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Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?

like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

Red_October ,

I think it’s less that we’re expected to sympathize, and more just that they’ve realized enough people will tolerate it. With OP’s example, Taco Bell has clearly decided that whatever business they may lose due to people deciding to not go to Taco Bell anymore because of the lack of napkins will be less than whatever they save by not stocking napkins anymore.

And they’re right.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a shitty thing to do, but between people in general not realizing that this place doesn’t even have napkins anymore, and people deciding they still want semi-delicious garbage tacos anyway, they’re really not going to see a big dip in revenue. They’ve simply realized that they really can just make their presented experience a little shittier just to save some money.

Red_October ,

Perhaps I should have clarified that for the sake of discussion I was taking OP’s comment at face value, but the essentials are the same either way. Whether it’s a chain-wide declaration that napkins are done, a single store doing away with them, or just a sufficiently casual attitude to restocking them that allowed them to run out in the first place, the math in the end is all the same. They can and will let their service get a little shittier, because they know they’ll save more money than they lose.

Ex-Binance CEO Zhao urges judge to allow him to leave US before sentencing (www.reuters.com)

Nov 24 (Reuters) - Lawyers for former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao are urging a U.S. judge to reject the Justice Department’s request to bar him from returning to his home in the United Arab Emirates until he is sentenced for violating anti-money laundering requirements.

Red_October ,

He’s playing 4d chess here, see by ASKING to be allowed to leave, he makes it clear that he won’t flee the country unless he gets permission, so there won’t be any reason to try to prevent it! /s

Red_October ,

Well good. Clowns should congregate in a circus, it keeps them off the streets and out of our hedges and sewers.

Red_October ,

Again? Is it gonna stick this time? You promise?

Red_October ,

Don’t forget you might still be fired at any time as a cost cutting measure.

Red_October ,

I’m pretty confident in saying it’s not 4D chess. His big mouth cornered him into having to buy Twitter for meme stock prices, then over the course of a year he managed to shit away more than half of it’s value, LOSING more than 20 billion dollars.

He’s not trolling, trolls don’t throw 20 billion dollars in the fire just for a giggle.

He’s a full on idiot. His greatest accomplishment and largest positive contribution to society is all the work he’s putting in day after day to abolish the myth of Billionaire Exceptionalism.

Red_October ,

What a fucking shock, who could have ever seen this coming? They should publish their research, the world has to know!

Red_October ,

Well after their pay-per-download debacle, their latest quarter’s earnings may not be indicative of the shit that is coming down on them. There are dark clouds on the horizon for Unity.

Red_October ,

So a little bit of looking around, and some “Close enough, fuck it” math suggests that the Saturn V over the duration of it’s launch emitted about the same amount of energy (190 Gigawatts over 2.5 minutes = 2.85x10e+13 joules, close to 7000 tons of TNT at 2.93E+13 joules) as 1/3 the yield of the Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki (FM = 20,000 tons of TNT = 8.36e+13 joules).

Now I’m not math inclined, so you should take all this with more salt than your doctor recommends, but if the rocket’s output is comparable to 1/3 of an actual nuke, then it’s not unreasonable to think that converting all of that back into kinetic energy would get you roughly 1/3 of a nuke’s output, which could be said to be “the force of a nuclear weapon.” It would take a launch of something Saturn V sized or bigger to put one up there, but supposedly Starship would be up to the task if it ever stops exploding itself and/or it’s launch pad.

What I’m saying is, it’s plausible enough for a blurb on some article.

If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...?

It seems like it’d get increasingly impractical as the years go on to hundreds of thousands and millions of years to write them out that way, but then…I guess technically one may already do this with the preceding years, so future’s fair game for it?

Red_October ,

At that point we switch to a Year (three digit) and Millennium (M followed by two digits) system, so the year 10,001 would be noted as 001.M10. After 999 M10 we reach 000.M11, and so on. Most applications would only really need the year number. /s

Red_October ,

It also looks like someone drew the initial plans for it in crayon on a napkin, so that checks out.

GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour (www.forbes.com)

While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.

Red_October ,

So he’s suggesting AAA games be about $5-$10 right?

Red_October ,

But guys, they swore an oath of loyalty to Russia, the plan is foolproof.

Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist (www.404media.co)

Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist::The ‘Brand Safety’ and ‘Suitability’ industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its ‘sentiment analysis’ algorithms think will make people sad or upset.

Red_October ,

No, Advertisers don’t give half a shit if sites like Jezebel Exist, existence one way or another doesn’t matter to them. They just don’t want to advertise there.

You don’t get to push an image of your brand being edgy and saying the things “mainstream media” won’t say, and bitch about how brands don’t want their names associated with you. If you want to be edgy and extreme and controversial, fine, we won’t stop you Just don’t act surprised when companies don’t want to see a screenshot of their logo on the same page as a headline that you’ve styled as too edgy for popular media.

Red_October ,

It does go both ways, you’re just selectively ignoring it. Look at what happened to Bud Light, consumption is down and countless endorsements severed, because the company presented a message and an image that certain people didn’t like. The result is the same, if you present an image that people or companies don’t want to be associated with, they’re allowed to not associate with it.

It’s not even a question of being glad to support it until the public notices. Companies were probably glad to get the advertising until THEY noticed it, or until someone pointed out to them just what they were sharing a page with. Most big businesses, especially those going through a third party advertising company, couldn’t tell you where their ads will appear. Until it’s brought to their attention, they may not even know.

And again, nobody gave half a shit about silencing Jezebel, nobody went out of their way to punish or suppress them, all they did is just not give them money. Not giving someone money isn’t the same thing as silencing someone.

Red_October ,

It would also likely mean that LGBTQ+ photographers won the right to discriminate against christians.

Red_October ,

However because of their 40% ownership, you’re ALSO giving more money to Tencent.

Red_October ,

It would help if their service itself wasn’t just objectively worse, but they’re not even trying to compete on quality. Their only selling points are free games and platform exclusives. It’s like they haven’t even tried to actually make a better service.

Red_October ,

Moreover, just like that guy, Epic thinks that’s the only thing that matters, or at least the biggest issue. The idea that gamers might not use them because their service is actually just worse seems to have never crossed their minds in any serious fashion.

Red_October ,

I mean, yeah? It’s better to grow crops that will readily thrive in the native climate, even and especially if that climate is shifting away from whatever you used to grow there.

Red_October ,

He killed himself because he knows how badly people like him are treated, because he serves and supports the people who do it. The thought of being on the other end of that interaction was immediately too much to tolerate. If he was bullied into suicide, he was the one doing the bullying.

Red_October ,

Part of the value of a service is the size of it’s user base, not just the size of the monetized user base. Right now, Youtube is just about the only game in town, but if half their users just Leave, even if it was the half that used effective ad blockers, the value of the site as a whole, for creators and advertisers both, is diminished.

Red_October ,

The problem isn’t that “most people” won’t believe it. The problem is that there is very little conversion of people who didn’t already believe it. The ones who most need to understand this will flat out refuse to believe any kind of science on the matter, because being right is what is most important to them. Admitting they were wrong just isn’t going to happen.

Red_October ,

As I understand it, the problem isn’t the presence of iron, but rather when it starts fusing silicon into iron, as that particular process consumes more energy than it releases, thus eating away at the radiation pressure that keeps the star “held up.”

Red_October ,

You dramatically overestimate how much of a fuck they give about you if you seriously think they’re passing up increased profits purely because they feel some villainous need to exert extra control over your life. They do not care about you. They do not care about their workers. They do not care about the consumer.

The only thing they give a shit about is their profits and how to maximize them.

We constantly hear them going off about how people with WFH aren’t working as hard, if at all. There are always wealthy fucks throwing shade at the 4 day work week as nothing but worker greed. They never believe the studies, because we’re living in an age where fucks like that will gladly ignore solid research and documented studies because they “feel” like it’s wrong.

And really, which is actually easier to believe? That some old fart who thinks his workers are all slackers anyway thinks that letting them work unsupervised at home will let them just do the bare minimum amount of work? Or some cabal of C-suite executives forgoing their own pay raise and bonus because they hate the idea that you might be comfortable while you work?

Donald Trump fined $10,000 for second gag order violation in civil fraud case (www.reuters.com)

Justice Arthur Engoron on Oct. 3 barred Trump from disparaging court staff after Trump shared on social media a photo of the judge’s top clerk posing with U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and falsely called her Schumer’s “girlfriend.”...

