The social media firms are the ones scraping the data.

They only add protections to make sure they get paid for it.

I dunno, I feel like this could have been solved with a pizza party and T-shirts for less money

/s

Perfect. Zero notes.

Social media should not be for kids.

Fucking eh!

If you spend 10 minutes looking into Dolly Parton, you’ll find a Fucking Angel.

Legitimately. Look into her reading program. Not just the news articles, but the written deals. She makes sure that if her program is a success, that the county is contracted to keep it going FOR-FUCKING-EVER. Her legacy is generations of kids who graduate high school because she sent them books.

And that’s just ONE thing she did, with a legacy that will outlast every one of us.

We ride at dawn.

Sometimes there are things a person chooses to do that are bigger than themselves.

He chose to allow himself to be a martyr. Hopefully it makes a difference, but it very likely may not.

Who knows, maybe his sacrifice paves the way for his successor.

It’s because they appear to be something they’re not.

They’re usually friendly and fun and do all sorts of employee retention activities like arranging go karting and such…

They seem like they’re there almost as union stewards, to try and help retain employees and ensure you’re treated well by management. This is not the case. They’re there to protect the company from lawsuits originated by you. This means that they’ll apply rules and such in ways that are not usually beneficial to you.

They’re actually really helpful if you have issues with a coworker! However, you need to remember that despite how friendly they seem, they’re not actually in your corner, they have their own agenda.

So the simple answer is that they aren’t bad at all, but it can feel bad if you thought they were your friend.

I literally came to the comments to find out if it was real or not.

Because quite frankly, I would probably believe either way .

We told these stupid employees that they had to do a 3 hour test in 1 hour or get fired and they started faking it.

No idea why.

Anyways, we fired these low level employees as an example because they broke our rules when we encouraged them to.

Don’t worry, the directors and execs that forced this scenario are safe and will continue to blame employees for the fuckups no matter HOW systemic they seem.

The system isn’t bad, Charles was bad.

We infected his personal items with the bubonic plague on the way out so that he can’t harm any more stock prices. I mean airplanes.

✈️ ✈️

The problem is the same as with the telephone answering trees.

If they’re used to help you get where you’re going, then they’re great. But that’s not the best financially motivated decision. Solving your problem costs the companies money. Pissing you off and convincing you that your problem shouldn’t be fixed saves money on support.

So making you go round in circles is the machine doing EXACTLY what they want it to do.

I mean that’s beautifully put…..

But unfortunately it’s simpler than that. It’s the story of a reasonable man that achieved beyond his dreams and then flipped sides because of money and status.

“Suddenly I have an opinion on the capital gains tax.” Type of stuff.

Sometimes the breed temperament has more to do with it than anything else….

But also assholes all seem to like the same breed so….

You’ve never made a silly mistake where you “can’t see the forest for the trees”?

It happens to the best of us

Everyone is blaming Netflix, but it’s not their fault.

It’s the fault of the content owners. Disney, fox, paramount etc…..

Rather than make a little money off of Netflix, they decided they could scam more money by launching their own competing service

I disagree. SpaceX is rumoured to have hired an “Elon babysitter” and Gwynne Shotwell seems to know what she’s doing.

But musk sucks.

The good news is that he’s so busy with Twitter and Tesla that he’s left spaceX alone.

I think Elon has become (or perhaps always was) an ass, but somehow he knows how to hire some pretty smart people.

As someone that uses ChatGPT daily for boilerplate code because it’s super helpful…

I call complete bullshite

The program here will be “hello world” or something like that.

But still a profit. Just not as much of profit as last year.

We are making money, but not as much money as I want. SMITHERS! Fire people randomly until I feel better about only making a few billion, instead of a hundred billion.

32 bit CPU’s having difficulty accessing greater than 4gb of memory was exclusively a windows problem.

Racism.

Really intense racism.

I don’t know, I can see the value in paying them more, give the gravity of what they deal with….

Otherwise they might be open to bribery 😝

Lisa!

In this house we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!!

They’re telling you that these “private” spaces are allowing for child exploitation because it triggers exactly the thoughts you’re having now.

