Therefore, chicken and beef is vegetables.

Checkmate, vegans!

Pennywise, you say?

Oh, but you can bet your bottom dollar there are still something like 20:1 ratio of dark-market bets synthetic collateral against these shares further underpinning valuations.

Legitimately fear that this will make the ‘08 meltdown look quaint in comparison, as the fiscal stress will not be limited to shares but impact loads of financial instruments (home and car loans, retirement accounts etc.).

What’s on second.

But who’s on first?

Yes, but they are a minority - and they alone cannot prop up the franchise if the rest boycott Disney/ABC.

ETA: you don’t need 100% to boycott in order for a campaign to be successful - there just needs to be enough to sufficiently hurt their bottom line.

For those that can’t quit the content cold turkey, there are other avenues of consuming that don’t benefit Disney… 🏴‍☠️

100% agree; the whole Touch Screen Everything UI like those found in Teslas are the absolute worst.

Having to take your eyes off the road to do literally anything to do with the climate system should be made illegal. Bring back tactile switches, FFS!

Those will die off soon enough, through forced obsolescence and an inability to compete with ad-subsidised junk that spies on you.

“Look at me, Morty burp I’m Clickle Rick!”

Riskiest click of my career!

Australia is, for some reason…

From my experience, a whole lot.

Think about how hard it is to join a new company and learn to maintain their codebase - at least in that situation you are likely going to have someone more familiar with it walk you through it.

Now understand that no such resource exists for vibe code - you’re on your own from the get go.

Quite the opposite; these are probably the most savvy opportunists making themselves available for headhunting by clueless recruiters chasing The Next Big Thing.

They will end up getting phat contract offers to tidy up the poorly implemented AI-generated code put in by some C-suite desk jockey after they fired their engine engineering team.

I thought they’d absolutely love objects without flared bases - keeps them employed, and entertained!

Edited to add: sorry, backbone was probably the wrong term to use.

The actual history of Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) is actually needlessly complicated - primarily due to a (somewhat) successful sabotage attempt by our Conservative government in the early 2010s.

But basically, every single new home is built with Fiber to the Home, and every single metropolitan and suburban home either has Fiber to the Home (or Premises), or at the very least Fiber to the Curb through a remediation process to replace the Conservative-implemented Fiber to the Node boondoggle.

We also have a number of neighbourhoods stuck with HFC (again due to Conservstice sabotage) which while still delivering 100+ Mbit connections - are a bit of a technical dead end and will need to be remediated at some point in the future.

Basically, nbnCo serves as a national broadband wholesaler providing high speed connectivity (100, 250, 500, Gigabit) to something like >95% of the population.

The most remote communities are also serviced either through a fixed wireless option or satellite.

Basically though, unlike the US we don’t have a significant number of people still on dial-up and haven’t had so for a very long time.

It’s not so much about being built on a grid, but rather being built with a particularly high population density in mind - and further supported by a robust public transit network.

Chicken and egg situation, Americans drive because that’s how their cities and suburbs are laid out (excluding NYC, for the most part).

They don’t rely on alternatives because they are slow, inconvenient or non-existent; alternatives can’t be built up as the costs can’t be justified based on existing patronage levels.

Except that US ISPs have already been provided upwards of $80b to roll out a fiber optic backbone for rural connections, and have instead largely pocketed the funds and sat on their hands.

It has largely fallen to smaller communities to incorporate their own local ISPs and manage their own roll-outs, as such projects aren’t viewed as worthwhile for private companies.

Honestly, if Australia could roll out a national fiber backbone (almost a decade ago!) across the same approximate landmass as the contiguous 48 states at less than 10% of the overall population; there is no valid reason that the wealthiest nation to have ever existed can’t also do so.

Even if a Federal program (not under this administration, obviously) was to just run fibre parallel to the existing interstate highways, and leave the last (20) miles to local utilities - it would be cheaper, faster and more reliable than LEO - and without all the additional negatives that come with that!

The US is very much on the decline, and thanks to the poorly thought out One Child policy- China has also likely past it’s apex. But like the US, it too can cause a lot of damage during its downfall.

India, thanks to burgeoning population and rapid industrialisation is probably the most notable nation currently ‘on the rise’.