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One way to identify if something is a fad or bubble is if the hypers and the doomers are actually the same people.
Neither are actually talking about the thing.
The hypers ceaselessly tell you that you will look bad if you don’t use the thing.
The doomers spin tales on how it will end your way of life or worse.
They both work to keep the thing in your mind while never actually talking about the thing, in an endless parade of manipulating your emotions.

Ritter Sport muss Niederlage im Verpackungsstreit einstecken
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/ritter-sport-vs-wacker-schokoladenhersteller-unterliegt-im-verpackungsstre…

Disput zwischen Schokoladenherstellern: Ritter Sport muss Niederlage im Verpackungsstreit einstecken
Die Firma Wacker stellt Haferriegel her. Die Snacks erinnern in ihrer Form an Ritter Sport – wogegen der Schokohersteller gerichtlich vorgegangen ist und unterlag. Zuvor hatte sich der Beklagte einen Seitenhieb erlaubt.

Lightning talks will start soon at 1600 at Jansen. Come and see the most fun part of #FOSDEM
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CNPVJL-lightning_lightning_talks_1/

FOSDEM 2026 - Lightning lightning talks 1

The article below reminds me of a play that I crewed on:
In the play the Earth is taken over by space aliens who eat people. Earth people don't like this. The aliens try to fix things by hiring a PR firm to improve their public image. But the PR firm turns out to be a front for Earth-people resistance. And it went from there.
So here we have a couple of brothers - who have so much hubris that they are effectively space aliens in relation to the rest of us - who do bad things…

Brothers Charged With Sex Trafficking Wage Campaign to Shame Accusers
The Alexander brothers, once titans of the New York party scene, have retained a high-stakes public relations strategist, Juda Engelmayer, whose clients include Harvey Weinstein.

'Manchester is unaffordable for ordinary Mancs - but it's too late to turn back' -
Yes, surprise, surprise, it's the growth model.
And it isn't so much a question of turning back as choosing another course, as we've argued throughout the hypergrowth period in GM.
Manchester Evening News

'Manchester is unaffordable for ordinary Mancs - but it's too late to turn back'
In his new book, Charlie Winstanley, a former political advisor in Greater Manchester, explains where he thinks it all went wrong

#DanielQuinn as Turner, the hypercompetitive lifeguard
Season 2 Episode 9 "The Trophy: part 1"
#Baywatch #sun