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You don’t smoke ketamine. And it definitely would not be responsible for the type of behavior he exhibits.
That’s just called “extreme avarice,” and “sociopathy.”
You don’t smoke ketamine. And it definitely would not be responsible for the type of behavior he exhibits.
That’s just called “extreme avarice,” and “sociopathy.”
Right, they will do a cost/benefit analysis to see if the amount of traffic and engagement that they lost cost more or less than what they made or saved by forcing log in.
Also… Quora just seems fucking wild
Everyday Twitter erodes its worth for short-term wealth.
This is, and will always be, the main push of capitalism. This isn’t some cute new term like “enshittification” or something, this is just good ol fashion rent seeking and it’s capitalism working as intended.
Capitalism has robbed us of more than we could ever even imagine. To the point where most people don’t even realize they’ve been robbed. It’s tragic.
We live in a society where amoral, faceless corporations are more valued than actual human life. And those corporations have so much power over people, and their cognition, that the majority have been tricked into consenting to this perverted system against all of their interests. And I would love for someone to explain to me why there should ever be a distinction between the people producing something, and the people/corporations that own the means of that production. Why should these be two different groups, and why in the FUCK would the class that doesn’t do any actual goddamn work, make 300x more money? It’s fucking disgusting.
But on the other hand, they said they were going to lower taxes. And also, trans people exist, so…
This is the most lukewarm, wishy washy, “enlightened centrist” shit I have ever read. Like,
So its a long attrition based slug war which can only be fought when we love our fellow Americans and stop listening to hate everywhere around us.
???
What are you fucking talking about? This is some next level naivety.
These people are incapable of not being disingenuous. They’re allergic to good faith. The hypocrisy has become so ingrained in these people that calling it out hasn’t been an effective counter to them for years, if not decades. They simply do not care.
Was bound to happen when average people started creating cults of personality around billionaires.
This is my thought exactly. As it becomes easier and easier to use these sites, with apps and everything, we will start to see more crazy and stupid conservatives.
They’re too stupid to figure it out at the moment. Most of them at least. And the ones who aren’t, are the ones who are aware that they’re ideology is trash, but they are using it for financial and/or tax reasons.
Nah, horseshoe theory is bullshit. Militant far left, and militant far right are shitty for very different reasons.
I don’t really understand reddit’s angle here… Why would they provide zero cost API access to an app, as long as the developer of the app isn’t making a profit? Are they trying to act like that was the issue they had with these third party apps? That they e profitable?
How does it make sense for them to allow an app for that reason?
And who are they going to have take over mod responsibilities (for free) in all of these communities at once? This is why mods need to call their bluff and force them to try to replace them.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I haven’t been back to reddit since the blackouts started. No desire to.
“Landed gentry”… Because that’s what I think about when I think about unpaid employees.
Yeah, Tunic on Switch is rough…
Can we stop trying to coin cute terms like “enshittification”? What that term describes is just capitalism working as intended.
There is a term that describes this behavior that we’ve been using for at least decades (to describe behavior that has happened since the inception of capitalism): rent seeking.
You got paid, because it’s required by law that you do.
That’s not true. Maybe it varies from state to state, I dunno, but I live in an otherwise very blue state, and there’s no statute on the books saying that a private employer must pay for time missed for jury duty.
They are required to allow you to go if you’re summoned, but beyond that, it’s their choice. Obviously, most (if not all) choose not to.
Before they know it, they’ll find themselves in a sea of shit content and ads, and realize what they lost.
I’m sure they’re watching the reddit situation very closely.