They tech companies themselves likely won’t get a bailout, but don’t rule out the Fed warming up the ol’ money printer. All the borrowing for data centers, where do you think they’re borrowing from. Banks, insurance companies, bond investors and private credit funds. Those first two are the key. If a too-big-to-fail bank or insurance company gets jammed up by their own bad loans to hyperscalers, you best believe they’re going to the Fed, hat in hand, asking for another bowl of that sweet, sweet quantitative easing.

Doctors use what works! If the research says that methadone plus rehab is a more effective treatment for opioid addiction than just rehab, they’ll use methadone plus rehab.

It’s basically the same reason people use nicotine gum to help quit smoking. The cravings can be really tough to manage, so having something that allows you to reduce those gives you a much better chance to successfully quit.

Interesting note, you know what the treatment for severe alcoholism is? More alcohol! Alcohol addiction can get to the point where patients will literally die if they go cold turkey. Doctors can and do prescribe alcohol in those cases.

People would just do that, but an app can harvest soooo much more telemetry data. Business executives will claim the app provides a “richer experience,” by which they mean they’ll experience getting richer by harvesting more customer data to sell.

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now…

This Cisco field notice has diagrams for the curious.

The original self-checkout!

Not sure about Teams, but for Zoom you’re only first locally. Everyone else sees themselves first in their local client. The ordering of participants in Zoom meetings is documented here. There’s a whole bunch of logic behind the scenes; muted vs. unmuted, whether the participant called in, etc.

It’s always the people you most suspect.

I thought they were banana slices. Kiwi would be even more cursed, which I didn’t think was possible. Either way, kind of it to warn us of the danger it poses! Biohazard symbols might be more appropriate though.

Not the most ragged lookin’ ship I’ve ever seen, but for a representative of the world’s most expensive Navy she’s looking absolutely shabby.