They used to say "give it 110%"

In that context, here is a little decades old joke about that.

If: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K

8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

and

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E

11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E

1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B-U-L-L- S-H-I-T

2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G

1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that while Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it’s the bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top!

Keep slamming and it'll be "pulverized"

One uses a feather, the other beats you with a frozen chicken, but both are the same because they're using poultry products.

On the other hand, some of them just refuse to do any overtime or aim for promotion. It won't get them any closer to their goals so why bother. It's quiet quitting by default.

That's what 2°C warming looks like. That part of Europe is warming faster than the rest of the world so they get a preview. It means this will be coming to the rest of the world in a few years.

Russia blinked first, so now the West can seize all Russian assets instead of keeping them frozen?

Or AI to rank and filter out the things you need based on public indexing. Preferably there'd be several AI assistants to choose from. Things seem to be moving in that direction anyway.

Meta tried to do the same. The EU response was to ask when they'd leave to plan the going away party. Meta was a lot less confrontational after that.

Fight a few wars over oil and nobody bats an eye. Mine cobalt in less than perfect conditions and everybody loses their mind.

There has to be a hard limit on the amount of CO2 that can be extracted, and let that limit go down each year. Then use permit auctions or carbon coins or whatever to determine who can extract, or import. It'll automatically make plastic and gasoline more expensive and alternatives cheaper in comparison.

Of course there'll be lot of "but the economy" and "our competiveness". If the last half century is anything to go by, economy wins. So that means fundamental chances to the economy. To the way money works, how loans use interests and drives growth before anything changes. For a lot of people that's almost physically impossible to even contemplate. Usually this changes as the current system deteriorates, but that can take a while.

Ah yes, the everything-falling-apart-app

telling us what it thinks we’d want

that's "it thinks we’d want to buy"

They've gone for the money and are now finding out that cannabalizing search stops customers coming to their site.