Absolutely! I was just saying that faking the mistress would suggest that Pai saw Enron getting in trouble and mounted a scandal just to cash out before the crash.

By all accounts that I've seen, the guy was a certified sleazebag so if he wanted an excuse to get a divorce, he didn't even need to fake anything.

Found him: Lou Pai. He had an affair with a stripper and I don't think he was totally faking it because she got pregnant (or maybe he was really committed to the bit). But yes, he was very high up the corporate ladder and the timing of it was highly suspect.

Huang's wang burst the AI bubble

I can's see the appeal for me but I think I can understand where Apple is coming from, at least in theory. More AI in phones means an excuse to sell you more powerful phones.

Unless you are very into having the latest piece of tech or your old phone dies, I haven't seen much that a new phone can do and my 4 years old one can't, so many people (including me) are sticking with their old phones for longer. AI seems like it has the potential to put something new on those marketing assets. Granted, it worked like shit with AI laptops/Copilot PCs but Apple has a knack for turning others' failures into long lines of people fighting to give them their money so we'll see...

one day, millions of years from now some of their bodies might turn into oil

I was not disagreeing with you, I was just trying to be funny and summarize "ok"

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I think it might be true. Not in the sense that agents are so clever that they are hacking into online banking websites but in the sense that some people are so dumb they:

1. willingly give agents credentials to access their bank accounts ("it's going to help me budget/figure out if I'm being overcharged by Netflix" or whatever else the AI-hype convinced them it's a good idea to let an agent do for you)
2. or let agents run with full access to everything on their machines, including their "my_banking_codes.txt" file with their unencrypted passwords and the email/messaging apps where they receive the 2FA message to confirm their access

No worries, Muse will read it for them and inform them if it's important! As soon as it finishes cleaning up their PC from all these work files

I'm not saying Capitalism=good and I'm even open to accept Communism as the ethically superior alternative. It's just that, while I see Communism as a good balance to unchecked neoliberalism in a democracy, when either side completely takes over, countries seem to drift toward two opposite (but also so similar) types of dictatorship.

I do see how "pure free market" is becoming a threat, as you write, and I would like to see a bit more socialism added to the democratic mix again.

The thing is: has Communism ever produced a good example in any country or historical period? Most religions are also based on some very good principles, but I can't think of a country where a theocracy produced a good place for people to live. So, I don't know.... there might be a fundamental disconnect between how good the principles are and how badly they adapt to human nature? Not a critique, please believe me. I really want to be educated on this.

I am sorry, you are correct. Trying to swallow a cactus does not in fact cure smoking-induced throat cancer. I messed up. I should not treat the US Department of Health as a reputable source of medical advice. Do you want me to research uses of Ivermectin to treat throat bleeding?