Which country? Consumer fuel prices have been subsidized to artificially suppress them in a number of places, Brazil for example. The profits are still being made but the rise in prices is being shifted onto the public via govt. debt so it gets paid through future taxes instead of showing up immediately at the pump.

Do you consider the cartels to be corporations? They operate like corporations but exist without the sanction of governments.

Mostly no. If you are in a VHCOL area and have a lot of financial obligations, like a large family to support for example, it’s really not that much. Outside those circumstances its enough income to support a middle class lifestyle in any developed country on earth.

ARR is around 30b, valuation is over 800b.

If we could get resources from space without having to extract them on earth that seems inherently better even if the same MBA shitheads are running the space mines. It would make it a lot easier to prohibit harmful resource extraction methods if they can also be economically accomplished without having to destroy irreplaceable ecosystems, for example.

Not so fun fact about Hegseth, he never washes his hands because he thinks it makes you weak. The man walks around with shit covered hands everywhere he goes.

Extremely unprofessional. Acting like an asshole is only appropriate in certain contexts, and a rando calling about open positions is definitely not one of them.

Adults can do what they want, but that sounds like a bad idea and I question the judgment of both parties.

Yep, I grew up being taught Catholics were fake Christians who worship Mary and their saints instead of god, and in so doing are actually worshipping demons because “Satanists” control the Catholic church.

Elon and his brother both used to be very open about working illegally in the US in violation of their visas. There’s also his use of illegal drugs which he has never made a secret of. The evidence is a lot more solid than this bizarre nonsense about Omar.

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 10. It’s easy to install if you ever want to step up from scrubland.

I almost never see any of them between my DNS filtering and ublock.

I tried a few years ago but couldn’t get over the absurd amount of advertising and dumb bullshit so I canceled my subscription. I would love to spend Sunday mornings drinking coffee and reading the paper like an old-timey person but the paper is at least 90% garbage. The 10% that isn’t garbage is poorly edited and often has typos. It felt like I was being insulted every time I opened it up.

Keep right except to pass. The passing lane is for passing.

It amazes me how profoundly stupid these people are. This is almost too dumb to believe. The Strait of Hormuz risk has been talked about for decades, no one at the Pentagon or NSC should be surprised right now.

It is kind of funny that Iran already replaced Khomeini with another Khomeini. Except this one is extra shitty, and now also extra pissed off too.

It gives you more control over when and what Google can do on the device. If you run Google software with network access you have to assume they can track you, but having it sandboxed minimizes what it can do while running and gives you more control over what it does (e.g. you can deny it network access entirely whenever you want).

The supply chain risk designation and threats of imprisonment are completely insane. It’s effectively the corporate death penalty for Anthropic. I expect the stock market would be crashing right now if it were open.

Definitely suspicious behavior. It’s plausible she didn’t notice them, or that she noticed them but had some other intent besides theft. I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions without further evidence.