Damn, what a cheapskate. A chance to play Minecraft with a friendly space alien and you can’t even pay for a legit copy. Probably going to give that alien a computer virus and doom us all. Don’t put this guy in charge.

Likely as a condition of the pause and hostage exchange.

I hope that orange bastard Trump goes to prison or dies in 2024. I prefer prison because he needs to pay for his crimes, but dead is good too. The only thing is it would have to be a really dumb accident out in public so there wouldn’t be any conspiracy theories. Maybe he could fall off the stairs while getting off his plane and crack his skull on the tarmac.

I use it for a couple things, although my primary browser is Firefox. I use Google Workspace for my business so I have a Chrome profile set up for that. Another business I’m involved with uses M365. It’s easy to set up another Chrome profile for that. I like to keep work separate from my personal stuff and this setup works well for me.

These sites are the glory holes of the internet.

I think the only benefit he will ever get from this is never having to pay income tax again.

What government? It certainly won’t be the U.S. government bailing out this fool and his stupid website. Maybe he can go ask MBS or Putin.

This is insane. Why would anyone want to bail out the world's richest man?

I don’t think so. The man is truly stupid.

I don't know if that's a fair criticism. I think I first saw something about this thing yesterday. Not much of a marketing push. I had to look it up to see what the heck it is. It seems to have a very specific and narrow use case. I'm sure it's a nice option for people with that need and works well enough, but it's not exactly something the masses are clamoring for. There's similar tech out there and they are sort of niche products. I don't expect this thing to be selling like hotcakes.

They would send you on your way. There’s a show - I think on Apple - called Black Bird about a real life serial killer with a history of false confessions. It’s kind of a significant plot point. Good show.

$23M of the loss is from the first half of this year. There was a $10M regulatory settlement and another $11M spent on "legal investigations", which covers the bulk of that. I don't have the time nor the inclination to really dig into it, but you can look at the filing here: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001849635/000119312523276045/d408563ds4a.htm

They lost $50M last year. I haven't looked at that filing so I don't have a clue what they spent that on besides $5M on "legal investigations" in the first half.

This company is a total scam. It's basically a slush fund for Trump. What would probably be more of a bombshell than the spending is where the money is coming from. It's all but guaranteed that it's primarily foreign money. Probably also some rich MAGA wackadoos buying influence.