It’s pretty easy to not get caught surveiling customers.

All you have to do is… Not surveil customers.

That there’s a question over who owns the things you bought is already beyond dystopian nightmare.

If you think THAT’S stupid, wait until you see what they start THIS one over.

That’s the right answer, kid.

Only Scout believed in himself.

QUE?!?!?

When I found out what it meant when other countries have sovereign wealth funds…

I have no idea how most people in America keep convincing themselves they’ve somehow got a good deal.

Yeah… I also saw Man in the High Castle.

Sad accuracy noises

Right back to the store then.

Fuck around and get a charge back.

My apologies.

Deregulation happened completely randomly in a vacuum like a decaying lump of a radioactive element with no cause.

In all seriousness though… yes, ALL changes happen in a sea of social, economic, and political factors, but someone pulls the trigger, and it’s fair to point at the gunman.

Because consumer protection and regulation seems to have stopped being a real thing after Reagan. Since then everything good has been legacy agencies patching at the edges where they had authority (all gone now thanks to the Supreme Court - see Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo).

Buckle up. It’s only going to get worse.

(This is extra ironic because buckling up is only even a thing because of consumer protections. So I guess get ready to be thrown through a windshield.)

Not if you do it on a data center construction site, make it look like a homicide, and stop the construction until the investigation completes.

Instead of buying and selling futures you have to get into the pasts market.

Sorry, they’ve already got a GOAT.

Also, if you break ground on your factory today with infinite resources, it’ll only take 5 years for you to get a product out the door that’s nearly as good as what the big guys put out 5 years ago.

How hard can it be? It’s only the most complicated tech humans can build with one of the most sensitive supply chains, while the machines to build them are also skyrocketing in price while all the venture capital is being flushed down the toilet.

Sure, it’s all stupid, but I DO want to see him pick a fight with Trump again so he can once again back down with his tail between his legs at the braying of a pedophile blob who’s being outnegotiated by a nation a fraction of the size of his own via meme videos.