The first Helldivers, Plate Up!

It seemed like they never enforced it though

About time. This stuff has been cancer on YouTube for years.

I bet the CEO played Monopoly too. Ironic, isn’t it?

Trying to hype up investors, yes! It’s exactly why we keep seeing features that nobody wants in goods and services nowadays.

Capitalism is supposed to maximize efficiency and do everything it can to make the consumers happy. But we have reached a point where the “meta” isn’t that anymore. It really never was, really. But with corporations becoming so big they dominate world markets, it has become complety shameless about it.

That explains why Doom 3’s shading looked so bad

But that one wasn’t murderous! All they wanted is you to wake up in the middle of your surgery and charge you money to buy more minutes of anastasis. Perfectly a normal and moral way to make more money.

They’ve made $ 359 Billion dollars profit in 2023 alone, increasing their revenue threefold since 2010. 80% of their revenue is from insurance premiums so clearly they’re over-charging and/or not covering as many claims as they should on a HUGE scale. This is pure exploitation and abuse.

When you exploit your customers like that in health insurance, it not only ruins lives, but also kills people. They can make all the mental gymnastics as they want, but the actions they’ve taken to increase their profits are literally killing people.

With 53 million customers, the number of people whose lives were ruined or lost by this blatant scam is in the millions. It was only a matter of time they’d end up pissing off a vengeful enough person.

A minimum amount of karma is required to start threads in many communities. I used to be subscribed to a community that didn’t have automated bot detection or a very active moderator and was being hit by bots posting ads to scam merchandise websites multiple times a day. Here’s what I observed.

These posts had a few dozen quick upvotes over the first few minutes of being posted along with a few comments from other bots shilling the ad after being posted. These shilling comments also received a bunch of initial upvotes as well, and then all slowly got a trickle of downvotes by real humans after. Real humans also commented to denounce the scam ads a few minutes later, some of which were also receiving a sudden spike of downvotes from bot accounts. The bots would eventually get reported and banned (only from the subreddit because Reddit themselves didn’t do crap about bots), and then this would repeat multiple times a day.

I’ve checked their post history and all of these bots were “dormant” and were farming karma by reposting content and copying comments in other subs and imitating human behaviour for the better part of a year before being activated and used to post ads.

This was only from a scammy merch selling website in a relatively small community and it employed a sophisticated network of thousands of rolling bot accounts, probably more than the number of subscribers the subreddit had. There are countless other bot operations on Reddit for advertising, scamming, astroturfing and propaganda purposes that might be even more sophisticated and difficult to detect.

I’ve also seen my own original content being reposted by a bot farming karma in another subreddit and I was shadow banned for complaining about it while the bot was allowed to do its thing where it went on using its karma to post propaganda.This is when I quit Reddit and never looked back at this cesspool of a site.

And all that was before AI text generation was viable. I don’t know if the majority of Reddit is bot accounts, but the number of bots on it is staggering.

Almost every cloud based device I’ve ever owned ended up either putting an increasing number of basic features that were originally free behind a subscription paywall or simply turned itself into a brick when it stopped being supported.

I’m so glad I kept my car and weathered through this shitty phase of car manufacturing.

If only there was hope for weathering through the data collection, subscription-based features and the death of sedans though…

Considering that when people paid $100 for that OS they were told that it would be the “last Windows to be released”, shouldn’t there be a class action lawsuit?

They removed the star system a long time ago. They removed the down votes again a few years back.

They want their algorithm to be the only thing that decides whether you watch a video or not.

That white car further down in the picture demonstrates exactly why you need protected bike lanes. For crying out loud you could fit two cars in that lane and they still can’t stay inside it.

When I want to cancel I want to cancel. I don’t want to be put in line for over half an hour and then have to have a painful argument with some poor employee who gets punished if I somehow figure out the secret code that makes them cancel the account. And then have to do it all over again one month later because the account didn’t cancel because of “technical problems”.

A lot do myself included. But not enough to matter. Most ordinary Windows users don’t even know what Linux is or understand why they should care.

Is there a technical term for when a company or corporation makes a statement that is a blatant bad faith argument like that?

If none exists, I’d call it “Corporate massturbation”. Because they’re trying to jerk everyone off.

Edit Here’s another one: “Corporate Anal Ostriching.” Because they’re shoving their heads up their own asses

That’s why I’m running GrapheneOS, where I can actually disable things.

They don’t want you to disable things they can make money off of you with.

It is a casserole.