They can keep shuffling along, though. If you don’t have to pay for active development of features, maintenance of their existing product lines is relatively cheap.

I was able to handwave it away with the future robot injecting deus ex machina into the wound.

Yeah, but a lot of that comes from the legacy airlines in the US becoming low cost carriers.

I won’t be surprised when it happens to the EU when more flag carriers go bankrupt.

And at least Tommy Cutlets was entertaining in a good way.

The story and ideas were great. I loved the abortion. Michael Fassbender was appropriately creepy.

However, this is the movie where the Prometheus School of Running Away came from.

Guess we got to build that telescope on the far side of the moon, then.

The problem is that they are awful, but consumers are very price sensitive when they buy tickets. You get what you pay for.

It is now. You get what you pay for.

This is why I have a light turn on in my room at min brightness before my alarm goes off.

That’ll be an interesting bankruptcy. It is also surprising that Spirit went bankrupt while RyanAir seems to be doing well.

And such a beautiful bike.

You also get the problem where people will start companies with other employees that are ride or die because they had significant equity in the company. Once you approach anything like Amazon’s size, the potential equity people can get has been severely diminished.

You also have a lot of founders who get to that position are workaholics who love focusing on their building empire. For them, it is hard to imagine how people wouldn’t want to dedicate everything to building an empire like they do.

I have never heard of this happening in the USA. The closest I’ve heard of is some states enforcing grandparents’ rights to visit their grandchildren, but I’ve never heard of any American government entity forcing children to take care of their parents.

Prisons are big business.

Not the USA, but several countries including China make elderly care the legal responsibility of their children.

I’m going to use your car analogy, but tweak it.

People are looking to sell their car and buy a new one. One car acts like their old car; it has automatic transmission and there is a network of mechanics to take the car to in case something breaks.

The other car has a manual transmission. The car requires regular maintenance to do done by the owner like weekly tuning of the timing belt. There aren’t mechanics, but car clubs where people will give you advice on how to fix your car.

If you look at how RSS fell from use, there were two major issues. On the user side, users had to go out to find content as there wasn’t an inherent way to search for content within the system. On the creator side, creators had to deal with advertising themselves to users and they had to handle the monetization by themselves.

Social media created the algorithm to find content and developed some revenue sharing with creators.

If federated media takes off, it will probably look like Threads or Truth Social, where control of a front end monetizes development of the platform.

There would be no merit at all.

I’m sure Zelenskyy would be more than happy to host NATO troops in Ukraine; it is a decision of NATO nations to not deploy to Ukraine.

If NATO troops were not invited, that would likely trigger a wider war. It would also mean that the Ukrainian government becomes a NATO problem; NATO isn’t as interested in nation building since Afghanistan.

Yes. Democrats voted for Obama in 2008 and he presented himself as more progressive than Hilary.