“Free speech absolutist” means “you are required to hear everything I have to say and you can’t criticize me for it.”

People fail to realize that we’re in the mirror universe and the universe Star Trek exists in is the unattainable utopia.

There’s a guy who works as a product owner at my employer. He has a PharmD. He got fed up with the metrics for how many prescriptions he had to fill. Now he does software.

It’s crazy to think that someone has a terminal degree in a really technical field and he nope’d out because of how bad it got.

I think it’s fair to think that they could refocus their efforts on the browser if they didn’t have that large slush fund from Google. I don’t think “hey we don’t take Google money anymore” is going to lead to a lot of new donations, however.

it sounds like no one else does either

Maintaining a browser that doesn’t rely on someone else’s upstream code is quite an ordeal. Of the four main browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox), 3 are built by large for-profit enterprises and the other relies on money from a large for-profit enterprise. Browsers are very complex pieces of technology and can’t be maintained by 3 guys on GitHub in their spare time.

Close. Chromium uses Blink which was originally a fork of WebKit. I have no idea how much they’ve diverged since then.

They could probably raise more if Google went away

I’m interested in how you think Mozilla would raise more than half a billion dollars if they didn’t take any money from Alphabet/Google. Genuinely. In what ways could Mozilla raise money that they’re not doing right now?

I’m shocked he doesn’t have an IRA (unless that doesn’t count). Given his previous jobs, it passes the smell test that he doesn’t have a 401k.

I’m sure his pensions are invested in a wide range of stocks and bonds, but he doesn’t directly hold them.

Live look at @TheFonz.

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Live by the sword, die by the sword.

This. If you’re a meme stock (Tesla), you have to keep it that way or else everyone is losing their shirts.

Let’s be clear. Republican judges.

Microsoft’s most important customers are businesses, who generally don’t deal with this (they have corporate images). Home users also generally don’t deal with this given they buy a computer that has already been configured.

Linux-based systems have always needed to be better because almost no one buys a computer with $DISTRO already installed and configured.

I had forgotten about that and now I am sad that I’ve been reminded.

If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would have traveled back to 1994.

he planned to carry out a mass shooting — a random attack common in the U.S. these days

Well they’re not wrong, but it’s kind of surreal to see it plainly said like that.

Hey, many actual members of the bar have said it is now legal (in that he is immune from prosecution) for Joe Biden to order the military to kill Donald Trump. You’ll forgive me if I trust their analysis over that of oxjox@lemmy.ml.

The President can fire employees that refuse to have sex with him. Firing executive branch employees is well within the President’s power. If they don’t submit to him, he can fire them. Official act.