One thing that annoys me with the market at the moment is that the majority of folding phones available are like small crappy tablets that fold into a large, impractical to carry phones, and not large, very usable phones that fold into something much more compact that is easier to carry…

Google prioritizing profits over the privacy of its users? Colour be shocked.

Seriously thought, is there anything at all that they prioritize over the privacy of its users at this point?

What a dumpster fire that truck is.

And I’m using it against a literal neonazi. Seems fair to me.

If you want to know who really is in charge, just look at who you’re not allowed to criticize.

So you didn’t read the article. Just claim that the turnout being high eliminates any possibility that voter suppression happened and couldn’t have made a difference. Under a context of historical widespread use of voter suppression by the Republican party. With millions of legal votes being arbitrarily rejected, strangely overrepresenting black voters. With mass rejection of mail-in ballots which are statistically overrepresenting Democrat votes. With targeted potential voters being purged for not responding to a “poison letter” that almost nobody responds to. Within an election what was decided under one percent of the votes. Got it.

Suppression includes the mass rejection and disqualification of perfectly legal ballots for various “reasons”.

They turned up alright. But their vote was thrown away.

• Claims in an interview that he is qualified to handle a social media company on the internet because he has “put internet in space”
• Buys a financially struggling company for way too much money
• Dismantles everything that made it attractive
• Insults and fires the most competent employees who are trying to stop him from destroying the platform
• Doesn’t pay the employees he fired owed severance, further discouraging the best of the workforce from ever applying to work there
• Turned it into something so repulsive and toxic that the users and advertisers start to leave
• Told the advertisers to “go fuck themselves”
• Tried to sue the advertisers into returning, further discouraging any new advertiser from ever doing business with him
• Destroys the brand recognition by renaming it to a letter of the alphabet he personally likes but nobody else gives a crap about
• Abuses his admin powers to steal a handle with the name he wanted from its owner, further eroding the user’s trust in him handling the platform
• Continues ruining the platform, turning it into his personal soap box to push his (toxic) ideas and abuses his powers to reduce the visibility of those he doesn’t like while claiming to be radically pro-free speech.
• Alternative platforms have gained momentum and have reached critical mass and will soon become the new default platform people will flock to. High profile users leave.
• Whines and bitches about the company not making any money.

Hey guys, I’m starting to think that this guy’s fortune has absolutely nothing to do with his skills at running a business

Imagine the memes if someone started shooting Nazis and his name happened to be Mario

I’m pretty sure a lot of scam calls use machines that call every possible phone number within an area code and see who answers. There is no way to avoid it.

It is worse than that. They made it so the printer will refuse to print if it hasn’t installed a new update. They took control over the printer away from their owners and it really looks like this is meant to pave the way to anti-consumer practices such as forcing an always on-online requirement, introducing subscription fees to keep some functionalities that used to be free and/or denying the ability to use third party filaments or parts. The “it is for security” excuse is pretty much a meme at that point. It never is about security and always about screwing over the consumer for more money.

I was looking forward to buying a Bambu printer but now it is off the table for me. I’ve been burned too many times by devices that arbitrarily require to be connected to “the cloud” to function. There is absolutely no good reason why a 3D printer cannot be directly controlled via USB or local network without the need for a connection to the internet for “authentication” (imagine how much more secure that would be!). I’m glad I got to see this before I bought one. Bambu owners should be pissed right now. They just got the rug pulled from under them.

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.