[fiatpandas]

If the Firefox deal doesn’t make sense (too much?), then what is the hidden strategic rationale?

>Things are only being held together by technicians who are aging out of the workforce

100%. This terrifies me.

Loss of compartmentalization in society, mostly due to the internet, needs examination.

[pessimizer]

They're literally like "there's not really any evidence of this" in a thread about the millionth piece of evidence of this. And since it's the Paris Review doing a limited hangout about the Paris Review (the minor detail that the co-founder was a CIA agent), it somehow ends up admiring him for his love of nature.

The shame is how easy it is to do this now, not that it has been done for a century. Western elites have gotten so stupid and authoritarian that you don't even need to hide the seams anymore, you can joke about them and ban people who don't laugh.

edit: also notable about the Paris Review itself is that nobody reads it, most of what was published in it at its peak was horrible and turned out to be completely ephemeral. You won't have ever heard of most of the writers in it, who went on to university appointments (or never left them.) It was a tool for providing an income to particular writers and justifications for other initiatives; a thinktank. Comic books had more staying power.