I ask this question honestly: do people *really* not understand the differences between the VMware offerings from the different cloud providers? Is it really a mystery why Broadcom wouldn't want to keep the AWS version going? Or are all these posts just engagement bait?

Oh no! Outside agitator!

The people in the comments with 'yeah, but...' are the ones telling you exactly where they would have stood on any civil rights protest.

Very strange that every four years we have to tell formally educated leftists that pragmatic progress is in fact better than Republican regress.

For all the burn it down 20 somethings out there threatening to withhold their vote for Biden because of foreign policy he largely can't control, understand this.

Your lives suck because a generation ago people were too 'uninspired' to vote for Gore.

Signed, a 2000 Nadar voter

Hey kids: Protest whatever the hell you want. Be loud. Be indignant. Be disruptive. Soon you'll be an adult with responsibilities and all the compromises that come with it. Right now is the time to stand up for what you believe in.

Don't let old people tell you differently.

Somewhere there's a Microsoft exec who understands that people have a visceral need to hate on MSFT for something, and who is grateful it's Teams at this moment in time.

Yes grant hill is on my train out of NYC. No, I'm not going to gas him up for being the GOAT of Nottoway Park 3-on-3 back in the day. He knows.

We revere the protests of the past, but we tsk-tsk the ones of the present.

Our country was founded in civil disobedience.

No intimidation, no antisemitism, no violence is ever OK.

But civil disobedience helps perfect us. Be curious about what young people are trying to say.

I went to a tiny state college in VA. We probably had 5-10 protests a year over various things. We protested Greek organizations, protested some speaker or guest lecturer, hell there was even a protest when Pauley Shore came to perform.

No one put a TV camera crew on campus.

I think of all the unforgivable behaviour I've seen in the tech industry over my career, the one that makes me the most angry is people who got theirs, and then pull up the ladder behind them. Sometimes it's individuals, sometimes it's entire companies.

Please. Don't do this.

You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.

Actual TikTok is banned in China already and the app made for China by Tiktok’s parent company is a complete propaganda tool for the government. Good riddance to TikTok. The thing is information warfare in a box(errr app).

Sorry for being out of the loop, but is there seriously a thing where middle class white men who play table games with little action figures they paint themselves are freaking out because the creators of the game added a....female character?

Tell me I'm wrong. Please? PLEASE.

What's interesting is not the instances when Amazon would *enforce* a non-compete, but when they wouldn't. Imagine being the guy who leaves for a direct competitor and having them be 'Nah, we are better with him there.'

That would have to hurt.