They try to convince us that Jeremy Renner is funny, and we fall back!
Kichae
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I think a significant issue here is that Reddit is not built for fostering communities, and things that mimic Reddit will not foster them, either. The whole model is built around an endless number of very large, single subject discussion spaces with functionally no globally consistent moderation or oversight.
This is a model of content categorization and filtering for individual consumption, not community building. Lemmy "communities" are just content tags, they're not real community spaces. They're never going to encourage the kind of tight knit spaces with idiosyncratic customs, rituals, and rules that actual vommunities have. They're never going to let you get to know others because "off topic" discussions are meant to be had in entirely different spaces.
Reddit and reddit-like services are about content creation and delivery, noy community. Thatms baked into the form.
Commumusm is when gubmint no give tax credits to rich and when hair
Then the OP just rented the software.
Adobe should pay more than the inflation-adjusted price - multiples of it, even - so that the repayment is actually punative.
The policy rate is sitting right around where it was prior to 2008. In the years that followed, the economy went nuts, and a big part of that insanity was masked by the essentially free money capital was able to get from lenders. Venture Capitalists managed to gain immense influence over so much of our daily lives, and employers masked their ever growing share of the pie with ever cheaper and lower quality consumer goods that got cheaper relative to overall inflation.
Rather than fix the underlying problems, they're signalling that they want to go back to sweeping them under the rug.
Fun.
It's great for gaslighting people into thinking they don't know what a bicycle looks like!
Oh yeah, especially the season level writing. It's been a recurring disappointment. It's clear that they don't know how to structure a 10-15 episode serial drama.
It's upper management that wanted people back mire than anyone. They had no one to show off their wealth and power to.
No, they're happy to pay their friends from the public purse, too. They're just not also above throwing those friends under the bus when they think it's politically advantageous.
Especially if they were someone else's friend.
Employers lost their minds when they saw their office employees comfortable and happy. They realized that WFH gave them just a little bit of control over their day, and that meant the employers haf just a little bit less.
Then they tried to strong-arm them back into the office, and a lot of people quit. Those who did not were less than enthused to be there, and many people were completely burnt out from the pandemic. Employers returned to offices having lost their most productive people, and having angered a significant number of those who stayed. Many disgruntled workers talked about cutting back their work activities, since they rexognized that their efforts didn't eben earn them the trust to work without their boss standing over their shoulder, let alone more tangible bemefits.
Around the same time, reports of a completely separate phenomenon - one where employees gradually disengage from their jobs as they search for a new one - came out. These were based on corporate research that showed you could predict who would tender a resignation days or even weeks before they did so. This phenomenon was given a name by the report's authors.
Once that name got misapplied to the former consequences-of-employer-actions, bosses got talking, and people who are Very Serious Business People Who Are Very Serious Abpit Business went into action to do what Business People do best: talk confidently about bullshit and things they know nothing about.
The result has been a "-gate" like meme of reproducing and evolving names for things that people with too much time and money believe are keeping them from owning peoples souls.
Because "you need to name a problem to solve a problem".
The acting is fine. The issue is the genre.
Discovery is melodrama, something previous series explicitly were not.
"We increased supply! That makes prices go up, right?"