Entertaining writing!

> At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth. Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended. I did too, so I made the decision to significantly increase our investments. Unfortunately, this did not play out the way I expected.

This is very similar to the Stripe layoff memo at https://stripe.com/en-it/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons...

The structure of the two documents is very similar too. Is that a standard pattern of did Meta took Stripe's memo and adapted it to suit their needs?

That links a bit out of date...

>Questions are now being raised over how long Truss will remain in office

Nearly everyone who was a teenager in the 1990s had the same song lyric play in their head When reading this headline.

In case anyone is wondering: this wasn't a scam, but an art exhibit in an art museum about an openly fake civilization, done by an artist with mostly repurposed "found" objects.

The "convincingly exhibited" of the title is misleading. It wasn't about deceiving people, it was about world-building. It wasn't shown at a history museum.

It wasn't a hoax, but more of an artistic "mockumentary" for a made up civilization. Almost borgean...

The article is kind of hysterical, but has some interesting information in. I always wondered what to do with plastic bags and bottles and stuff in places where there is no rubbish collection. Burning seems popular, but despite looking up DIY home incineration it seems like not much effort is being put into this.

I also wondered why there aren't deposits on plastic bottles like there are on glass bottles. In the end it should probably be up to the companies who produce them, like Coca Cola to deal with them, but there probably needs to be an incentive to return them.

The worst gift I've received from work was a $100 digital multi-store gift card. It probably seemed like such a reasonable thing to give (and I even liked it at first, too). Unfortunately, it turned out to be really difficult to redeem it in full for the combinations of things I would like at the places where it's redeemable.

I'm fairly sure I've already spent more than $100 in my time on trying to use it. So in a sense, I was gifted negative money. When I realised this I ended up throwing it in the rubbish bin.

It would have been so much more efficient for everyone involved to just send me an extra $100 in cash. Put it in an envelope with a fancy card if you want to make it special. But eh, gotta feed the gift card business.

I think they should pursue the indictments instead. Others' thoughts?