You are a selfish ignoramus asshole.

If you get infected, you might very well end up in an ICU and on a ventilator at a cost of north of $100,000 which I'm guessing you don't have, so guess who has to pay for it? Oh yeah, the rest of us. Also, long COVID is very much a thing that exists. It can cause lung damage, cognitive impairment, and a whole host of other problems that could very well hamper your ability to earn a living. Guess what? Then we have to support you on disability. And as mentioned, you then become a vector for mutations that the current vaccines don't work against. That puts us right back to square one, doesn't it? Or, you could get one of the very highly effective vaccines and do the rest of us and yourself a favour, but oh no, you just have to be an American, don't you?

Sometimes, living in a civilised society comes at a price, whether it's paying taxes, (mostly) obeying the law, jury duty, or getting vaccinated so that you're not spreading lethal pathogens.

(Yes, I'm feeling pissy today)

Translation: "Well, we can pretty much almost kinda sorta make it work in the lab slightly more than half the time."

F/K/A Accenture (pronounced "ass-enter" - anyone else remember Fucked Company?)

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FTFY.

Trump negotiated with the Taliban.

The CEO will still get tens of millions in bonuses even after this blatant dereliction of duty. Because freedom.

MURICA!

From TFA, the decryption tool they received was too slow:

If you do, then you have been thoroughly propagandised.

1. No, you're probably not. You're probably pretty average just like the rest of us. And that's okay.

2. In a stack rank system, you can be at the bottom even if you are a top performer. Guess what? Buh bye.

What has been seen cannot be unseen, as you just found out.

IOW, for the last 10 years, Intel literally had more money than it knew what to do with. And now they want to suckle at the government teat while subjecting the rest of us to unbridled cutthroat capitalism.

"Socialism for thee, but not for me."

Yeah, fuck that noise.

Companies that don't pay taxes want taxpayer cash.

Or in this case, you get a lot, you give more.

If the corporations want some of that sweet, sweet taxpayer cash, then they can ditch the "shareholder value is god" horseshit and start behaving in a more prosocial manner. Some ideas:

-- Start paying a flat Federal tax of 25% of net profits as reported to shareholders.
-- All work done in the US by US citizen workers. No H-1Bs or any other foreign worker visas.
-- Cap C*O pay to a multiplier of worker pay.
-- Transparent hiring practises that make logical sense. No more blanket four-year degree requirements.
-- Eight hour workday, 40 hour work week, double time for overtime.
-- Paid vacation and sick days.
-- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits.
-- Workplace rules that are transparent, fair, reasonable, and consistent.
-- Job security: Layoffs only as an absolute last resort, progressive discipline, termination only for just cause.
-- Apprenticeship training - bring people in and train them.

Don't like it? All of this is anathema to what you were taught in B-school? Well, I guess you don't want that sweet, sweet taxpayer cash then.

By contrast, America allowed M$ to claim with absolute impunity that unbundling IE/Edge/whateverthefuck from Windows was impossible and would unleash TEOTWAWKI. A few billion in EU fines later and all of a sudden, M$ started allowing users to opt out of its shitty browser. Result? Other browsers were able to compete at long last and M$'s browser market share fell from practically 100% to below 20% practically overnight.