Sent in a submission for an Ayn Rand essay contest.

Yes.

If a billionaire is in actual trouble, he's in China. US would have bailed out Evergrande.

he needs one on the other side to match

I feel even better replacing a new or old sponge with a brush that will never get that awful sponge smell

"Latinum lasts longer than lust."

Iron Man, with the DoD contractor CEO hero and the product placement.

"Earner" doesn't sound like the right word for people who make their money by owning things instead of working.

2023 was absolutely the year I dove back into music piracy. I started with downloading youtube playlists but the real game changer was soundiiz, which allowed me to import text, m3u, csv, spotify, xspf playlists into qobuz and deezer so i can download whole playlists of FLAC with qobuz-dl and deemix-gui. My collection went from 20,000 to 100,000, downloading playlists from qobuz and deezer, xspf playlists from my remaining lossy music. I used streamripper on a few web radio stations just to get a list of songs to pull down this way. I only bought music for years and years, but that got me a narrow type of collection.

The usual. Journalists, democracy, threats to fascism and corporate profits at home and abroad.

She doesn't respond to much these days at all.

It's like the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft 22 years ago. They are still trying to push their browser.