This comment really feels like a reply to something. Taking sarcastic comments out of context to paint a person badly doesn’t feel good.
Edit: Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/11541457
Turns out, that they are indeed, a piece of shit.
The same as what happened when vine shut down.
Take their follows as best as they can to another platform. Continue on.
I kind of hope gaben has set up something smart for his death. Eg Valve is owned by a trust.
It depends on how bright it is where you are.
When it’s very very dim your color sensing part of your eyes, which are less sensitive to light, don’t work. Only the black and white parts of your vision work.
Kind of.
As a general rule, the amount of exploitation and fraud it takes to “become” a billionaire should probably be illegal.
Lying about what you do with peoples data and who you share it with.
Sentencing and punishment are affected by “caste”
The US won’t. The EU probably will.
so, we’ve moved from “ots not real” through past “maybe its real, but its not.human caused” all the way to “its real and we can’t do anything about it”/“its too late to do anything about ot”
I’ll do my best to explain what I can. But it’s hard, and many PHD dissertations will be written on this. It’s not exactly something that can just be explained.
But yes, Covid was probably the most easily identifiable source. In addition, you could make a claim that Putins’ moves, the support from Russia to for various “alt-right” groups, and their eventual war in Ukraine (assumedly, aiming for culmination in reuniting the Soviet Union) have an impact. Lastly, we have various AI projects reading “maturity” (or at least public notoriety), and various services realizing they were missing out on a piece of the “AI pie”.
Covid was… bad. It’s a new, deadly disease that potentially leaves people with life altering side effecs (long covid). The Vaccines are good, if not great even for having been developed so quickly and drastically change your likely outcomes, but they aren’t full immunity (like we have for Polio). This left governments in a dammed now if you don’t support people, or damned later if you do. They all chose various levels of later. Some governments supported businesses directly and left people alone to suffer, others supported people and left businesses mostly alone. Either way: Cash injections into an economy produces inflation.
Fighting inflation… the most commonly accepted method in the western world is to raise interest rates* and then let it play out. With the loss of cheap money from low interest rates, many businesses are now being pushed by their owners and shareholders from focusing on growth to make profits (eg: Raise prices, crack downs on password sharing, API use).
There are other claims you could make, and construct narratives with. For a few years now companies have been growing by expanding into growing countries, but now the number of countries left is short, and companies are running out of places to expand into to grow. Once again, as growth becomes impossible or undesirable, the focus shifts to extracting profit from your existing base. We are reaching maximum saturation.
*Alternatives: If you would like to slash government spending… see Argentina’s inflation (it’s bad), for windfall taxes see Spain (it’s good).
But they want you to use their app.
And they’ve decided if you have a HA plugin, you won’t.
So we do our research, and avoid scumbag companies when making purchasing decisions, or more likely, pick the lesser of a several evils.
This is ridiculous. It is truly ridiculous. How can something that enables the user to efficiently control their AC cause “significant economic harm”???
I assume they have their own app and run ads/user analytics through it that make them money.
I have to wonder if you bought their products on the basis that they worked with HA, if you could have some sort of claim here.
If Facebook hasn’t had a mas exodus, neither will Reddit.
Facebooks death is slow and ongoing, and I’m pretty sure Reddit’s will be too.
Ding ding ding. We have a winner.
He sold the shares, why should Tesla reimburse him for his folly? If he wants to have those shares back, he can rebuy them on the open market, just like anybody else would do.
I believe in order for that to work, the shares have to be set up for that during IPO. I’m not sure of any company that’s done it mid-flight (but I could be wrong).
It’s on purpose.
You spend longer IN Google, so you see more Google ads, on a Google platform, so Google gets a bigger cut of the pie.
It’s the same reason Google started summarizing Wikipedia (or other highly rated results) on its search results where possible. Why they built basic functionality (timers etc) into their search engine.
This year, my partner and I traded our large “traditional” vacuum for a robot + cordless stick vacuum.
Honestly, a great decision. Robot vacuum runs once a weekday, house has never been cleaner. Anything it doesn’t get, we can quickly grab the cordless for.
To dislike the feature is one thing, to not understand why ithers valued it is a whole pther ball game of ignorance
Ehhhh
Signal lost a lot of my love when they removed SMS support
Brave seems like a superb option.
Opera seems like a reasonable option, I guess, but I’m not sure if it has the market share to actually be seen and controversial if there was something to be controversial about.
Lost me at ‘Why do they need to be “rooted out”?’.
Welp, they’re a piece of shit.