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- Comment on Tax pubs on profit not property value, urges Greene King boss 9 hours ago:
Right, and part of the problem is these hawks (the kind who own 2400 pubs) would then fly in with that much more VC$ and scoop up 5x that amount of something like this passed. I’m all for the idea, but big companies don’t get little guy breaks, they can play with the adults and take the loss.
- Comment on Indeed, Glassdoor to cut 1,300 jobs amid AI integration, memo shows 3 days ago:
Both companies are owned by a large Japanese conglomerate. They got lucky with indeed, and have used little of its unbelievable market share to solidify it’s position and improve the product. Indeed, properly managed, would print money and go parabolic as a stock. Instead it’s just sat there because both sites suck and exist on inertia.
- Comment on Palantir accuses British doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row 5 days ago:
Right. Off.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 week ago:
You’ve actually lost your citizenship for that Thoughtcrime. Have fun in El Salvador. -people who will only stop when met with violent force
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 1 week ago:
Change your luggage combo too.
- Comment on Canada Drops Digital Tax That Infuriated Trump to Restart Trade Talks 2 weeks ago:
And by infuriated trump, they mean infuriated his election box funder attendees Bezos, Cool, Pichai. Of course I could be way off and it may be an innocent coincidence…🤑
- Comment on Remember the car jacking scene in Terminator 3? 2 weeks ago:
Install the latest update and hope for the best.
The addiction is also the cure.
- Comment on Democrats assail 'erratic' Trump over Iran strikes 3 weeks ago:
“bristled”
“A pipe cleaning analogy, that’ll show 'em were serious this time!”
- Comment on Usually the word "alternative" should be replaced with the word "bullshit". Ex: alternative facts, alternative medicine 3 weeks ago:
Came here to make the Minchin comparison.
- Comment on Teachers Are Not OK 3 weeks ago:
the banks are going to have to get involved soon…figure out a way to load up working-age people with long-term debt
Why the hell do the banks need to step in? System for an indentured workforce is already in full effect -no safety net, unemployment difficult to get and punishing poverty if it’s all you have -require a car (e.g. initial capital and ongoing cost) to participate in many jobs -have oligopolies rent out housing that is so expensive even those with full-time work can’t save any money -have oligopolies own groceries, Jack up prices -have oligopolies own medical facilities -stuff people full of consumer desires and give them easy access to credit
- Comment on Credit and Tipping during the period of Slavery in the US 3 weeks ago:
Buying goods from an on-site store was called “sharecropping” in the US post slavery, but as you noted it had binding and entrapping effects, as designed. Sharecropping was basically feudalism; forced to work land you didn’t own hoping for a benevolent lord to grant you sustenance–but prices were always raised enough to keep you in debt interestingly…
- Comment on What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw? 3 weeks ago:
Cholera bacteria wouldn’t survive in plasma, yo.
- Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You 3 weeks ago:
Be quiet!
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 1 month ago:
Intuit about to hire a “private Security company”
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 1 month ago:
Your brevity is perfectly cromulent.
- Comment on TED launches a short-form (TikTok like) video feature. 1 month ago:
Totally lost their way as they commodified and expanded so quickly. Truly great, unique insights are worth keeping small and waiting for. All the ted x and mini Ted x and micro teds etc. just water the brand and impact down.
I went to one in 2015 and cried, multiple times. By 2020 I couldn’t even stand to watch them online as everyone was trying to give the next great Ted talk instead of Ted picking the most impactful. They also got into echo chamber/preaching to the choir territory as it became too rote.
- Comment on ‘It’s real y’all’: People are sharing their tariff receipts, and my wallet is not ready for what’s coming 1 month ago:
Where are all the “do my own research” mofos now? Would be nice if they did that and learned about economics…
- Comment on 30% of South Korean schools have adopted AI-powered digital textbooks since the country's education ministry began a full-scale rollout in March 2025 1 month ago:
I’d say given the current tech environment that book would “educate” based more on a Brave New World caste and less on ideal knowledge to raise someone up but to keep them in a certain assigned position.
- Comment on Trump tells Walmart to 'eat the tariffs' instead of raising prices 1 month ago:
See: “free market” enthusiast Donald trump
- Comment on In reversal, Gavin Newsom proposes cutting back on health care benefits for undocumented immigrants 1 month ago:
Do you remember when he was caught at the swanky French Laundry during COVID restrictions, like October 2020 peak deaths in the US meeting with a political advisor while telling his state to adhere to lockdown?
Britain had their chief of national health or some equivalent of that be caught doing something similar and she was sacked.
Americans have been conditioned into not accepting or expecting accountability. It’s the root of much of the rot.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
Well no, just the largest ones who can pay some fine or have nearly endless legal funds to discourage challenges to their practice, this bring a form of a pretend business moat. The average company won’t be able to and will get shredded.
- Comment on 🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥 2 months ago:
Thank you for sharing. I feel like this is the first fediverse exploration I’ve had the energy for since coming over in the Reddit exodus.
Can someone explain how this can/would work for a Lemmy user? They talk about federation, would that be just within this bonfire platform where anyone can put a website and social media to connect via their goals and aims and structure or could this connect to Lemmy somehow, or would that require an integration between bonfire and Lemmy? How would instances of bonfire decide whether to connect or federate with Lemmy or vice versa?
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 2 months ago:
While also completely missing the boat on the potential of graphics cards and watching Nvidia and even AMD become massively more relevant in recent years.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 2 months ago:
And then, to bring us full circle to OP, Microsoft made it’s strategic acquisition of Nokia 😂 theverge.com/…/microsoft-nokia-acquisition-costs
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 2 months ago:
Hey, RIM/Blackberry’s CEO went to mobile world Congress in 2010, 3 solid YEARS after the iPhone launched, was dominating and defining the smartphone world and said, “we feel touchscreen is not the future of mobile phones” and rolled out another hybrid touch/keyboard model like the 5 they already had
Blackberry was $150/share as of 2009 with the entire world in front of it. It’s now worth $3.59/share.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 2 months ago:
Teams(s)
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 2 months ago:
- Comment on Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist 2 months ago:
Yeah, that at least can be systematically identified and corrected; the bias and also inaccuracy of judgement of current human officers seems far worse and when combined with the fact non-vehicular safety is seen as a low priority or completely ignored, getting to “good” for safety of non-vehicular traffic is life and death. A few tickets that get waived, or in my city, Portland Oregon, a citizen sued to prove the cameras inaccurate where they were and won vs. engineers, is a small price to pay vs. the current state of zero enforcement and bodies littering crosswalks and cyclists mown down in “bike lanes”.
- Comment on Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist 2 months ago:
Right; I’m considering requesting cameras in my city to protect crosswalks, pedestrians and cyclists as none of the laws are currently enforced in any meaningful way. One of the most cost-reasonable, effective ways to do that would be to have automatic cameras but the lecherous vendors that want 20-30% of the cut and authoritarian state are two massive concerns I have that make me, at the cost of my own daily safety, hesitant to call this stuff out.
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 2 months ago:
Just like the IRS, these are strategically deranged/under-funded and understaffed by conservatives and their oligarchy backers. 99% of trump voters if you asked them if they want to be physically protected in their workplace would say they want their company regulated by an enforcement body, but if you ask them if they like big government, their brainwashing will say no.
Democrats are deliberately bad at branding because they’re beholden to oligarchs as well. Progressives, who badly want to fight for these common sense things have been squeezed out due to concentration of election power, e.g. communication, into a money war and oligarchs choose winners .