Famous chefs who have more people requesting them than they have time in the day, so they go to whoever pays the most.
Like, Gordon Ramsey still does private events, but only if they pay more than he could be making with his TV deals.
$100M of $VT, secure my ultra-comfortable retirement right then and there.
Fucking eggs come out of its arse!
So like, the ad didn’t even say anything about the genocide in Palestine? It just starred a half-Palestinian model?
Wait until you see the Nepalese flag. It’s not even a rectangle!
(It’s also the only flag in the world to be mathematically defined by its country’s constitution)
That could realistically be around 1/3 yearly profit in a reasonable company (18% operating margin is common). No idea whether Twitter is currently profitable (it wasn’t when he bought it).
I got a call from this woman in Boston, out was just a product activation call so I had to read her a 20-character activation string. We use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for those, to reduce confusion over the phone.
The last character was Y-Yankee. I followed that up with “but I guess that’s a politically incorrect word around Boston, huh?” And she goes on an absolute tirade about how people are way to sensitive, throwing out a few racist dogwhistles along the way.
I just said “Ma’am, I was making a joke about the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.”
She went silent for a few seconds and hung up on me.
You don’t even need “power hungry mods” for that to go wrong, you just need mods who don’t care. That’s EXACTLY where Facebook and Twitter are right now. Getting content removed there is basically impossible, I’ve reported people for death threats and was told they never violated community standards.
If the platform isn’t going to moderate itself, the users should be able to.
While it’s true that the downvote often gets abused as a way to stifle otherwise-good discussion, without it it’s hard to deal with discussion that truly should NOT be happening.
There’s a reason election denial is more common and looks more legitimate on Facebook and Twitter. It’s because they don’t have a mechanism for people to nuke that discussion out of the top of the thread.
Some useful simulations for understanding many proposed voting styles, and the potential drawbacks of each.
Not sure if it’s my specific app or lemmy as a whole, but that spoiler tag isn’t working. Sometimes they’ll break if you put a space between the tag and your text.
… >! Testing with spaces on both ends !<
… >! Testing with a space at the front!<
… >!Testing with a space at the end !<
… >!Testing with no spaces!<
Looks like reddit spoiler tags just don’t work in general
Not sure if it’s my specific app or lemmy as a whole, but that spoiler tag isn’t working. Sometimes they’ll break if you put a space between the tag and your text.
! Testing with spaces on both ends !<
! Testing with a space at the front!<
!Testing with a space at the end !<
!Testing with no spaces!<
I still have a sound card, because I have a stupid sound bar that works great except it only takes optical audio input.
“China is the worst polluter on the planet and they need to do better”
[China invests heavily into green technologies]
“NO NOT LIKE THAT!”
It’s the “all your eggs in one basket” problem.
While I agree with the sentiment here, this is pretty 1-dimensional. For one, US support of Ukraine actually has little to do with democracy and everything to do with national sovereignty. One nation with imperial ambitions invaded another nation without pretense, US provides aid to stave off that invasion.
Hypocritical given US history of imperialism? Sure. But it’s NOT imperialism under the mask of democracy.
Similar arguments apply to various points on this list. Supporting NATO is about maintaining a military alliance against common enemies, not spreading democracy.
“How long has it been since we’ve waltzed?”
“Oh, Gomez…hours.”
“In a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling the shovels”
Nvidia is the shovel-seller right now. A couple of AI companies will probably get huge, 99% will fail. But Nvidia is getting paid by them all.
Man, I knew fingerprint encryption was bad but that is nuts.
They also were allied with groups of confederate rednecks with the understanding “we have incredibly different worldviews, but we’re both poor and it’s because of the rich folks in power”
The three-letter-agencies could not allow that kind of class consciousness so they assassinated Fred Hampton.