In my personal (and therefore, limited) experience, engagement is much harder to get in the fediverse. I hope it improves, but it’s not easy to find people you don’t know in order to follow them, and vice versa.

In my lifetime we’ve gone from ‘there’s no water on Mars’ to ‘there’s tons of water all over the equator, evaporating into the atmosphere daily then freezing on the surface at night’. Which is pretty cool.

The article mentions fighting hidden fees,which is good, but they really need to address TicketMaster’s monopoly in the process.

If someone is reading the National Enquirer and thinks it’s actual news, they are already an idiot and nothing revealed in this trial is going to smarten them up.
In the 80s, the National Enquirer had a ‘seance’ to ask the ghost of Marilyn Monroe if someone had murdered her and who the murderer was. They then reported this as if it wad an actual source and named Bobby Kennedy the killer. It’s not like this is a real news source in any way, and it never has been.

“What should we include when we build our humanoid robot?”

“It should stand up in the most unnerving way possible.”

I can only go by the actual numbers I’ve seen, and it seems like most articles are cherry picking, at least so far. Saying ‘popularity is soaring’ isn’t the same as hard numbers.

For example, the NBA could claim their popularity is soaring during the NBA Finals, but their actual numbers are dwarfed the the Super Bowl. A lot of this is spin. But if the WNBA numbers actually do increase, then sure, more money would be coming.

It may go down in the WNBA. Caitlin Clark isn’t the first player who was expected to make the WNBA popular (Maya Moore, Brittany Griner, etc). It’s far too early to tell if she will have any impact on WNBA viewership.

The issue is that NIL money is also a way for boosters to pay players to stay instead of the shadowy back door deals that used to happen. Now NIL just allows boosters to pay players through a legitimate channel.

The article says the women’s college tournament ‘dwarfed the men’s tournament’, but the ratings numbers I’ve seen show the men’s tournament has had 5x the viewership. So someone’s not doing their research. Plus, this is college, not the pros. If the WNBA viewership increases, then,yes, more revenue should come with the next media contract. But that remains to be seen.

Layoffs are always, always, always a sign of an unhealthy company, regardless of how Wall Steet reacts.

I wasn’t aware RFK Jr was even still running.

I heard about the Aaron Roger’s thing but honestly at this point, RFK Jr isn’t a blip on the radar. He’d have to work his way up to blip.

The 21,000+ US border agents must love hearing every day that they don’t exist and aren’t aware of massive armies of people streaming across the border. They must be invisible!

Facts never matter, people who have never even been 100 miles of the border just make up wild stories and claim them as truth.

“Why make our food better when we could just charge more?”

Hiring devs with degrees does not guarantee anything quality about the software they write.

This won’t end well.

It’s only not profitable because the CEO and CFO are taking such massive salaries, $193M and $93M, respectively.

They took $286M and the company lost $90M. They could take $90M less - still taking almost $200M - and Reddit would be profitable. That alone should tell investors that this is a bad investment.

Despite what Wall Street thinks, layoffs are almost always the sign of a poorly run company, especially when they do it multiple years in a row, and really especially when they do it during good economic years.

Data from the last 40 years, when layoffs started becoming commonplace, show that companies who lay off in multiple years, especially at the end of the year, see two things happen: their stock price goes up, and they are out of business within 10 years after starting the practice.

These numbers are just averages, but play the odds if you invest in stocks: don’t buy stocks of companies that lay people off, just as you wouldn’t bet on an NFL team that fires its coach every other year.

Just like his magic ‘215’ weight. That dude is easily over 300 pounds.

I cancelled last year after watching Stranger Things. It was literally the only show I’d watched on Netflix in over two years. I’d been paying for a service I wasn’t even using, and even though nobody was sharing a password for my account, the price hikes and sudden change of password policy were enough for me to stop paying them. Obviously I haven’t missed it, since I wasn’t watching it, but I may not have cancelled if not for the price going up each year.

If Jamie Dimon says it, it’s worthless and he’s invested in something that he hopes he can sway opinion into a payoff.

This guy has been wrong so many times he’s clear proof you can be an idiot and still stay rich.

‘Rare form of pnuemonia’ -> it’s COVID and she’s unvaccinated.