Shrinking their market share is a much bigger middle finger. If you use their product and shut off a bunch of features, you’re still using the rest of their product and its other features.

Without due process, we will never know. But I’d say we have to presume their innocence, since their guilt was never proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

Might never see courage from Congress, but you might see some van Spronsen/Mangioni(allegedly)-esque recklessness from certain corners of the population.

Those tracks up ahead in the distance look pretty muddy. They might not be running into any military resistance, but they are already facing off against an enemy that will soften them up for General Winter and Marshall Zukhov to break them: Rasputitsa.

Dog whistle? Or fog horn?

Look, with the tariffs going up but insufficient infrastructure to replace the imported goods, it’s only a matter of time before we have backyard steel mills. And with the spread of bird flu, you know they’re going to control it via ‘kill all the birds’.

For as much as they claim to hate Communist China, they’ll be doing Mao’s greatest hits in no time.

Two States Declared Themselves Bird-Flu Free. But What Does That Really Mean?

It means the Smash the Sparrows campaign was a huge success that will have no possible unintended consequences.

…those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

No, this was just the second-most prescient Onion headline from the first W Bush Term (edged out by this one)

She first got elected in 2018. How many senators got there within three election cycles of their first office? Just because Obama went from Illinois State Senate to US Senate to President in a four year span doesn’t make such a climb normal.

When a group of his AI company’s investors sue to block the AI company’s purchase of Twitter (because in what world did they agree to that?), the Saudi solution goes back on the table.

They’re larping James Bond/Jason Bourne/Jack Ryan, they are the government, and they’re coming across as more Other Barry/Len Trexler (post Ludovico technique)/Nikolai Jakov.

Because the world wants to know how hard Polievre fucked himself by hitching his wagon to the trump train.

Also, with an election called in Canada, it probably doesn’t cost much to tack a question about current events onto a poll you were already going to conduct.

‘After [current guy], our turn’, while a nice sentiment to avoid giving up entirely, does not have enough historical evidence to support it as a strategy.

If you’re planing to ‘invest’ your lunch money and get returns big enough to pay for the lunch too, you don’t have a plan, you have a gambling addiction.

Then, to borrow a phrase popularized by one of the names they’re probably highlighting with a Sharpie, lock them up.

If missing $400 million would have them shut down, what’s that $14 billion endowment for? Show? It accrued 11.5% last year. That’s three times what Trump was threatening to not give them

I’m pretty sure everybody on these websites knows they’re more similar to enlisted soldiers than to Vladimir Putin.

The optics the recently indicted (and later hastily pardoned) mayor being one of the guys perp walking the sympathetic suspect probably didn’t help them either.

You want to know why there are Germans? Seems like we should be asking you that question, Quintili Vare.