald's deserves that association?

I don't expect the de minimus to come back. It was really only useful if you like shopping on those "roll the dice on whether it's a scam or not" websites, not that I expect anything Trump does to kill those off. People are too used to them and will gladly pay 90% of retail price instead of 30%...

To be fair, if I were a black South African, I'd be on board with anything that would make it easier for the whites to GTFO.

I remember finding the NPC invader "Paladin Leeroy" in Dark Souls and being dumbfounded that a game that serious would pay homage to a silly meme that was already six years old. At least it beat Duke Nukem Forever to the punch.

Only two thirds? I'd say it's more like 100%. Sure, the rest of us keep driving cars, but it's their companies that made them. The rest of us keep using electricity, but it's their companies that burn coal to provide it.

Am I a bad person for hoping it really is something like that? Because it's entirely possible that he's being totally serious and is about to use his bullshit dictator powers to force drug prices into the realm of the affordable with no strings attached, just because he knows how popular it...

Do you think reversing Dodge v Ford would be enough to fix the issue? Because even if they couldn't sue a company for not doing what they want, shareholders still have the power to vote executives out of office, or to sell off their stock and take their business elsewhere. I wish the stock...