Red_October ,

$10,000 now? Yeah that’ll teach him. Mostly it’ll just teach him that violating court orders comes with a small price tag and he could do it a hundred more times.

Let’s just hope that when it happens again he actually gets to sit in a godamn jail for a change, clearly taking the loose change out of his pocket isn’t doing the job.

Red_October ,

The Party of Small Government, Ladies and Gentlemen. The most grotesque joke since The Aristocrats.

Red_October ,

People will still say it was over-hyped.

Red_October ,

Dude letting the intrusive thoughts win apparently.

Red_October ,

If you just funnel reddit users onto Lemmy, you’re just going to get a shittier version of Reddit. You’ll be selecting for people who are tired of, can’t use, or rejected from reddit, but didn’t make the move on their own. That will result in growth, but at the cost of quality. Specifically reaching out to reddit users sends the message that you just want to be reddit for people who can’t or won’t use reddit anymore.

Expansion should come naturally. As Lemmy grows and improves, new users will naturally gravitate over, but because it wasn’t some sudden influx of reddit users they’ll be less inclined to just bring Reddit’s culture with them.

Red_October ,

The difference lies in how we got here. One means finding a new community, assessing it, and integrating into it. It means seeing the new community as distinctly not Reddit. The other is effectively a “Come as you are” invitation that will just directly import reddit’s culture, after which it will be effectively too late to trim less desirable behaviors.

Red_October ,

$5,000? Wow, really bringing out the big guns here aren’t we. That’ll show him, I’m sure!

Red_October ,

I’d buy that phone for sure. Sounds hella good.

Red_October ,

Of course no one will notice, because it’s beneficial to certain groups to keep pushing the idea that there’s a rampant crime wave and we’re in more danger than ever.

Red_October ,

The voters who would believe Democrats are the ones who are obstructing government, and the voters who would ever vote for anyone who isn’t a Republican, have no overlap.

Red_October ,

Good thing the Republicans have a long history of bi-partisan cooperation in the interest of a smoothly functioning government, and thus have built up a reserve of good will they can call upon to help resolve this dilemma, right?

Elon Musk says 'we dug our own grave' with the Cybertruck as he warns Tesla faces enormous production challenges (www.businessinsider.com)

Elon Musk says ‘we dug our own grave’ with the Cybertruck as he warns Tesla faces enormous production challenges::Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the Cybertruck’s unique design means the company faces immense challenges in scaling production.

Red_October ,

It’s almost like Elon Musk is a complete fucking moron and not an Engineer. The wanker has never actually designed a thing in his life. He just tells other people to design something, or buys an existing company, then struts around like he thinks he’s the smartest thing around.

Red_October ,

Except that’s not what he actually wanted to do. Musk’s direction of Tesla was absolutely not with the specific intention of getting other brands to move into his market segment, and then completely outcompete him. Whether by virtue of the other brands having high quality standards, or Tesla’s shitty quality lowering the bar so much that nobody else could be worse, Tesla being the worst EV brand was not the plan.

Red_October ,

Yeah you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t actually assume that Elon Musk was telling the truth, basically ever.

Red_October ,

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Rot In Piss.

Red_October ,

On the model 3, yeah, because of all the rain pouring in.

Red_October ,

If you’re careful in selecting your samples you can get people to say just about anything.

Red_October ,

I get the feeling he thinks he’s always flexing, even when he doesn’t notice that his pants just fell down and everyone’s laughing at him.

Red_October ,

Don’t worry, anyone who agrees to try it was obviously brain damaged already, so no real loss.

Red_October ,

OP just wants to embrace semantics to try to feel superior. Just like everywhere else in their life, we’re all just rolling our eyes and wishing to the heavens they would shut up.

Red_October ,

If it gets to trial at all, at least it’ll be a short one. Seems now the only issue being questioned is whether the wealthy really can just flat out ignore the law, or if they have to at least pretend to obey it.

Red_October ,

Nationalize SpaceX for sure. Let him keep Twitter though, at this point it’s such a dumpster fire that it’s more of an albatross around his neck than an asset, we don’t need the tax payers carrying that shit.

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