The insane things is, in his mind, it’s just smart because his time is too important to waste in meetings. But only him, nobody else is allowed, and he’d be offended if anyone did it to him.

Which is, in a nutshell, the same mental gymnastics every pro-AI in the workplace person does.

This is an incredibly undeservedly positive profile for this company. So many paragraphs here look like they were written by Bending Spoons or are uncritically repeating direct claims by the company.

The company’s playbook has become clear: acquire underperforming but popular tech brands, then transform them to serve millions of users more efficiently through controversial changes to beloved products and substantial workforce reductions. It followed this pattern with Evernote and WeTransfer, and is now repeating it with Vimeo.

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Despite often being described as a private equity firm, Bending Spoons describes itself more specifically as a company that acquires and transforms digital businesses. Having grown to a headcount of 400 to 500 employees (whom the company calls “Spooners”), its main focus is on making improvements to products and services that others have created.

“Transform them to serve millions of users more efficiently”? “Its main focus is on making improvements to products and services…”?

Awfully strange ways to say their business model is “find companies with entrenched or locked-in userbases and then turn goodwill and inertia into profit by laying off all but a skeleton crew, increasing prices and lowering services and quality.” Good thing that is totally different from what a private equity buyout does.

The US gained basically nothing

You’re forgetting, though, that Trump changed the Epstein news cycle. So since Trump doesn’t understand the difference between him and the “US,” I’m sure he’d disagree with you.

Since now four seems possible, this timeline means we’ll probably lose one of the liberal justices as well for an even 5 picks, and a 7-2 court.

Oh, for sure. Their souls are so black that Anish Kapoor has exclusive rights.

But I wonder sometimes - if they are too stupid to not understand that money is happiness, does it matter? If they wake up every day in that bed of money thinking, “Oh, I’m so glad. Integrity is for those woke morons. Their tears were the perfect seasoning for my caviar, creme fraiche and blini breakfast. Truly I made all the right choices, and was chosen by God,” then does it make a difference?

I know we’re probably not even putting them in a metal box in this lifetime, but dream with me for a moment: If somehow we were able to impose a punishment on them that included the duty to feel shame, we’d probably need to teach them what shame is before they could even serve their time.

A related question: What is the least random Mario Party? We often end up playing this when friends come over since I guess I’m the only one who feels like it’s too random for anyone to meaningfully “win.”

Not to rain on anyone’s parade or anything, I’m glad you all and others have fun with it, I just would like to see if there’s a version that’s more like it’s a game of skill than chance.

Or maybe I just want WarioWare…