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Intuit possibly succumbs to the Streisand effect
  • Eh. Honestly, the line of "questions" was rather stupid.

    "Why aren't you lobbying to make your business irrelevant" is essentially what the interviewer pushed aggressively.

    Sure, I get calling out a CEO for deflecting tough questions with corporate BS. But it was a pretty dumb line of questioning in the first place.

    Why isn't Google lobbying for privacy protections?

    Why isn't Comcast lobbying for net neutrality?

    Just make your statement and ask for comment. "Our listeners consider Intuits lobbying against tax reform that would benefit tax payers to be adversarial to their customers. What would you say to them?"

  • [San Francisco] Bay Area veteran asked to deplane Delta flight due to 'threatening' shirt
  • I don't know. I haven't seen the shirt. That's the point.

    Just because I agree with the text of the shirt doesn't mean it's appropriate to wear in an enclosed area with a bunch of stressed out people known for drama just like this.

  • [San Francisco] Bay Area veteran asked to deplane Delta flight due to 'threatening' shirt
  • Eh. Intentionally incitive clothing is banned for a good reason. You don't want drama from political rivalry happening in an air bus hours away from an airport.

    I don't mind the policy of "STFU for X hours until you get to your destination". This includes people trying to incite you.

    Whether or not this is extreme enough to warrant incoming this rule is another matter. As the person you responded to implied, there may be a way to present that opinion in a highly inciteful way thats not fully realized by the wording alone, so they're withholding judgement. That seems prudent.

  • “I Love Cows”: Team Trump Is Worried His Fumbles Are Helping Harris
  • Stop using his word for it.

    Weave implies intent, a pattern reaching a goal.

    He meanders. He wanders, taking tangents as they appear in his brain, and he eventually circles back to the topic on the prompter (sometimes).

    He Family Circus' his way around in random directions and might make it back home if he's lucky.

    He doesn't weave, he meanders.

  • 'Is Trump okay?' Confusion as 'exhausted' ex-president abruptly ends friendly interview
  • What stress as president? He just golfs and when pushed for a decision on something, just picks randomly from the options presented. He doesn't even bother understand what the options are. Remember the whole injecting bleach crap? That was him literally glancing at a slide and running with it, obviously with no prior briefing.

  • ‘They don’t think he’s talking about them’: Trump support rises with Latinos
  • Their Spanish channels are ridiculously overrun with right wing propaganda. My wife is Venezuelan, and it's crazy the crap her parents believe. And they are sweet, non-hateful people. But they live in a little bubble where all the news fed to them is through a right wing filter, and they don't believe it because it's not like they're watching Fox News or something.

  • They're Never Happy
  • Details are confusing. These people like "I'll fix all your problems" with no actual substance, and then when their problems are not solved, they like hearing "it's the Jews Immigrants fault".

    Solutions are not even desired by these people, just a scapegoat for all their woes.

  • We're coming for you
  • Mosquitos are pollinators. And in some parts of the world that have extreme seasons that can't sustain bees, they seem rather important to the ecosystem.

    Instead of eradicating them, genetically engineering away the numbing in their saliva that causes the allergic reaction in humans could be a solution.

    I'll trade a couple weeks of itchy bites for a briefly painful bite any day.

    Sure, humans would kill them instantly on feeling the bite, but most animals are not capable of that. Their populations would be fine.