Depends on the news

What I find wild is at least at my walmart they pay the employees to shop for customers for their delivery service. Like how can that be cost effective? Walmart used to be a leader in tech in the 90s now it's applying ancient techniques to modern problems.

What's quite different?

The original Firebase and what Google is calling Firebase Studio

way too dumb for this

I mean only one of those is a bullshit job.

I think part of the bet of tariffs is that people will be less likely to go to physical stores moving forard anyways

Things have been moving in that direction since at least 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse

I would argue earlier as malls stopped being built by 2007....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_mall

They could have not been so partisan (https://readlion.com/93-of-college-profs-political-donations... ), supported rational discourse ( https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/2025-college-free-spe... ) , not used race to discriminate on certain out groups ( https://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/issue/discriminatio... ). Just for starters

>> Is there anything they could have done differently in the past decade or two to have broader sympathy now

> not used race to discriminate on certain out groups ( https://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/issue/discriminatio... )

Since we have documentation of discrimination in university admissions for over a century, I don't think this particular issue produces "broader sympathy now".

In fact, I will be speechless if I ever learn the new administration policies do not lead to even higher levels of, but I suppose different, discrimination. Check back in 6 months.

I cannot draw for the life of me. I would however like a ghibli version of my D&D character. Am I a bad person?

Like when Don Bluth left disney. He did have a good run though.