And he didn’t even pay the full amount.

It was a distributed way to fund media instead of banner ads. I think it would have been a tough sell, but imagine if all the 30% stakes that PayPal, Apple, Patreon, take were direct to creators?

This of course would all depend on a reliable search engine that could actually find things worth supporting.

Instead we had Geocities and Live Journal jamming ads all over to make it a “free” service, until it wasn’t. Now we have Google, TikTok and Facebook to replace them but that could turn it all off whenever they want.

So, yes you can get to the top of image searches that way, but you also have to add google ads to your page so that google can get a second hit of revenue it drives users to your page, serves the ad, and changes the advertiser.

I don’t know if he’s had any good ideas, but he was an effective hype man before going off the deep end around 2019.

He also was willing to bet on some things at thought were hard to do (start a new car company, start a new aerospace company that focused on rocket science).

But yeah, his main deal is being both into wealth he could use with very little discrimination. (That irony is not lost on me, I mean he could bet and lose plenty and still be a racist tycoon).

Is that dog meat or couch defiling related?

Depends on how cheap the drywall is.

You may avoid brain damage, but your get cancer form the dust on the way through.

They switched back to the much more durable MagSafe (3?) connector. I have 3 MagSafe MacBooks and one usc-c model. The only one I have issues not charging is the USB-C one, and it’s the newest by 2 years.

It’s actually a really impressive bit of engineering and craft. Making the doors work around the back wheel wells because of the extreme chassis shortening is difficult work.

Also the fuel tank, drive shaft, exhaust, brake lines, and wiring all had to be modified to work too. Even the parking brake would have had to be changed to keep working.

The work/life culture was better than my preceding professional jobs, but the middle management was terrible, with 3 coming and going in 2 years.

I became a consultant for one more year, and liked that more, but they ultimately got out of that business (Shopify and squarespace ultimately took that market around the same time).

I was working in web development and marketing back then, while you’re kinda right, and there were always “fires” (which were bullshit, because we mostly did clothing brand websites and tv show ads, not really important in the bigger scheme).

We did manage to keep them from launching sites or features on Fridays. So we had chances to take them more (but still not enough).

Does the local songbird population count?

Yeah we called them personal days, s as long as nothing was due that day it was ok to use them for any reason.

It’s also why he wasn’t allowed around the family pets as a kid.

Unless it’s tin whiskers from the early lead free solder…

I fear that shit way more than I was ever worried about y2k bugs.

Non profit, non vertically integrated healthcare. Letting the insurance companies “partner” with the pharmacies and hospitals is monopolistic or at best duopolistic in some markets. And it lets them charge whatever or threaten to leave a community. Which has happened repeatedly in my area. Then the biggest hospital in the area buys up another small one and the costs go up again.

I’ve always done this then, use the leftover flavor pack (salt) for seasoning a more homemade meal.

Could be, one of the guys at the mountain was a kiwi. Maybe it was Australian related.

We see this a lot with skiing. I grew up working at mountains to afford it and my equipment is decent.

Then Joey (not sure where the name originated) will bomb past you on $5000 worth of equipment and end up in traction after wiping out on the first icy patch they see.

So the word we use is a Joey.

No, a Chinese Y-9 intelligence-gathering aircraft.

It was only there for 2 minutes, that’s long enough for Japan to scramble jets to respond.

Our school won’t let us send reusable glass containers excuse of fear of breakage.

I kinda understand, but our first grader has been using them for snacks at home for 5 years and never broken one.