Midnight Pub

"hey hey mama, have you read the news..."

~tffb

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ns

I don't know why software companies insist on injecting news into everything. Actually, that's a lie, I have a pretty good guess. On the web I've taken to using uBlock Origin's element zapper to delete any news widgets on sites. Works pretty well.

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tffb

I will start using the uBlock feature you mentioned. Been a uBlock user for close to a decade. Love it. Lifesaver! :)

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inquiry

Hmmm, I found an Elizabeth Holmes Wikipedia entry:

Elizabeth Holmes

Or am I misunderstanding who's Wikipedia entry you were looking for?

Whatever. I'd completely forgotten about that person. And those people. Thieves, if you ask me, just because we all know what normal work is worth, and so clearly they exercised means other than normal work to amass what they did.

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tffb

That's her, but I was looking for other info regarding a photoshoot she was in back when her co was new. It was her, Zuckerberg, and all these 30-under-30 crowd types in a group photo, and it is sort of egg-on-the-face to be affiliated with her now, when (in all reality) all, or at least some, in the photo had their own skeletons that they wish not be brought to light.

But yea, in regards to "amass" the billions she did - it was all a performance. She didn't have new tech (in fact, everything was total science fiction, as she was claiming something not biologically possible). But still, as the saying goes "no one EARNS a billion dollars - they steal it!"

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inquiry

I get a kick out of this from the Wikipedia article:

> During high school, she was interested in computer
> programming and says she started her first business
> selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities.

As though "computer programming" and "selling C++ compilers" were on some kind of an endeavor par.

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tffb

Haha

"person gets job at deli, selling club sandwiches to locals".

Cause > effect

"person studies computer programming, sells C++ compilers to Chinese universities"

About as clear and common as woods crapping from Kodiaks ;)

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