Doomsider
@Doomsider@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 5 days ago:
Companies grow and shrink from a combination of market and internal forces. Companies sometimes need to shrink or grow. The economy and culture are constantly changing. That is why it is very hard to predict where things will go.
Your example of having a company with a set amount of employees that produce a set product happens pretty frequently. A lot of employee owned or family businesses are this way.
I think most of you post can be summed up with why do investors want more and more money. The answer is because they can. If your company owes money to investors then they will beholden to them in one form or another.
There is another worthy discussion here and it is about boards. Boards that do not contain equal representation for the employees and the public can be very destructive.
Most of the corporate abuses we have suffered come from having perverse leadership non-representative of these two most important influences.
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 5 days ago:
You should turn in your company to the AI cartel. They should have known that restricting use was going to be a problem for the Tech Lords.
All companies belong to the Tech Lords now. Once they have eviscerated your management AI will once again flow freely into your workplace.
There is no future only AI.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It would have been even better to let them suffer the consequences of their decisions. I am not buying the whole threat to the economy nonsense. That is just propaganda used to convince us it was necessary.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
And then rest of us lose their jobs because the economy crashes. I am so glad our leaders can see this coming from miles away but will do absolutely nothing about it.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team 6 days ago:
Now that is what I call winning!
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 6 days ago:
Wrong! If I am using a hammer to deliver babies I expect hammer manufacturers to put a rubber coating on the claw so it doesn’t scratch the baby as I pry it out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You mean most Americans don’t care about White Cracker Barrel’s rebadging!?
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 1 week ago:
At this point everyone who has provided material support to project 2025 is a traitor. They should all be tried and jailed. Also, prevented from ever the having authority over other human beings for the rest of their miserable lives.
- Comment on Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US under Trump deal * It will become platform owned by different bastards 1 week ago:
I appreciate that you consider us on the same side. This often seems to be a sticking point and causes a lot of unnecessary postering.
While his comment might be considered to be a little flippant, I don’t take it as the insult you did. We will just have to disagree here.
We used to have laws against media consolidation but no law preventing the wealthy from controlling all media as long as it wasn’t all directly owned by the same entity. This isn’t than panacea you seem to think it is, although I do lament things like the end of the fairness doctrine from time to time.
I believe it should have been expanded to all media as opposed to be being abolished. Actually, I don’t even think it needs to be a law if we had a strong culture of considering all sides of the argument fairly. Of course, that is not the world we live in.
Another poster brought up the Internet and how it was not originally a mouthpiece for the wealthy. I remember back in the days of IRC and then blogging and I can attest to the downward trajectory discourse has taken. The rise of social media turned the Internet from a playground for techies into a propaganda machine for the oligarchy.
I didn’t mean to to insinuate you didn’t know all this already. I am just talking and I apologize if my word salad cones across as arrogant.
- Comment on Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US under Trump deal * It will become platform owned by different bastards 1 week ago:
He wasn’t being a dick, just pointing out that all mass media has always been owned by oligarchy. This isn’t consolidation of the media under right wing, that is nonsensical because it happened since the beginning of history.
You say study history? What about Edward Murrow’s warning during the Red Scare when the US disowned and kicked out all the leftist. Sound like what we are still dealing with.
Newspapers were always owned by the wealthy and acted as their mouthpiece since the inception of this country which was founded on violence and propaganda.
I do see your point though, but it is important to point out the truth lest we fall into propaganda traps like “independent media” or “left wing” media.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, just going to block you now.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
Hey, I know reading comprehension may not be your thing and this is certainly is not my fight. I will break it down one more time for clarity.
RFK claims it CAUSES Autism. He does not claim merely it increases the risk.
This meme stated quite logically that if it is the cause of Autism and Autism existed before the medication use was widespread, then clearly it does not cause Autism.
Obviously it does not cause Autism, in fact I doubt it is even a risk factor for it. This is pseudo science bullshit that is being used to sell made up “treatments”.
Frankly, people that are having a hard time with this are playing devil’s advocate, misinformed, or are MAHA.
So what part of this are you not “getting”
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
This is another dumb take. Cigarettes don’t cause cancer, they increase cancer risk.
RFK is claiming he knows the cause of Autism not something that can increases its risks.
The logic of this meme is sound.
- Comment on A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader. 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I like that!
- Comment on I'm very happy for her. In youth tightness can be a problem 2 weeks ago:
It’s one of those moving picture things from Harry Potter. I think it is buffering?
- Comment on A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader. 2 weeks ago:
This is a strange take. A natural leader is a leader without a title. They have they have the qualities needed to be a good leader. People gravitate to them because they have all the prerequisites and skills of leadership.
They lead people because of the relationship they have built without having to resort to institutional authority. This makes natural leaders better than a boss who is given a title sometimes without the attributes or even the skills of leadership.
Your take seems to be someone who is born a leader doesn’t necessarily have the skills. Like they are charismatic but don’t have good listening skills. These people are not natural leaders though. Natural leaders by definition posses the attributes and skills of leadership.
This is not saying every natural leaders has all the skills or attributes of leadership as that would be a ridiculous bar to expect. It really just feels like you could just say leadership is often confused with charisma.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 weeks ago:
Well damn, I got all kinds of old games that don’t work on newer Windows properly, I guess that means it is an OS failure for that use case.
I refuse to install intrusive anti-cheat in Windows, why would I install it Linux, if I even could.
- Comment on US | White House tries to tamp down corporate panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul 2 weeks ago:
This is all about the grift. It is just another way to force businesses to come groveling to this administration. More corruption and bribes will ensue with exceptions for those who play ball.
- Comment on US | White House tries to tamp down corporate panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul 2 weeks ago:
Is it not obvious this is just another shake down!?
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 2 weeks ago:
Oh look, it’s that one world government the conservatives always cried about.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 2 weeks ago:
I am pretty confident that mRNA vaccine research is going to lead to the cure for the common cold along with cancer, Parkinson’s, MS, etc.
We already have an effective AIDS vaccine now. We are getting really close to stopping a lot of human suffering. This is probably why the current administration is trying to pump the brakes.
- Comment on Hue hue hue 2 weeks ago:
Yes, of course.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 2 weeks ago:
It is ridiculous of course but I do have one strange anecdote about this. I have been in a lot of retirement and assisted living homes and there can be some serious tension between racist resident and their non-white caregivers when they speak there languages around them.
One old Vietnam vet would get the fuck triggered out of him when the Filipinos would talk in Tagalog around him. They ended up making a rule that they can’t speak non-english around him. Not saying that this was right, but it was understandable.
- Comment on Disney 2025 2 weeks ago:
Lol that was a good narrative wasn’t it? Fighting the good fight and all that. Too bad it wasn’t reality and Disney fell inline like every corporation.
- Comment on Hue hue hue 2 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what a sun denialist would say! You can’t trust nothing from Nasa.Too many woke scientists unlike the God fearing employees of SpaceX.
- Comment on Video: Israel shredded a Gazan child. "Never have I prayed for a child to die. Until today" said a doctor 3 weeks ago:
This shit has been happening the whole time carefully hidden from the public by monstrous government and corporate control. No words can describe how disgusting we are.
- Comment on Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession 3 weeks ago:
Strangely enough this is the exact same path addiction leads to.
- Comment on Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession 3 weeks ago:
For real, you should be confessing it to your preacher so they can use it to manipulate you.