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- Comment on Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to take over TikTok 3 days ago:
🤮
- Comment on Trump federally renames Alaska's Mt. Denali to mount mckinley, despite the objections from everyone who actually lives there 1 week ago:
The guy even gives the nouveau riche embarrassed with his desperate insecurity.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 3 weeks ago:
Patience with people trying to overthrow governments is not advised.
Ironically, An American
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 3 weeks ago:
They’re trying to ban tiktok. I’ve never used it but it’s just because it’s Chinese, social media from any other company based in any other country is just as fucked and unhealthy and unregulated in the US, but they are going to ban it specifically for its country of origin. China pills a lot of weight and the company tiktok is powerful and fighting it in court and all but it seems pretty obvious it’ll go through even under current admin watch–letbaloke when a direct competitor and owner of Xitter owns the White House.
While yes, you’re logistically correct it would be very difficult to shut down the whole Internet, that’s not the goal, the goal is to massively control it and enshittify it beyond your worst dreams.
Look to China and Russia for "internet"TM
- Comment on YSK: The US is currently giving away free COVID tests to all Americans 3 weeks ago:
Nah, I ordered in Oct and site said I’ve reached my limit. You are correct they add new limits every once in. While but they publicize poorly so it’s hard to remember.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 4 weeks ago:
Late 19th century. There was some pushback, some anti-trust laws with teeth, and then decades of bloody union battles to secure rights workers and their elected officials have thrown away for 50 years.
The concentration of wealth and influence of 10-16 people trumps that of hundreds of millions and is as bad or worse than it was during the robber baron era.
Political representatives are bought and paid for which means the poor have no voice against the wealthy.
We have a justice system that is incapable of prosecuting the wealthy and powerful, when it isn’t being stocked by ideologues.
Meritocracy is dead; Birth has much greater correlation to wealth and power.
Media is fully captured by the wealthy; they own the vast majority of media consumed: TV, film, news, social junk.
Nice country you got here.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 2 months ago:
You can’t triple stamp a double stamp.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 2 months ago:
Yeah, but what about the promotional and kick back opportunities lost? You have to think about profits…
- Comment on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moves to place Google under supervision 2 months ago:
Shirley it’s redundant when they have the blind US Justice system™ to hold all accountable equally
- Comment on USA | Fed chair says he will not resign even if pressured by Trump as interest rate cut 2 months ago:
So am I supposed to buy crypto then? Trumpcoins? ElonNickels?
- Comment on Spain seizes record 13 tonnes of cocaine in Ecuadorean banana shipment 2 months ago:
There is money in that banana stand for certain.
- Comment on The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems 2 months ago:
Realistically? Probably influenza or a pox after vaccines are outlawed or priced out of reach for enough of the species.
- Comment on A wind farm in Texas will help power Rivian's Adventure Network 2 months ago:
Wait I thought wind was the reason behind the power instability in Texas’s otherwise perfect, sufficient, competitive and independent power grid?
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 months ago:
You just need to buy the North America Animal Recognition AI subscription and this wouldn’t be an issue plebs, it will stop for 28 out of 139 mammals!
- Comment on Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers 2 months ago:
“the subscriber dashboard is no longer visible to employees”
Perfect, fixed the problem boss!
- Comment on Stolen credit cards up for grabs on Meta’s Threads. 2 months ago:
“Action? Yeah…they got 4 new detectives working on the case…they got us working in shifts! Action, ha.”
Would love to see the allocation of resources in the stupid company toward crime prevention vs. developing advertisement money funnels
- Comment on If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it. 2 months ago:
😂 that’s great
- Comment on If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it. 2 months ago:
I’m in HR and think about this a lot; it’s (mostly) a marker of poorly run companies when they say experience in software X is required. Mostly these pets are using one of several software solutions and by saying a candidate must have experience in a specific software means the company is brittle; can’t train, wants to hire non-thinkers and learners, and also likely isn’t looking ahead at what will change in the future.
Software change will only accelerate likely, so hire learners.
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 3 months ago:
Caught me completely by obvious
- Comment on The worst feeling of my life:My vacation is ending tomorrow 3 months ago:
Lol legally mandated vacation? Try living in America
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- Comment on GRIZZLODILE 3 months ago:
More like ape-ex amirite
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 3 months ago:
Here’s the VP of Reddit’s community cited in the article, Laura Nestler, preaching super engagement from a platforms most fanatical users to power content for the 90%.
She suggests, intrinsic motivators such as “autonomy”.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUMW6Ovf6o
She was at Yelp prior, which if you want to look at a steaming pile of a wasted company, man give reddit 5-10 years.
- Comment on What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu? 3 months ago:
Tim walz–level confession
- Comment on CNN will start locking some articles behind a paywall 3 months ago:
Hopefully the whole site!
- Comment on Blizzard Co-Founder Reveals True Reason For Departure 3 months ago:
Healthcare, education, transportation…it’s like the opposite of the Life of Brian scene about the Romans talking about what they brought areas they took control of.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 3 months ago:
We’re 5 years from someone proposing “smartwall displays” where the entire wall is your display. No more messy cables or creaky mounting brackets. They’ll, of course also have removed the on/off button and you won’t get to control the volume, but just think of the stimulation!
Fahrenheit 451’s technology just around the corner of the next shitty planned community coming soon near you.
- Comment on Calif. Governor vetoes bill requiring opt-out signals for sale of user data 4 months ago:
When he got caught breaking his state’s own Covid restrictions at French Laundry, the fanciest of wait list fancies in Napa wine country, it’s all you needed to know.
- Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween 4 months ago:
I would hope aliens, being intelligent, would communicate with other humans before they get to government representatives. We’d probably never hear from them again.
- Comment on MAGA World’s Belief In Their Made Up Claim That Biden Is ‘Censoring’ Conservatives On Social Media May Kill KOSA 4 months ago:
Broken clock blah blah