Pivot seems inadequate as a term here. You could pivot from making shoes to work gloves.

But from shoes to AI infrastructure? That’s more “my company failed, and using the same name and corporate structure is a way to save money on my unrelated business idea”.

Sometimes I think that if there was an anti-Christ, they wouldn’t be aware that they were the anti-Christ. If that’s the case, JD Vance would be the perfect candidate.

I hesitate to add this about such a cute post, but honey bees are native to Africa and Eurasia

If you aren’t Canadian, I think you have our mindset down perfectly lol

One challenge is that the lifestyle that people have come to expect is only affordable by outsourcing production to other countries for slave labour prices.

People want 7 pairs of running shoes, to own every kitchen and garage gadget possible, and to buy little items as pick-me-ups every few weeks. There would be an outcry at children picking our food for 3 cents a day or indentured servants making our clothes if it were visible, but these services are shipped far enough away that most people can just smile and enjoy their new $30 shoes without seeing the abuse. And if you tell them about it, they say they are poor too, which is the equivalent of covering your ears and screaming “la la la la la” to avoid processing it.

Same here! I don’t like the idea of my money funding their abhorrent administration

But then he might chip his manicure

Disclaimer: not American. Many of my mom’s cousins are Maple MAGA or international MAGA (why they want America to be great again at the expense of their own nations, I will never understand). A few who seem to be good people are offended (the ones who actually go to church, volunteer, try to understand the message, etc).

But sadly, the bulk seem to find this an overstep yet would still never vote for a more Liberal candidate. In Canada they are offended that Carney “let his daughter become trans”….which is such a peculiar argument given that his kid is an adult and can make their own choices. So although they are not American voters, and rather international citizens who just like to shoot themselves in the foot, it appears the anti-Christ is preferable to LGBTQ

Sounds like your kid might like The Boxcar Children series

It’s not for me…I’d faster do it with melted butter and toast if I were going to. But then again, I eat hot pepper soaked pineapple rings, so maybe I don’t deserve to judge anyone…

I’m not sure if I’d call them a monopoly, but they are a multibillion dollar company directly in competition with Proctor & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Clorox, etc

None — it’s a Kimberly-Clark distribution warehouse. Their products include Kleenex, Cottonelle, Scott, Kotex, and Huggies

I’m going to guess it relates to their neighbour trying to get the mayor and 911 to evict them from their legally owned home…

I had a Dutch roommate once who routinely ate sprinkles on toast for breakfast — she called it traditional.

Half my family is from the Caribbean and I’ll admit we eat some odd things (all manner of salted fruit for example), but I have a hard time computing sprinkle toast as a complete meal

You haven’t met my aunts then… “💐🌺Good ☀️morning☀️ sweetie!🌸When are you coming to ✈️visit 🚙next?? 🎈🎉🪩”

I incorrectly used hyphens in place of em dashes before learning to distinguish them properly. I very much resent that this AI slop world makes the general public assume that em dashes mean bot- generated text these days. I just want to abruptly change thoughts in the middle of my writing!

99% Invisible did a recent episode of their podcast defending the em dash. They discuss the fact that it is too reductive to assume that any text containing em dashes is AI-generated, given that bots have been trained on text from the em dash’s heyday.

I look forward to the day we can use them again without having to defend our humanity.

GoFundMe will leave it up because they will make about $30,000 off of the $750,000 donated. Business is going to business.

What is the title and what is the city claiming it is?

Well exactly, unless we are going back to colonizing other countries, the world is out of room.