Arrest warrants and indictments are both early steps in charging someone with a crime, but that doesn't mean one is just the logical next step.

There's a lot of reasons you can get an arrest warrant for someone. You can get a warrant because they're one of several suspects, and a flight risk. Or because you have reason to believe they have information about the case, even though you don't suspect them personally.

People don't really get how it actually works.

Companies don't pay politicians to change their beliefs, they find politicians who already agree with them and donate to their campaigns to get them elected.

So these congress people who voted with ticketmaster, they weren't bribed. They voted their conscience. It's just, companies like ticketmaster have spent decades elevating politicians whose "conscience" is incredibly pro-business.

It's not about the price, at least not primarily. This will be the same trend as Microsoft pointed out during their earnings call:

During the pandemic lockdown, everyone who needed new hardware bought it. It was this massive global event where millions of home computers and consoles that were kinda alright because they didn't get used much suddenly got an upgrade.

This is just the opposite side of that trend. Machines that were slowing down in 2020 and early 2021 got replaced, and those are the machines that *would have" died in 2022.

I swear there's like a law that ever state needs to have a waterfall called Bridal Veil Falls.

Newton wasn't the first to think the Earth was pulling on the apple. He was the first to realize the apple was pulling on the Earth too.

Hiring freezes and layoffs actually end up being counter-productive to curbing bloat.

If you're a mid-level manager and you know that the company goes through cycles of hiring freezes or layoffs, does that incentivize you to run a lean organization where you only have the engineers you need? Of course not, because everyone is going to be asked to cut back.

Instead, you're incentivized to hire as many people as you can when you can, specifically so that the cut backs aren't as painful when they come. If you're overstaffed, you can weather a hiring freeze and you can afford to lose some to layoffs.

But everyone else is doing the same math, and so everyone tries to be overstaffed, so the company ends up massively overstaffed, which forces leadership into more hiring freezes and layoffs because those are the only tools they have.