My dad has been that guy! We sure ate a lottt of Silver Wok during that time 😋

Yeah if investors can’t make cartoonish returns for doing literally nothing what’s even the point of gouging customers??

I thought this instance was nice! That is weird

People will be laid off
Spoils will be enjoyed
This great economy… it will endure
The working class will survive!

Oh good point. What tool did you use to scrub your comments?

Probably for faster loading times when playing games on the hardware during off peak hours jk jk lol

I like it. I’m just waiting for someone to bring it up as a mark against our instance somehow

I think people miss an important point in these selloffs. It’s not just the raw text that’s valuable, but the minute interactions between networks of users people.

Like the timings between replies and how vote counts affect not just engagement, but the tone of replies, and their conversion rate.

I’ve could imagine a sort of “script” running for months, haunting your every move across the internet, constantly running personalised little a/b tests, until a tactic is found to part you from your money.

I mean this tech exists now, but it’s fairly “dumb.” But it’s not hard to see how AI will make it much more pernicious.

Man I’d be so mad if I’d built up a sweet severance, only to have to quit for better work

Fairphone looks really cool, but I feel like too big for my weak little hands

I’d probably just refurb an old old Android phone. Would love to buy hardware that is more ethically sourced though

I’m legitimately curious about their takes on this…

And yet you continue to order them

The connection is that they both require workers, but don’t want to pay them

And they’re sticking with that name? … huh

This is called the “network effect,” so called after the Murderbot novel of the same name (recommended). It’s what makes social medias, aggregators, and service platform so “sticky.” It’s what makes platform-capitalism work.

It also makes nice things work too, ofc.

Let’s do both! I welcome our imperfect solarpunk future with open arms

I mean I hadn’t seen this until now, so thank you

Probably the lighting. This one is a bit of a stretch

You would think so, but what it means is the dough is springy and resilient

It’s pizza dough stretched thin. Many people like it like this. It’s also a flex of how resilient the dough is.

I do it a bit. It’s called the window test