Serve your users. What languages do they speak / understand? Cater for those languages first.

Welcome to IT. Spend a decade or more learning and specialising your craft. Be out managed by a junior product manager. 🫠

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I blame the parents.

Ahh no worries ☺️. All good.

You don’t think the program will be picked up by another government actor? It’s only the US that can do this?

Hmmm 🤔. I think that given how important the work is some other government organisation will absolutely pick up the work if the US want to wash their hands of it.

The program will be picked up by others in the fullness of time. It’s a shit move, for sure, but I bet the calculus here is that the US will still benefit from someone else doing the hard work but without paying for it.

The only thing the US loses here is prestige. And I’m totally fine with that.

Mass easy unchecked access to high powered assault rifles.

I was in Hong Kong and after a glorious day sightseeing and walking around it suddenly started to thunder. Rain everywhere. No shelter in sight. People slipping down the stairs running through the streets. Cars splashing puddles everywhere. Bus and tram stops full of people trying to avoid the rain. I quickly ducked into a department store before I was fully soaked but thought, “fuck I have another twenty minutes walk to get back to the hotel”. So I looked around the store for a few minutes and found the accessory section where they keep the umbrellas. Perfect! This was going to be the best impulse buy of my life.

I picked up a designer leather belt that I had been searching years for online. There it was, right in front of me, at a decent price. So I bought it.

If you’re white and have a reasonable amount of money you’ll be fine anywhere in Europe 😬… I’m only half joking.

sigh sarcasm and the internet strike again. 🫠

The US is under the impression that it won the Cold War against Russia.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zm4eqvp7o

In an interview with pro-Trump journalist Tucker Carlson, Witkoff (Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine) praised Vladimir Putin, saying he “liked” the Russian president.

“I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy,” he said. “He’s super smart.”

During the interview, Witkoff repeated various Russian arguments, including that Ukraine was “a false country” and asked when the world would recognise occupied Ukrainian territory as Russian.

Witkoff is leading the US ceasefire negotiations with both Russia and Ukraine but he was unable to name the five regions of Ukraine either annexed or partially occupied by Russian forces.

Get gud? 😄

What’s the calculation that investors / the stock market is making here? That in time Twitter will become less of a cesspit and that ads can be served? Or is this just YOLO money?

Took me a second but finally got it.

Mr Freeman, we meet again.

La papa

Seppo, septic tank, yank. Love it! Cockney rhyming slang strikes again?

Unfortunately the USAians are so dominant in the region of the Americas that they’ve coopted the term American for most people. My Columbian friend hates when we refer to USAians as Americans because he says “hey we were here first” 😆. But unfortunately that’s the way it is.

Yanks or Yankee Doodles is what we used to call them but they get rather upset these days when you call them that. I wouldn’t call them gringos because it just sounds unnatural for a Brit to say that seriously.

It’s shit

Why would your King’s best friend be charged with anything? The only thing he’s going to get charged with is how to funnel your public money into his bank account.