circuitfarmer

This is one effect of a general lack of real consequences for corporations and those that run them.

The company has already determined their likely fine after being caught doing something egregious. The profit from being early to market is significant, and so long as it is considerably higher than the likely fine, they go for it. The expected real earnings are the difference between the profit and the fine. It’s all made worse since so often the fine is absolutely nothing compared to the profit, since the numbers these companies are dealing with are so damn big.

This is why you won’t see real change until we stop slapping corporations with fines and start slapping executives with jail time. That is literally the only way to break the cycle.

And the really shocking thing is how easy that was to normalize.

Talk about random thing at dinner, phone in pocket.

Post dinner, hit up Insta and boom, ad for random thing… and at that point, some people go “heh” and keep scrolling. Some likely think it’s “the algorithm” being magical and just using other context cues to guess that they would have mentioned it at dinner. Many have realized that, in fact, the devices you pay for and subscribe to are actively spying on you. Constantly.

And yet, the number of people who have opted out of using these devices and services is relatively minimum. There is a good reason for that: many of these services are so ubiquitous, they look and feel like utilities. And in some cases, they effectively are, as it can be impossible to use another service without a smartphone.

Hell, I can’t even pay my damn rent without using some stupid app.

Something tells me Vance is more qualified for sofa covering than health coverage

Sounds like they want a round of layoffs but don’t want to pay severance.

On a day when JD Vance effectively admitted to another fabrication, as well.

This not only screams BS but makes me question other similar events which seemed to have perfect timing and a nice photo op.

I’ve seen this one. This is the one where a bunch of Republicans are like “I’m a never Trumper” and then a month later they’re all on the floor kissing his feet.

Good thing he gutted Twitter’s content moderation teams in the name of “free speech”, eh?

If I had a dollar for every time a billionaire loses more money than I could ever dream of because their hubris got in the way or they misunderstood a concept or were just plain dumb – well, I guess I’d be a billionaire too.

How in the hell have the worst among us consistently been put into positions of power? These folks are an embarrassment to the country.

This is disturbingly accurate.

Welp, we’ve already seen plenty from these folks about how they would “lead”. No thanks.

Can you imagine how incredibly different things would be right now had Biden stayed in the race?

While I’d love to see Kamala wipe the floor with him again, I don’t think another debate is necessary. At this point Trump’s supporters are conditioned to just believe anything he says regardless of accuracy. Not a great idea to give dude more of a platform than he already has.

For me, the number one reason to want another debate is just to give him more chances to out himself as an absolute buffoon.

That plus a massive amount of inherent isolationism plus an extreme birth shortage and an already very aged population.

The writing is on the wall in many ways unless major, unprecedented changes were to be made. Japan in a hundred years will be unrecognizable without them.

I seem to recall 2 or maybe 3 comments he made during the most recent debate which either directly complimented Putin or threatened the US on Putin’s behalf (one had to do with Russian nukes but I don’t remember the exact quote).

The point is, the fact that he’s arguably talking up a foreign power in a US presidential debate is absolutely insane.

I don’t see YT being replaced in that sense any time soon. Federated text and image content is really still in infancy, and video hosting at the size of YT is a tremendously more complex feat, requiring, at the absolute minimum: a metric crapton of bandwidth and storage.

For me, I just use invidious and similar for the foreseeable future, or peertube when there are things on it.

At the very least, not being signed in to YT and having only a local watch history and subscriptions (=not on a YT or Google account) does starve the algorithm a bit.

And he never corrected himself. Kind of strange, but I guess time is at a premium.

This is a good idea and not something I’ve seen yet… If I get some time later maybe I’ll post one.

Hopefully at least the sofa wears protection. Don’t want stains.

These kinds of things will ramp up as we get closer to the election. An entire constituency of the USA is 100% convinced that any loss must mean a stolen election. This is uncharted territory, even compared to 2020.

Vance needs to get a nice sofa in a secluded spot and let this whole thing blow over.