Just got back from asking them. They said they like cash moneys and don’t like blasting themselves.

Ultimately any economical and Political system will struggle with this. Capitalism can work if you have a taxation and redistribution of the wealth. Otherwise all wealth eventually congregates like mass in a black hole. Simultaneously you can have a system that might have fairer basic ideals but ends up just as corrupt. See the various attempts at communism.

The tricky part is the vigilance. Imagine a Musk raising his arm for a hearty ‘sieg heil’ in 1945-80. Now he got away with it. Generations forget. Safeguards get erroded away over time as the greedy goblins hammer away at them like woodpeckers.

The loaded gun is always there. The dangerous men always try to get to it. We gotta guard it 24/7. Not an easy task.

Posts like this are like a mechanic saying “There is no reason for a manufacturer to force drivers into having a catalytic converter in their own engine”

It’s more along the lines of “There’s no reason for manufacturers to forbid my mechanic from installing a perfectly fine catalytic converter just because said manufacturer doesn’t like it”

Giving manufacturers full control over the software users run will not end well. Why should google tolerate a browser that runs an adblock extension? Currently they do so because the alternative would be losing users to alternatives but if they have all android devices under control and make deals with most of the browser devs (it’s all chromium already and firefox is almost entirely financed by google) then you’ll find yourself forced to watch ads. This is what they’re slowly creeping towards.

No they don’t because they blast it on inflated exec wages.

Wouldn’t even be surprised if vietnamese use scientific methods to test the authenticity of the rhino horn in a lab to then proceed and ignore all scientific evidence that it doesn’t do shit to treat their hangover.

Strangely worded. “Tariff fears” sounds like something uncertain but the tariffs are in effect. They have to pay 15% tariffs right now so they’ll pass part of that on. The 50$ increase doesn’t even cover it.

It must be good though, otherwise TikTok would face mayor backlash if the platform shows more illegal content.

surely

It’s phrased so weirdly. Like he can’t afford a car anymore as a measly millionaire.

I used to play WoW 5v5 arena competitively in 2007. This was way before they went hard on e-sports so it’s not really comparable to today. Just to give you some perspective, the winning team at blizzcon got $25k which meant $5k each which (again, only in case of winning the world championship) would’ve just so covered my travel costs.

Honestly it was terrible. At first I used to play for fun and only accidentally ended up in a top team. Then my team got way too ambitious and it became more of a chore. I told them early on that I had no interest in playing like that but they couldn’t find a replacement so I kept playing with them until I was fully burned out. It was nice being good at something but it ruined the fun of it.

arrive at your hotel in north korea. the facade falls over and reveals a rock mine. turn around to get to the closest airport. it’s also a rock mine. blyat.

It’s usually nonsense. I remember some carbon offsets being a guy owning a forest and essentially selling his inaction as a carbon offset. Give me a million dollars so I don’t chop all those trees down which I totally would’ve done otherwise. It’s just pushing numbers around on a spreadsheet.

In this case I can imagine their calculations being wildly off. How much CO2/methane does a ton of poop actually release? How much CO2 is released to transport that ton and build the facilities that hold it?

Microsoft burying the steaming pile of poop that is teams will be enough to “offset” all their data centers.

It’s not just the left bar but also the entitlement of the others. Recently we had a reduction of parking spots at our workplace. The remaining ones are no longer free but cost a hefty price.

One of my coworkers send an email to all employees with a long rant about this. He said if they’d do this he’d be forced to ride to work on his horse. So this guy has a big ranch outside the city with horses simply as his hobby and he’s upset about having to pay for the space his truck is taking because he considers all of those things his right.

He’s there when you really don’t want him to be but when you want him he’ll be lying in his own vomit on that burger king parking lot.

Step 1: Feed the rich with fancy vertically farmed strawberries till they’re fat and juicy

Step 2: eat the rich.

It’s a simple plan. It’s a good plan.

But the donations are only necessary because of inflated salaries. It’s like saying we have to pay this pastry chef because the pastry chef loves to eat their own cake. They’re just feeding themselves.

The cost of server infrastructure is comparatively tiny so if they’d run it lean it’d have enough cash to last ages already. Also posting a banner on their site with massive reach isn’t exactly rocket surgery.

I know there are worse things but I strongly dislike nonprofits wasting donation money.

on the one hand they make some valid points on the other hand it’s a little disgusting how much wikipedia execs get payed and how sweaty they get when they worry about having to pay content moderators. currently they just pocket most of the donations they get but with increased running costs that would get harder.

don’t get me wrong, wikipedia is an important project and they deserve fair compensation but grabbing $700k per year for managing it seems a bit steep eh? it’s not like they’re forging new business strategies and conquering markets. they have a very simple concept and just keep it running. a post it note on the ceo door with “keep going lads” on it might outperform them and save some money.

Keep seeing teachers saying that kids in school can’t read anymore so this seems unnecessary.

If you look a bit closer you’ll see so much AI slop on reddit these days that it’s hard to use. It boggles my noggle that the most obvious AI generated engagement bait gets posted on places like AITA including the classic Chad Jippity dashes and people engage with it.

Chatgpt, pretend you’re an abused woman. Your husband has cut you open and is currently wearing your intestines as a necklace but you’re not sure if you’re overreacting so you ask online. Put all the reddit karma in a bag once you’re done.

Fuck that shit.

He’s hallucinating some nonsense and AI is hallucinating him some sources for it. The new gold standard.