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As a hearing aid user myself since ~birth, and a technologist who likes to build things, this sort of situation would be a double nightmare: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/planned-obsolescence-cochlear-implants/

Imagine if your glasses stopped working without getting software updates. It's insanity, with shades of @pluralistic's "Unauthorized Bread".

Who Pays the Price When Cochlear Implants Go Obsolete?

Some cochlear implant users who can’t afford to keep up with compulsory technology upgrades are now losing their hearing.

SAPIENS

NOPE. He said REVENUE not PROFITS.

PAY UP ELON.

https://twitter.com/Jeffswaterworks/status/1661447809680265234

on Twitter

“@JuddLegum I think he meant “bottom line” revenue, of which there is none.”

Twitter
Republican debt-limit plan would cut US jobs, slow growth, economist tells Senate panel

A Republican <a href="/world/us/whats-us-house-republicans-debt-ceiling-spending-cut-bill-2023-04-27/">plan</a> to cut federal spending in exchange for lifting the U.S. government's <a href="/markets/us/us-debt-ceiling-straightforward-vote-is-not-usual-path-2023-02-01/">debt ceiling</a> would lower employment, slow economic growth and "meaningfully increase" the likelihood of a recession, Moody's Analytics' chief economist told a Senate committee on Thursday.

Reuters
Tina Turner Dead: Legendary Rock & Soul Singer Was 83

Tina Turner, known as the Queen of Rock’n Roll for her blistering performances and powerfully gritty vocals, died today after a long illness at her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. …

Deadline
The goal of banning abortion (control women, push them out of public life) is very blatant when all male SC GOP legislators voted to ban it; all women legislators voted against the ban. The 5 women wore buttons which said "Elect more women."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/male-republican-senators-ignore-women-vote-for-abortion-ban-in-south-carolina
Male Republican Senators Ignore Women, Vote for Abortion Ban in South Carolina

Despite pleas from their five female colleagues, the men of the Republican-led South Carolina Senate voted to ban abortion after six weeks on Tuesday.

The Daily Beast

White supremacist caught at the White House.

Assault with a dangerous weapon
Reckless operation of a motor vehicle
The threat to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm on a President, Vice President, or family

Many of you, even here, take issue when I call these people domestic terrorists

Missing the forest for the trees and getting upset over semantics

Let me make myself clear. White supremacists are domestic terrorists

If you see it otherwise then you’re part of the problem

A driver may have deliberately crashed his box truck into security barriers at Lafayette Square across from the White House last evening, according to the Secret Service.
At least 20 girls perished in Mahdia secondary school blaze - Gov’t - Stabroek News

Twenty female students of the Mahdia Secondary School were killed after a dormitory blaze started minutes before midnight last night. The fire reportedly

Stabroek News
Ivanka Trump IN TROUBLE after VIOLATING Court Order

YouTube

2/ "A NYT passage about convicted ex-CIA leaker John Kiriakou, who paid an unnamed Trump associate $50K w a contingent promise of $50K more if a pardon was granted, incl a jaw-dropping if unproven allegation:

“& Kiriakou was separately told that Trump’s personal lawyer Giuliani could help him secure a pardon for $2 million. Kiriakou rejected the offer, but an associate, fearing that Giuliani was illegally selling pardons, alerted the F.B.I. Mr. Giuliani challenged this characterization.”