This cartoon just happened to appear right next to this article in my feed. Couldn’t be more relevant.

Mt Rushmore is absolutely ridiculous. Americans can use the phrase “cult of personality” to refer to other countries after they’ve chiseled off those ugly mugs and returned Six Grandfathers to something resembling its natural state.

Sonnenfeld hailed the decision by UnitedHealth’s board to bring back Hemsley, who led the company to success between 2006 and 2017.

“He does know where the bodies are buried, and he’s the perfect guy to go to,” he said.

That’s an…interesting…way to describe this guy’s aptitude to run the company infamous for denying healthcare.

Israel emerged as the country with the worst global reputation

Also unsurprising and well deserved.

The article mentions Mozilla removing the extension for “supporting hate” which really makes me want to download a different browser, but apparently it is back now - I just installed for Firefox on Android.

Edit: although installed, it doesn’t seem to be working…will have to figure this out later.

In 2040, pursuing post-secondary education (PSE) is no longer considered a reliable path to social mobility.

In 2040, owning a home is not a realistic goal for many.

This sounds more like 2025 to me…

Exactly!

As a weird little way of coping with how dumb it is, I will always insist that it does have something to do with shipping, like as in transportation of goods, when it comes up IRL.

So if you’re shipping two characters, you’ll need a box big enough to contain them both, and you’ll need a destination to ship them to. It’s silly but it’s more entertaining than despair.

This showed up in my feed right below “Kim Jong-un attends opening of 10,000 new apartments in Hwasong district”. I was just looking at it thinking “we could really use 10,000 new apartments in Toronto.”

The irony is just so stark. North Korea is supposed to be the scariest place on earth, but it’s right here at home that we have “housing so unaffordable you can just die instead.”

He sure does take it to the extreme though…

That same year, she said she was forced to reschedule Zuckerberg’s address at the UN to a later time slot because, according to Wynn-Williams, “the United Nations isn’t important enough for Mark to do an event before noon.”

But beyond that, I suppose it goes against the mythology of billionaires being “hard working”, which is obviously silly, but there are people who still believe that nonsense, and might be shocked.

Planned obsolescence, I would say, is a form of shittyness, especially when it seems they’ve invented a fun new way to wreck the ozone layer while they’re at it.

So, another one of the muskrat’s projects turns out to be surprisingly shitty?

Funny how hard it is to do a “victims of communism” monument without honoring nazis.

I would love to visit Chongqing some day, it’s like science fiction but real.

And the following sentence:

Before the January 29 collision, the last major fatal airplane accident involving a US carrier was in 2009,

So yeah, January 29th. The rest were February. Of course one single incident in January, and several more in February, isn’t going to have a huge impact on the number of incidents in January. February is what we should be talking about.

I have to assume that the actual message being obfuscated here is “please keep buying plane tickets, you still probably won’t die and even if you do it’s just really important for our up-going line.”

Oh duh I can’t read. It says “larger”, not “largest”.

This is very impressive, but surely there must be a country somewhere who’s largest trading partner is someone else, besides the US or China?

The first two are just perfect cookies, there’s no such thing as too much butter, or too much sugar.

I would like to promote violence against this particular reddit mod.

Slightly tangential, but this reminds me that some cars track “sexual activity” somehow.

Mozilla did a study and found everything they looked at to be terrible: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

They actually did give Tesla the worst score, but there was some strong competition.

From Mozilla’s report:

One other red flag we wanted to note in Tesla’s privacy policy (and this is something we see in too many privacy policies, to be fair). When it comes to sharing your personal information, they say they can share it with law enforcement or the government in fairly broad ways. They say, “We may also use and disclose information about you if we believe in good faith that that the law requires it for purposes of security, fulfilling our legal obligations (such subpoenas or court orders), law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate. We may also share information about you, where there are legal grounds to do so, if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our Terms of Use or protect our operations or customers. This could include providing information to public or governmental authorities.” The way that statement is worded, we are concerned the Tesla could voluntarily disclose your personal information with law enforcement or governments, which is something we don’t like to see.

Concern confirmed!