A slap on the wrist for two of the tech giants is great progress. I would consider this a start, but not done yet.

The linked article supports this as well:

Tove Maria Ryding from the European Network on Debt and Development, an association of trade unions and non-governmental organisations, welcomed the ECJ’s decision but stressed “our tax problem is more than just one rotten apple”.

She said the case addressed tax matters dating back over 20 years and was “a perfect illustration of the chaotic corporate tax system we have”.

“What we urgently need is a fundamental reform that can give us a tax system that is fair, effective, transparent and predictable," she said.

PDFxchange is hands down the best PDF UI I’ve used. I switched from Acrobat a year ago expecting to be disappointed, but haven’t had any issues. The ability to customize almost everything about the software was what sold me and I’ll never be able to go back to the horrible experience of Acrobat.

This was me too. I probably listened through the “Blueprint for Armageddon” series three times. Never really found any other history podcast that piqued my interest nearly as much as that did.

Same, expectations are definitely in check, but cool none the less! I feel like there are a lot of hiccups here that would need to be smoothed out before this would become anything remotely feasible.

Yep, this was pretty much my exact reaction as well. I haven’t really dug into it since, but it was an interesting twist on fusion that would be sweet if it made some progress!

I know this is probably tongue in cheek, but I genuinely thought the same until recently. There’s a company called Helion which is developing a really cool fusion process that doesn’t use steam as an energy transfer mechanism. Obviously it has its own set of drawbacks and roadblocks, but still really cool tech in the making.

Here’s the video I saw going into detail on it if anyone’s interested:

https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38?si=iBpHfDxhRgHHRtN2