Last time I went round with someone on this, they insisted that this is just normal business procedure to order product on credit.

To me, while trade credit is definitely a thing, for orders this large I expect there’s some more substantial backing for it.

Ultimately it probably fits in somewhere on a chart of financial shenanigans like this one:

I think it’s more like “we need 6 million chips for this year, and we’ll pay you eventually, maybe”.

But yeah the outcome is the same.

It crashes and catches fire?

That doesn’t seem like a good selling point.

That’s complete bullshit:

Software I’ve written is owned by me.

Open-source licenses (F/LOSS) mostly cannot be revoked.

Public domain exists.

I think you might be thinking of databases… Access (barf), not Excel.

I do think databases and tables are a useful thing but most database systems require over-specifying fields via esoteric “column types” while spreadsheets underspecify them via formatting (and extremely limited formatting at that)

Some happy medium must exist out there, but I haven’t seen it. Notion and Google Docs (Format /Convert to Table) approach this but don’t quite get there.

So tempting to downvote this post and all its comments ;-)

Nah, it’s Martin Shkreli

Tip-toe Through the Tulips, by Tiny Tim

What a timely post, usually I don’t have songs stuck in my head.

It’s a good start now let’s expand beyond London.

Or just, y’know, not bother with fucking up everyone else’s lives.

That’s not more sunlight though! The numbers changed without making any difference.

The only thing that changes when daylight-saving goes into effect is that we suddenly decide to get up at 6 am but call it 7 am for some reason.

If you want more sunlight get up earlier, don’t change the clocks!

To take your example:

almost nobody is up at 4-5 AM, and almost everybody wants to stay out from 7-9 PM in the summer.

Without daylight-saving time it’s exactly the same except the numbers: “nobody is up at 5-6 AM and everybody wants to stay out from 8-10 PM in the summer”

This has zero impact on our daily schedule except for the numbers we assign to it.

Daylight-saving time fucks with our daily schedule twice a year for no reason.

About 8 hours before noon, and about 8 hours after. That’s… as it should be.

It seems fine to me. What’s the problem?

Morning accidents increased and schoolchildren were injured or killed.

With car culture as it is now, that’ll just be seen as business as usual.

You might want to use some paragraphs there…

Is the “surprise hurdle” that it’s a dumb idea?

That’s actually not what happened according to the article. The driver hit their pilot/escort car and pushed it into them.

The klan hasn’t even existed for that long, so no they haven’t.