More Perfect Union has caught up to you on the military grocery stores thing: youtu.be/PQOXdtPBGXI

The "shadow network" of people standing on street corners with big yellow vests and whistles. "How'd you find that shadow network?" "Oh, he had a big 'Fuck ICE' sign and was handing out whistles with a phone number on them."

Uh-huh.

www.goodreads.com/quotes/35273...

Having a billion dollars you don't immediately give away means you're a monster. Every unfunded medical gofundme. Struggling food pantry. Evictions. You'd rather hoard more money than you could ever personally spend instead of buy school supplies for teachers, books for libraries...

I was trying to figure out why she would carry two trash bags on the red carpet. (Some sort of protest or statement?)

The federal government could not convert the United States to metric. This is not a naturally compliant country.

But they elected one to run the country.

Ellison was briefly the richest american for a couple days in 1999 (when Microsoft's stock fell 50% and Bill Gates briefly lost the crown) so banks have been willing to loan him unlimited money ever since, which was at the ZLB until recently. He hasn't mentally adjusted to interest above inflation.

Oracle's been doing an "upward retreat" from TWO disruptive technologies for 20 years: open source (postgresql/mysql doing what it already does), and new technology rendering oracle's design obsolete:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-memo...

They pivoted to patent trolling.