MeepsTheBard

joined 9 months ago
[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The IPO announcement w/ shares being offered to Reddit users. Also, the deal with AI training off of user data without consent. Hard to keep track these days lol.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago

The people making the big decisions aren't the ones working. They're the ones put in charge to make money for investors, who want monthly returns. Not "here's what will get us 1XX% growth in 6-8 years," but now.

And you'd think this would only be the case with public companies, but private equity is gobbling up quality companies and milking them dry by cutting costs and abusing their brand's good name. People want returns on their investments QUICK these days.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Tenets breaking rules and being shitty mean that landlords lose on their investments (which inherently carry risk).

Landlords breaking rules and being shitty means that people go homeless, live in awful conditions, or cannot afford basic necessities.

Sure, both sides have the capacity to be bad, but trying to "both sides" basic shelter is fucking wild.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 129 points 8 months ago (4 children)

"AI isn't good enough to replace workers yet, but it's good enough to convince CEOs it can."

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago

I think they were commenting on how people seem to be zealots for Firefox on Lemmy, despite having some (reasonable) flaws. Despite this news, I'd bet a lot of them will continue. Not a pro-Chrome stance by any means.

(I had to block the Firefox and Linux subs day 1 because of how much anti-Chrome/ anti-Windows I saw).

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

You're making a lot of worst-possible-assumptions about my character based on a throwaway comment on how fake awards aren't that important. Go outside.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Bro it is truly, truly not that deep.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Award shows have been on the way out for well over a decade, and have been purely marketing tools for even longer.

More importantly, the devs who got their games nominated likely saw sales spike, which means more players enjoying the things they created, and they were properly compensated for their work. That means way more than a BS award that sits on a shelf.

It's "undermining gaming" to give award show results so much weight when we know how biased they are.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Considering the awards are nigh-useless anyway, sacrificing some "credibility" to call out shitty business seems worth it imo.

It's not like it's a "haha look how silly this is" joke--it's a "you all fucked this up though for the public to hate you, do better" joke.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago

I already have tech tips, thanks tho

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Just had to open a link in Teams and it ignored that Chrome was my default to launch Edge, then tried to set itself as the default for anything clicked in Teams.

I can easily see Microsoft doing something comparably shitty for people opening links in Word or PowerPoint. If not for Apple's even more egregious ecosystem practices (among other things) I'd be very tempted to switch.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago

It's environmental geopolitics 🤷 seeing widespread adoption of a policy that the US (Reagan) ignored get traction in Ireland helps highlight how shortsighted that view was. Considering the US has had a small hand in building the world's energy supply, it seems at least tangential to remind people why such policies have existed.

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