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Seems like an appropriate companion piece:

The 49MB Web Page

I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones.

I guess I must have seen that here in the Fedi.

This is a great story to illuminate the large number of problems that could be addressed by decent public transit, better options for walking and biking, etc.

Is the Umbrella Corporation logo on her shirt relevant to anything?

[X] I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

At least her opinion was changeable. By something. For many, that’s not the case.

It’s been 11 years since our president announced he was running for office. She would have been about 24. It’s possible that the biggest thing that changed is: she grew up a little.

“The utility” has never had a way to prevent you from doing something dangerous with your wiring or with the electricity they send you. The best we’ve managed has been to encourage appliance manufacturers to design their products with safety in mind, through the UL program (which is voluntary). This is why the writer talked to the “vice president of engineering at UL Solutions.”

There was a time when Amazon was not full of scummy rip-off products, when it was not playing games with prices, when it was not a cloud-computing powerhouse, and you know what happened?

That’s right, they crushed their adversaries (retail shopping) and earned billions in profits. They won.

But somehow that’s not enough winning, there isn’t enough winning until all the value has been vacuumed up from the world.