As part of our morning wake-up routine I’ve been giving Minnie three chicken-flavored treats every day. They’re infused with glucosamine, which is good for her joints.
This morning I dropped all three from waist height at the same time – and Minnie snatched all three from the air, simultaneously, before they hit the ground.
I was in awe.
The glucosamine is fantastic, btw. She’s a lot more active now.
With Affirmed Networks purchase, Microsoft looks to plug 5G into Azure - Light Reading. With its Affirmed acquisition, Microsoft is challenging telco software vendors such as Ericsson, Cisco and Mavenir.
It has nothing to do with the number “three.”
And it’s actually very cool, particularly if you’re a fan of retro-futurism — i.e., how people from past generations envisioned the future.
Gig workers for companies like Uber, Lyft would get unemployment benefits under $2 trillion Senate stimulus bill www.cnbc.com/2020/03/2…
Good news.
But Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is looking for a “third way” to classify workers, apart from employees or contractors. This sounds like self-serving rubbish to me. How are Uber drivers not employees?
Huawei ‘rip and replace’ price tag doubles to $2B amid coronavirus outbreak www.lightreading.com/security/…
Chump change after a $2T bailout.
Microsoft is right now groaning under the weight of a 52,000-person internal Reply-All email storm. www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/2…
Trump threatened to sue media outlets that air a political commercial that accurately quoted his statements ridiculing the coronavirus threat. thehill.com/homenews/…
More from Cory: pluralistic.net/2020/03/2…
The thesis of the new book is that “the ‘laws’ of economics are actually policies, created to ‘justify a society’s inequalities,’ providing a rationale to convince poor people not to start building guillotines.”
My $0.02: You see this in one of the main conservative and so-called moderate Democrat arguments against Medicaire-for-All: That we can’t afford it.
If society can’t afford to save lives, then we can’t afford to have that society.
There are other arguments against M4A, namely that it might suck. I do not necessarily share those arguments, but they are reasonable.
Cory:
The elites' indifference to working people is grounded in an alliance between the Brahmin Left (educated, well-paid liberals) and the Merchant Right (the finance sector). Notionally leftist parties, like the Democrats, are dominated by the Brahmin Left.
Me: This is one of the leading Republican criticisms of the national Democratic Party. And it has a lot of merit to it.
But more than any other, Macron epitomizes this alliance: proclaiming his liberal values while slashing taxes on the wealthy — punishing poor people for driving cars, exempting private jets from his “climate” bill.
Life in a “meritocracy” is especially cruel for poor people, because meritocracies, uniquely among ideologies, blame poor people for poverty. It’s right there in the name. French kings didn’t think God was punishing peons, rather, that the Lord had put them there to serve.
Journalist practices social distancing in unexpected encounter with a herd of bison.
“Oh my God. Oh, no, I’m not messing with you.”
Funny.
Who would you be willing to sacrifice – have them die – to keep the stock market up? Sullen teen offspring? Obnoxious neighbor who runs the lawnmower and/or snowblower at 7 am Saturdays? Coworker who never makes a fresh pot of coffee? Discuss.
