> take the money back in skin

Haven't we already reached that point? They were trying to kill a guy ...

There's a war going on you know right?

True, and if you’d read my follow-up comment, you might understand my point a bit better.

But my original comment was unclear, so it’s my bad.

As opposed to what action would do themselves a favor?

Gift link

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/opinion/indian-americans-...

That's not what the ruling is about. Read the article.

Not just annoying, these kinds of behaviors seem to feed scam companies.

The ads I get on Youtube ...

Facebook doesn't care about scam companies as long as they get paid.

Big tech and scams are becoming a hand in hand thing.

I don't think they care because I'm still on youtube, but I agree. I think of youtube as a very scamy place.

I have my history turned off so I get some really bottom of the barrel ads, questionable medical advice, gross out ads, borderline porn, weird conspiracy theory stuff (5G blocking hats), and straight scams "buy our product or AI will replace your job" and my recent favorite "if you're not buying our product people are manipulating you ... so give us your money so we can help you" (the irony is thick with those).

Youtube is scam / bad idea central when I turn it on.

I get all those same ads on YouTube. It’s easily >90% complete scam products, and most of the non-scam products are at least breaking YouTube’s own “rules” regarding what content is allowed. Like if one of the reportable reasons is “addictive product” why do I see so many ads for nicotine products?

I tried to report an ad that had literal nudity/porn in it. The report page was acting funky so I pulled it up manually in safari where I wasn’t logged in. and it made be log in to report the ad because the ad was age restricted. why is it running as an advertisement at all then? Clearly it got flagged somewhere to be age restricted.

YouTube has approximately zero incentive to fix this. They are a complete monopoly and there isn’t any consequence to any of the blatantly illegal products that I see advertised on their platform. I’ve seen ads for drugs and firearms. The firearm ad was claiming it was “easy to sneak past security” but the highest consequence is that the ad account gets nuked and another immediately takes its place.

>controlling the exchange rate by addressing corruption

Is this a real issue? The exchange rate is influenced by corruption?

I believe their currency is under the direct control of the politicians/clerics running the country, and the government doesn't seem too concerned with the country. So its plausable they could be bribed to change monetary policy.

Most of the non "cut everything" GOP plans still involve trying to get the consumer to shop around, but shopping around is impossible. The consumer can't be a consumer and impact the market if they don't know what is going on.

The system is fundamentally broken.

I go to the doctor and I have zero clue what will come back on the bills.

Maybe something happened and it ended up on some list.

For an inauguration party ... seems like a non story.

Their acquisition of Jony Ive's organization for a ton of money and that creepy webpage https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/ makes me think OpenAI is just racing for headlines and groping in the dark for some magic fairy dust.

ChatGPT isn't bad, I use it for some things / pay for it, but their spend and moves make me think that they don't seem confidant in it ...

Is all the doomer-ism about AI companies not being profitable right? Do the AI companies believe it? Seems like it sometimes.

This is such a bizarre page. Thanks for sharing!

Sam wants so bad for OpenAI to be a proper big tech company, probably one that's more culturally similar to Apple-y than Google/MSFT-y so I guess they are cargo-culting some parts of Apple. That website reminds me of a very low quality version of Apple's myth-making ala Think Different. Ive is obviously also a big part of the cargo cult.