Gamers didn’t buy Concord or Marathon but Sony’s still doubling down on their liveservice emphasis. Companies don’t behave rationally. They’re run by personalities and cliques like any other organization.

You don’t even get the plastic anymore.

Companies are perfectly capable of making bonehead moves that lose them money. Sony’s made a few themselves already.

They rose to the top because they were the only country that could still build things after the rest of the world got flattened in World War II. Then the rest of the world rebuilt itself so the only asset the US had left was economic inertia. They then proceeded to spend decades doing everything they could to increase the value of that inertia by using their influence to encourage policies that resulted the rich getting richer.

Does the article explain what the “DoorDash problem” is?

I think it uses nanotechnology to just do it automatically.

You’ll never undo it. America’s pre-Trump position in the world was due to the fact that it was the only major power left standing after World War II. After the rest of the world rebuilt itself America was entrenched enough to maintain its position through inertia. When that inertia’s gone, it won’t come back.

It’s not just Trump. It’s the Tea Party and Bush, too. We’ve spent the last quarter century looking over our shoulder waiting for the next catastrophe that Americans will cause and we’re sick of it.

Other people probably thought that the market would remain irrational for long enough for them to cash out.

Nacho money.

I’m thinking $3.50.

He’s the J. J. Abrams of world leaders.

Compared to Trump he’s a genius, but that’s mostly because Trump could probably be diagnosed with a serious intellectual deficiency if any honest doctor got the chance to examine him.

In terms of real intelligence, Putin’s no mastermind, though. Americas problems can’t be blamed on Russian manipulation, since any manipulation on their part is inept at best. You got yourself into your current mess all by yourselves.

Chris Pratt.

We’re going to have a lot of data centres sitting idle when the AI bubble bursts.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vzm6pvHPSGo

It truly was quixotic.

3.6 Roentgen.

They thought it would be like the World Series.

It’s times like this that I wish I gave a shit about soccer. You can’t boycott something you were never interested in in the first place.