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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • They just stop(ped) offering support for whatever the product or line was. Create a “service portal” that provides results, relevant or not. Creat a forum where people can ask questions that aren’t answered, or if they are it’s the labor of some Stockholm Syndrome user who is trying to help others as they weren’t.

    This won’t stop here, it’s the dream to not actually have to service your product. Imagine being Ford and saying “as is” when a customer asks why the blinker doesn’t work. Insane, right? That is the push here for a few reasons, all $ of course:

    • achieve oligarchy or monopoly
    • enshittfy product
    • remove product support to save on support labor and related infrastructure
    • profit!

    *Profit for a while until people leave or you are replaced but what a profitable run!



  • This goes right up there with stock chart technical analysis. "It’s definitely this. Though it can also be this. Or that. And it depends on the person. And the context. And…

    It’s so messy/noisy with variables, stuff like this just gives people false confidence that they know who/what someone is or what something represents. Psuedoscience




  • I was on the fence about attending a world cup (it would be my first) when the sleaze has been trying to say it’s “his” for the last year. Since FIFA has been corrupt forever it probably means I won’t be able to enjoy it as much because I’ll be considering what I’d be endorsing. It’s disappointing, I’ve wanted to go to one since I was a kid but considering there will probably be ICE raids in the concourse or psychopaths trying to drive trucks into the crowd to kill the [insert group] I’ll have to forgo it.

    I’m surprised I have heard anything about boycott here–therr was a ton of push for that during Qatar build up around human rights, and nothing for this? I’d hope the US gets boycotted by whole nations ala East German/Russian Olympics.











  • I don’t know what’s so hard to grasp;

    • immigrants are bad because they steal American jobs
    • immigrants are good because exploitative industries can’t run without desperate, no-option workers
    • immigrants are bad because they’re free loaders
    • immigrants are good because they pay far more tax than they collect in benefits, illegal or legal
    • immigrants are bad because they keep American wages down
    • immigrants are good because they keep tech wages down so we should expand the visa programs tech companies lobbied for

    As long as you know to which audience he’s speaking, corporate funders or everyone else, he’s been completely consistent.


  • What about states? Ever had to call unemployment? Lucky enough to be in a US state with paid leave? They are websites that make 1998 1.0 look decent. Their phone trees just dump you when you call them and say they are overloaded. No email, no ticket support online. So no web, phone or email support for those you are beholden to.

    States aren’t trying to turn a profit, what is the incentive to have unemployment and paid leave broken in states that have passed them as law?odt of the states with paid leave tout them and promote how great they are but make the process a gauntlet of cirizen-hating obstacles.

    Looking at you CA, OR and WA.