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Fox Corp. Closes $22B Acquisition of Roku

jimt1234 — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:29:22 +0000

Article URL: https://deadline.com/2026/11/fox-corp-closes-roku-acquisition-1237215436/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50394544

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by jimt1234 in "MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

jimt1234 — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 01:00:36 +0000

Et tu, Paint?

New comment by jimt1234 in "Democrats Rout GOP"

jimt1234 — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:58:29 +0000

I don't think we're gonna get our $5000 checks. LOL

New comment by jimt1234 in "The Ford Privacy Promise: You're in Control of Your Data"

jimt1234 — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:20:33 +0000

There should be an "airplane mode" for cars.

Social Security Administration Best Performance in Agency History

jimt1234 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:49:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ssa.gov/wins/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317782

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by jimt1234 in "'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack"

jimt1234 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:26:50 +0000

That's my feeling, too. It's probably my TDS, but it just seems weird that the shady founder of Binance got busted for laundering money, then got a shady pardon from Trump, and now billions have mysteriously gone missing. Someone's gonna have to kick up a portion of that money to Trump; he'll lay it all on North Korea and we'll all move onto the next headline.

New comment by jimt1234 in "Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It"

jimt1234 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:48:29 +0000

In the US there's an extreme attitude of "I'm not paying for someone else...", and any sort of preventative care, like a heart score test, would fall into that category. This attitude is grounded on the personal responsibility mindset, that every person is responsible for taking care of themselves. So, for the 800K people that had heart attacks, the attitude in the US is largely, "They should've been proactive on their own, gotten the $100 test. Their heart attack is their own fault."

New comment by jimt1234 in "El Niño is flooding California's coasts with the highest tides to come"

jimt1234 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:12:51 +0000

The line I hear all the time is: "Why do I care if sea levels rise a couple of inches? I don't own a house on the beach!"

New comment by jimt1234 in "‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)"

jimt1234 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:57:33 +0000

I grew up in the suburbs of St. Louis during the 70s and 80s. My district was one of the last to desegregate schools in the state, fought for years to avoid it. Well, it finally happened in the early-80s, a 'bussing' program was started to bring Black kids from North St. Louis to attend schools in my district. I was probably 12 or 13 years old. I remember all the adults in the neighborhood were furious. There were protests outside my school on the first day. People threw rocks at the bus from North St. Louis when it pulled into the parking lot.

It was a little tense at school for, maybe, a few hours, but mostly it was just confusion - WTF is going on?. But after that, it was cool. All the kids quickly realized we're all basically the same - we all hated homework and were intimidated by girls, the usual adolescent stuff. I didn't know it at the time, but the school deseg program was one of the most impactful events of my childhood.

New comment by jimt1234 in "The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history"

jimt1234 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:56:33 +0000

Any time the Dodgers or Yankees don't win the World Series, that's a reason to celebrate.

New comment by jimt1234 in "The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history"

jimt1234 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:55:26 +0000

Both teams are small-ish markets. (Milwaukee is the smallest market.) Neither team has big-name players like Shohei Ohtani or Juan Soto. In other words, this was the series MLB didn't want, especially with the upcoming contracts talks.

New comment by jimt1234 in "About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs"

jimt1234 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:21:51 +0000

A full operating system update, which includes auto-enabling a bunch of unwanted AI features and 50-GB of local models. Ugh.

New comment by jimt1234 in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

jimt1234 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:14:15 +0000

According to my MAGA friends/family, Antifa is the biggest threat to the US.

New comment by jimt1234 in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

jimt1234 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:10:07 +0000

Yeah, just like the J6 rioters. Oh wait. Shit.

New comment by jimt1234 in "Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior"

jimt1234 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:10:28 +0000

They're not confessing. They're bragging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c14vfq3jqpo

New comment by jimt1234 in "NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket"

jimt1234 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:43:14 +0000

Nothing to be concerned about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E5crppxBn8

New comment by jimt1234 in "Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions"

jimt1234 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:29:23 +0000

BTW, I found this take very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHE7oBvOk9U

New comment by jimt1234 in "Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions"

jimt1234 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:53:29 +0000

Accusation in a mirror

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror

New comment by jimt1234 in "Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions"

jimt1234 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:26:38 +0000

My understanding is that they don't need to destroy records related to Kushner because he's not a government employee, his records aren't required to be retained. And that is, no doubt, by design.

New comment by jimt1234 in "The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck"

jimt1234 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:44:31 +0000

Friendly PSA, hopefully unnecessary: If you attend one of these 'No Kings' gatherings, or any similar gathering, please coordinate with your friends/associates beforehand and leave your phone at home. Or, turn-off your phone or, at the very least, disable all the radios (airplane mode). Also, try to cover your face - Covid mask or big hat and sunglasses, and don't wear any identifying clothing, like the name of your employer. All that might sound paranoid - that's what all my friends tell me. That might be true, but I'm confident DHS also attends these gatherings to collect data. And that data is used to create named lists, the ones you don't wanna be on.