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  • The thread for My Deer Friend Nokotan was not created. Its start date on Anilist was July 3rd, which is almost over.

    I have manually requested the thread from @[email protected]

    edit: Got an error message from rikka in reply to my episode request:

    There was a problem with the request. The following message was generated from your request. If this message is unhelpful and you need additional help, please see my profile page for the contact information of my maintainer.

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  • Could be one of those C-suite power plays:

    Texeira is managing their one profitable product profitably and looks destined to be CEO.

    The old CEO Baker suddenly resigns, and appoints Chambers as (permanent) successor CEO.

    Chambers and/or Baker is in tight with the head of HR Chehak, and gets her to declare that Texeira is physically unfit for his job as Chief Product Officer or any other job at Mozilla.

    Chambers and/or Baker get their wish for Chambers to become CEO;

    Demonstrably competent exec Texeira is essentially out of a job;

    Great success!



  • Waitaminit…

    If a bank sells a mortgage, there obviously has to be a buyer.

    Any buyer who does their due diligence is going to see a mortgage on a commercial office property, and weigh the risks of the borrower defaulting on their mortgage, or the borrower not being able to refinance when the mortgage is due.

    So given the current environment for commercial offices, any reasonable buyer is going to offer to buy commercial office mortgages at a discount, maybe even at a significant discount, which likely means a financial loss for the bank anyway.

    So what’s the difference if the bank holds on to the mortgage, and if the borrower defaults, then seizing the building, i.e. the real asset, and auctioning it off for whatever it can get?

    Wouldn’t the loss on a mortgage default and asset seizure, likely the be about same as the loss as selling to a prospective buyer for the mortgage, a buyer who had properly calculated a discount for the risk into their purchase price?







  • zabadoh@ani.socialtoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works24 June 2024
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    This is one of my favorite strips!

    But thinking about it, how much of his head is flesh?

    His face isn’t much bigger than normal.

    Unless his jawbone has a 1.5 foot chin, most of the head under his mouth is going to be skin and fat.

    And if his skull is normal sized, his neck bones must be extremely distended, and his neck muscles must be extremely strong to support the weight of the entire head.

    The strip is just better to contemplate as a fanciful idea and move on.

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  • I’ve been saying this for years: The US economy is not “growing” not because we’re making more and better products, but because we’re commercializing social support systems that we used to get at low cost, or for free, from our families, relatives and neighbors: Health care, child care elder care, live-at-home spouses and homemakers, even talking with your neighbors and friends has been replaced with social media.

    The cost of birthing and raising a child is even commodified in the health care system.

    Is it any wonder why wealthy countries’ birthrates are falling? Asides from environmental factors, like microplastics and climate change.

    The reasons why the US population is growing are related to immigration: Both directly counting immigrants, and those who still retain enough social capital in their communities to have families.

    The so called post-capitalism economy is not productivity growth and making lives better for everyone.

    It’s making the production of wealth increasingly meaningless for the average person.

    It’s mining social and middle class wealth into the pockets of the wealthy elite and non-human corporations.

    But what happens when the wealth in the mines is all gone?


  • That’s got all kinds of disturbing implications.

    Clearly the toe went to market of its own free will, and left a note behind as a courtesy

    1. Selling something that has free will is slavery
    2. What are the legal implications of owning somebody else’s digits?
    3. Toes are courteous and have free will?