To be fair, most Western religious traditions also treat death as taboo — they just aren’t as explicit about it as they are with sex.

Alexa, call 911. OP is having a stroke

which should web you browser use

More.

In just 10 more years, it’ll only be 40 more years!

Only ten more years, and we’ll have it!

Okay, maybe a little evil…

Oh shit, a Blame! reference in wild…

To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld: You don’t run for office with the electorate you want, you run for office with the electorate you have.

Do no harm (to quarterly earnings)

Basically just another way of saying a cubicle

bundled a game pass subscription

Most of the money MS gets from Office365 is from business users, not home users. I have a feeling that trying to sell game pass to corporate clients isn’t going to be a huge hit…

Is there any case where cynicism is helpful?

There are insufficient funds for a meaningful answer.

Nobody is seriously looking for ‘habitable’ planets because they expect humanity will someday inhabit them — this is all about the hunt for other life out there in the universe.

To astronomers, “habitable” just means that the planet gets to correct amount of energy from its star that liquid water could potentially exist on its surface. Liquid water may not actually be a requirement for life, but since we only have a single data point to work from, it makes sense to look for the preconditions of the kind of life we’re familiar with on earth, of which liquid water is a big one. (Another is carbon chemistry, so finding lots of atmospheric carbon isn’t necessarily a bad thing when searching for other life out there.)

While massive energy usage means a substantial environmental impact for these tech giants, it should be noted that Google and Microsoft also generate more money than many countries. Furthermore, companies like Intel, Google, and Microsoft lead renewable energy adoption within the industry.

So fucking what? That’s like excusing a mass-murderer because he’s rich and he promised to “not kill quite as many people in the future.”

What a useless and pandering thing to say.