justsomeguy

joined 2 years ago
[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

Trust me bro, just one more data center, bro, I swear, just one more trillion dollar contract and we'll fix everything, bro please, just a little killing bro, it'll be fine, trust me.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

She looks like she'd force children to give up their puppies so she can put them in the puppy crushing machine as the sound of their little snapping bones is the only thing that helps with her headaches.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Weirdest thing about this is that it would actually be comforting to me if there was a villain executing an elaborate plan. Instead it's just greed that drives it. You put a regular joe through business school, give em a CEO position with shareholders breathing down their neck and they'll start pushing shit down their customers throats in no time.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Gambling ads go brrrrrr.

A good third of the population simply don't have the cognitive capabilities to understand these things and if they're not protected by regulation they'll always fall for some form of scam.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They have achieved higher productivity by not using teams themselves.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Boomers at least had a reason to go through this development because they were still able to accumulate some wealth. With a good job in the 80s-90s it was possible to invest into assets that have by now exploded in value. That does make some people more inclined to hold on to the status quo.

Anyone after Gen x on the other hand has little reason to hold on to a system that keeps screwing them over.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Don't talk to the crypto advertisement bot. You'll scare it.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My favorite last week was 2 dead support numbers and a third that let to AI which happily told me it has a solution that will fix the problem. The link it sent brought me to the bing search page.

I was so happy to finally talk to indian support a day later.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 114 points 1 week ago (9 children)

This is for the best. As someone who is forced to work with a lot of Microsoft infrastructure let me tell you things have never been this broken before. They keep doubling down on AI and it simply doesn't work.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

As a selfmade billionaire I can tell you it's all about your grind mind. I started my company in the kitchen and continued in the garage. When my mom initially said I can't have 10 million in starting capital I asked her again and she said ok. Grind mind. Then she told me not to take the lambo but guess what? I took it anyway. Grind mind.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

[drunkenly crashes his car into a home]

"Oh, oh shit, oh guys this open room concept is really elevating this living room into a welcoming space for the entire family"

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

the nasal spray vaccine supercharges the lungs’ own immune defenses, keeping them on high alert for months

I can see this working against bacteria and viruses but how does it block allergens? Isn't an overly strong immune reaction how they start to begin with?

 

Most grocery stores in my country have established an App (or card) you're supposed to use and it's slowly but surely going down the route of enshitification.

They start by letting you collect points. Then it's extra savings. Eg regular price is 3€, sale price is 1.80€ but app users get it for 1.50€. Cool, a way to save some money, you might think. Nope. Once they reach a critical mass of app users it continues to sales being App-only so everyone is now forced to use the App but there's no bonus left. Two of the biggest chains are at this stage. You now have the regular price (3€) and the app price (1.80€) which is the exact situation as before the app existed but they force you to jump through some extra hoops to get it.

Additionally to that they collect all this data with the sole purpose of manipulating you into spending more money at their store than you did before. They extract their profits from their customers and if we help them get more efficient at that it'll be us that lose out.

Tl;dr: Fuck store apps.

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