To me, all this stonks nonsense is just investors with a new scam trying to supplant the investors running the old scam.

Anyway it's a good thing in that it exposes the grade-school explanation that the "stock market is a meritocracy where the best businesses/ products rise to the top" as total bullshit.

An alien looking at the stock market would assume that Tesla makes the best cars; MacDonald's the best food; and Microsoft the best software.

A better question is can a dating app be good?

Around 2010, every tech bro that's creaming shorts over AI today was trying to figure out how to make money behind the fact that everyone had smartphones. But it turned out, that smartphones can't solve every problem.

Dating I would argue, is just one of those things tech made worse. Never mind how often the damn thing fails, think about the conditions where it would function well. A dystopian world where everything is shallow and operating on incel-math.

And how could it be otherwise? Dating apps are just math people trying to solve for love. This is the plot to a comedy movie, not a business plan.

These lawmakers just want to use government force to keep everyone woke.

Do people still pirate Windows? You can download the iso directly from Microsoft's website and you don't need a registration key anymore.

If you want to save a *.webp file, just change the extension to *.png. There is no need for a converter.

Are you going to have to deal with a full-screen ad when you’re trying to open File Explorer eventually?

I was literally reading this sentence when the whole page grayed out and a window asking me to subscribe popped up.

For years people have made fun of esports, but not they'll have to admit that gamers behave no different than other professional athletes.

Notice the event is named "Black Americans for Trump" and not "Blacks for Trump". That's awfully woke of them don't you think?

What if the great filter is just when civilizations learn to live sustainably at home? Perhaps the assumption of infinite population growth, resource consumption, and expansion is flawed.

That's my optimistic thought for the day.

Is there any evidence of American rat-fuckery in the Bolivian coup attempt?

Ronnie Chang (Daily Show) on Deep Dish pizza.

There is a concept in post-modern philosophy called "hauntology". This theory posits that late-capitalist societies loose their ability to imagine different social orders; and cannot imagine the future except as high-tech versions of the current social order. To fill the void of novelty, the culture industry must constantly recycle and repackage old culture.

Anyway, this isn't a new phenomena, just a technology enabling us to resurrect live people instead of just fictional characters.