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It seems that Paradigm has been rethinking some things; https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737950/vc-hypebeast-ale...

Disney's a big corporation but they don't have the power of eminent domain. If (if!) they ever attempt to grow the Anaheim property beyond their current holdings they will pay an absolute king's ransom for each and every square foot.

Besides, reading the actual plans it's pretty clear that Disneyland Forward is more about repurposing and optimizing their current space rather than a "massive expansion" as you call it. Really feels like you're just making up a situation in order to "both sides" the issue.

If you're really so worried about teachers preying on your kids (ah, the latest conservative boogeyman rears its head!) sending them to a religious school is statistically speaking the last thing you should do.

Both a sensible business move and the right thing to do. If they could magically roll up the entirety of WDW and relocate it elsewhere I suspect they would.

lol, there are dormant accounts on Twitter going back at least a decade. NPR doesn't tweet for two weeks and now it's "no special treatment?" What a clown.

I hope NPR does start tweeting again. One tweet a week, solely containing links to other sites where you can find their content. Make Elon do even more tortured public gymnastics to come up with an excuse to punish them.

> Do rich men also historically get similar treatment? Or is gender also playing a role?

I'm sorry, but is this a serious question? Yes, of course rich men get similar treatment. Elizabeth is not being treated with kid gloves because she's a woman, it's because she's an upper-class white-collar criminal who (at least at one point in time) had connections. This is the definition of privilege.

To offer a case in point: Andy Fastow, one of the principal architects of the Enron fraud, who wiped out the retirement savings of tens of thousands of Enron employees and did only 5 years in a minimum-security prison camp as a result.

Overlooked? It's the foundation of the modern tech industry. :) Hell, we've all been brainwashed to the point where OSS maintainers having the audacity to ask for a modicum of support for their efforts is met with scorn and ridicule.

Since these people have presumably not subscribed to Twitter Blue, nor actually verified their phone number, is there a case to be made that this constitutes false endorsement?

Lords and peasants, baby.

Is anyone else old enough to remember when he promised to put future policy changes to a vote?

This is not an improvement. It was valuable to distinguish between media outlets which are direct mouthpieces of the state and those which are not. But as sharemywin observes, this was probably the intended outcome.

Because if companies that behaved badly were actually held accountable our economic system would collapse, and the people in power who benefit from it won't allow that to happen.

> In an email exchange with an NPR reporter on Wednesday, Musk appeared to be unaware of how much NPR receives in federal support. After being told support amounts to only 1% of the organization’s annual budget, the billionaire wrote: “Well, then we should fix it,” in an email to the reporter.

Of course he could've easily found this information for himself with a quick Google search, but then the decision to label NPR as "state media" was never about the facts and always about needling people he doesn't like.

They were merely the scam du jour until regulators caught up with them. The space has mostly moved on to NFTs though even those have lost their luster at this point. Who knows what's next?

“Should be there in an hour,” he called back over his shoulder to Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: “Wonder if dang's reached 65,535 karma points. He was due about now.”

Chuck didn’t reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just see Chuck’s face, a white oval turned toward the sky.

“Look,” whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.)

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

Twitter is so transparently Elon's personal playground now and it's sad. Between the "doge" rebrand, stripping the NYT of its verified status and now (and most egregiously IMO) this latest decision, he's just fucking with Twitter's userbase because he can.

This is acceptable only if the bike lanes are meaningfully and permanently separated from motor vehicle traffic. Most "bike lanes" are simple stripes painted alongside the road shoulder which cars/delivery trucks/etc. will happily use as parking, or which become blocked by snow or construction signs and force cyclists to weave around (and into car traffic).

I'm tired of the half-measures. Actively car-hostile urban planning is the dream, but at the very least we need to elevate alternative modes of transportation to the same level as the car.

No sweat. We the People will bail them out if their bonuses are ever threatened.

Or -- hear me out -- support the small business trying to make a living selling a good product at a reasonable price rather than insisting it be open-sourced, stripped for parts by the big-tech machine and inevitably left for dead.

All the people having fun are in VRChat or Neos, and most of them are furries. :)

NFTs: the thing nobody needed, let alone wanted, but which proved to be a sufficiently effective money laundering (sorry, "speculative") instrument that we all had to have it shoved down our throats for the better part of a year anyway.

Goodbye and good riddance.

It takes more energy to drive a car through mud than on pavement. The same principle would apply here.

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault. <-- YOU ARE HERE

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.

I can't help but find it interesting how this, perhaps his most shocking public display yet, barely seems to have moved the needle relative to previous Elon discourse here on HN. I guess even his most devoted sycophants are finding it hard to defend and everyone else is just sick to death of hearing about the guy.

Presumably those people weren't "hardcore" enough for Elon Twitter.

Twitter in the age of Elon continues to lurch from one embarrassment to the next.

I'm genuinely so grateful that Haiku exists. The fact that a band of enthusiasts has managed to keep the spirit of BeOS alive after all these years is really inspiring. To me it's an echo of what felt like a more hopeful era in computing, when the internet still felt like a magical place.

If I were to walk into someone's home or office and see this desk I would immediately make some very unflattering assumptions about that person.

Teenage Engineering has officially jumped the shark.

I'm curious to know who you would suggest supporting instead.

From the second I read the headline I knew that it was going to involve a Kia or Hyundai. It is utterly reprehensible that these companies were selling new cars without immobilizers as recently as last year! No layperson buying a new car would have any reason to suspect that this was the case especially when you consider that my Honda Fit (hardly a luxury ride) was equipped with one way back in 2010. Their choice to save pennies during manufacture has directly led to a staggering amount of damages to people whose only mistake was trusting a car manufacturer to do the right thing. I hope they get sued and I hope that they get taken to the cleaners.