“Oh I don’t want that, I guess I’ll give up my privacy”

It’s an excuse. Apple had client side image scanning, cutting through ALL privacy. The program basically found 0 child porn images, but instantly that it existed, governments wanted to use it to censor images they didn’t like.

It’s a lie, it always has been. “Won’t people please think of the children” has been used to create horrendous lies of policy since the beginning of time.

You know what existed before these services? The same evil that existed after them.

We can ban knives because a few people stab others with them, but ultimately if your goal is to stab someone, you’ll use what you have available. Perhaps a fork? And society will no longer have knives, but is that actually a reasonable answer? I mean there are no knives allowed in prisons, and they still make decent shanks .

Killing privacy to solve child exploitation is just a nice lie they sell you to convince you that your privacy doesn’t matter. Facebook has zero privacy and it’s currently the biggest distributor of child porn. It’s a huge problem, and clearly the lack of privacy didn’t solve it like they said it would.

Yeah but the mob around me watching me touch her breasts might not know that.

Continuous Mozilla hit pieces coming out….

I wonder which company motivated only by greed and the fact that their entire business model is “obliterating your privacy” is behind them

Someone is running a smear campaign on Firefox, and I don’t know why.

The tech doesn’t track you, it’s very clear on that but the misinformation about it keeps popping up everywhere.

Everyone’s up in arms about a literal anonymous counter, but the other option is the current “spy on everything you do”

How is Mozilla getting flak for this outside of a few hardcore nerds that are welcome to use chrome if they so desire…

And I say that as a huge privacy advocate. In the local tin foil hat “privacy matters” nerd and I honestly don’t see the problem.

And quite frankly anyone that’s said it’s a problem has only been able to come up with “it shouldn’t help them count your views “ which is ridiculous, because it’s very anonymous.

Sooo …. Help me out here, what’s the issue?

That’s the real answer. “We’re no longer a foreign asset funnelling Russian money to republicans so we’re broke”

They exist, they just aren’t popular because most people don’t care.

Sure, but that’s an environmental solution to what they see as an economical problem.

We need to rethink how economies work in a population shrink.

On Reddit, wallstreetbets used to call everything “retarded” and they’ve stopped and moved to “regarded” as a way of “almost” saying an offensive word.

It’s literally the same as the oligarchs that enabled Putin.

“We wanted a puppet, but it turns out he wanted power too “

Agreed, but the allure of fame and Facebook/YouTube made this behaviour worse.

Or at least gave the mom the tools to make it worse.

And also, the drone allows you to pick your target.

You don’t know who’s holding or near the walkie talkie.

I’m not for or against it, I don’t feel qualified to make a judgement, but I can see the differences.

It’s only a crime if YOU do it citizen.

Corporate law breaking is just a cost of business.

Now stay in line peon.

Whaaaaaat, they’re lying????

Okay I’ll bite….

I’m good with religious rights, but like ALL rights, they end when they attempt override the rights of others. What religious rights are you worried about losing?

So religious rights END the moment they suggest that someone shouldn’t exist or is somehow immoral. Glass houses and all.

You can practice your religion all you’d like, and I’ll practice mine, but the second you start “protesting pride” or something insane like that, you’ve crossed the foul line.

I don’t show up at your Sunday services to protest the existence of the Catholic church for the same reason (or mosques, temples etc…)

So! If your religion is against abortion, that’s fine, don’t get one! But your religion shouldn’t dictate what I can do, that’s over the foul line.

Even people sometimes just wake up day and snap for reasons beyond our control.

Now you’re generally right, most of these cases there’s some meaningful details missing and the “no history of attacks” is a lie.

We just can’t broadly apply that because we don’t know which one isn’t a lie.

The more I think about trump saying that he could shoot someone in broad daylight in front of millions, and not lose a single supporter….. the more I think he was right.

We are all too easy to manipulate.

The more data they have on us, the easier it is.

Sure but you also haven’t lost any of the power that wasn’t generated by them being dead/broken

A lot of that control is about perceived obedience and perceived productivity.

In many areas you’ll find that ACTUAL productivity matters far less than perceived productivity.

And it’s easier to perceived productivity when you can walk a floor and see people work as you walk by.