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  • Exactly this. “We have maxed out the amount of money we can extract from people and have reached diminishing returns on profitability.”

    Why can’t anyone just create a billion dollar company that makes something people like and then be happy they can consistently earn $200m per year? Maybe ask the people what kinds of features they want and improve the service to increase the value to users once you need something for your staff to do when the product is complete.







  • You are right that coming together and accepting one another’s right to peacefully coexist is the moral thing to do, but as that is a practical impossibility I didn’t/don’t really credit it as a moral solution (failing the second word of the phrase, not the first).

    But look, people way smarter than me have tried to crack this nut and failed. I guarantee it won’t take a lot of effort to poke holes in anything I could say about this. I have my thoughts but always tempered by the understanding that I have more ignorance than knowledge about the realities of that situation.




  • Trump’s play here will be to issue an order as late in the election cycle as possible while still accomplishing his aims and moving as quickly as possible. The changes they make will involve severe staff reductions and election infrastructure destruction that cannot quickly be undone.

    The aim will be that legal challenges will take long enough that the changes can’t be undone for the current election cycle. The courts will bristle and wring their hands, but ultimately conclude that changing the election rules in the middle of an election is tantamount to interference and any rulings won’t take effect until the next election cycle (see for example court cases about gerrymandering).





  • Federation works against mod abuse. A mod can only abuse their power on one board. If enough people get sick of it, they’ll leave for a different one and it will be almost frictionless (discounting defederation issues).

    Landlords (a rough analogy but bear with me) only have power due to the friction of packing up all your belongings and going elsewhere. Lemmy has about the minimum friction you can have. I have entire instances blocked. I don’t need them. I can find people discussing my interests on a dozen other servers.

    In theory, Reddit isn’t much different. Don’t like one subs mods, join a different sub, but Reddit itself kinda puts its finger on the scale there. Plus, fuck Reddit’s API changes. They own communications infrastructure, they don’t own the thought’s and minds of users, but they act like they don’t understand that.


  • Problem is pro Palestinian people don’t hate Jews (with exceptions), they hate Israeli government, a quasi-fascist apartheid state. There is a real problem with equating anti-Israel sentiment with antisemitism. I don’t have a problem with Saudi people, but their government is awful. I have no problem with Afghan people, but the Taliban are cocksuckers.

    There’s a real problem these days with governments not representing their people. The underclasses are going to have to break out the guillotines and straight up murder the rich in order to reset the cycle.

    Man, I wrote this comment and I still feel like it took a couple of turns I wasn’t expecting.





  • Maybe, but I figure if every single one of them has a degree, the odds have to be in their favor that at least one of them is smarter than me. And if not, well I just proved how dumb I am by thinking that. QED.

    That said, you’re right, too many places hold that degree in too high esteem. It wasn’t important for the first twenty to twenty-five years of my career, but now I’m finding it really puts a ceiling on how far I can go. I’m working under tech leads who have fifteen years less experience than I do. Have to see if I can get hired internal from my contract (which takes special waivers for non-degreed folks) and then advance internally.

    It was so bad, when my last contract ended, I had two managers invite me to apply for openings with them and my resume was auto-rejected by their hiring system.