SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to news in Tesla Investors Call for Musk's Suspension, Apple Pulls Ads on X

but you repeat yourself.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to technology in "A Billion Nazis at the Table" - The Fediverse model proves contextual moderation by real humans is both easy and affordable. The presence of Nazis on corporate social media implies at least a tacit acceptance.

I’ve seen people who had profiles that literally professed that they only existed to troll, and their accounts lasted longer than people who said something wrong politically regarding Israel/Palestine.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to technology in Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

You mean the guy who spun this all up as a Non-Profit company, then spun up an LLC for that Non-Profit to manage, then made deals with Microsoft?

Somehow his long term actions tell me, like most rich twatwaffles, you can’t actually trust what he is saying.

When the board that he answers to says he hasn’t been consistently candid, you can bet your sweet ass any soundbites you as a regular schlub have read are “not consistently candid” and you’re hearing what he wants you to hear.

But you do you on believing these chucklefucks when their actions speak loudly to the contrary.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to technology in U.S. Department of Justice backs tenants in case alleging algorithmic price-fixing by big landlords and real estate tech company RealPage

The problem is they already succeeded. There will unlikely be any ruling telling them they have to now reduce rents to reasonable levels.

They will be unlikely to let go of these profits.

EDIT: Just came back with the deets. The application they use for this is called YieldStar. They bought YieldStar in 2002. They have potentially been doing this for twenty fucking years now. The idea that we could go back and undo what they have done is lunacy. Our government can barely even pass a budget. They’re certainly not going to make it so that rents in every market covered by YieldStar go back down to what they were 20 years ago, especially because that’s literally not sustainable with maintenance costs as they currently are.

realpage.com/…/realpage-acquires-yieldstar-multif…

Even if the DOJ shuts this down and prevents it from happening again in the future, they had twenty years to slowly raise rents all over the country. This is why people who are in their 40’s suddenly can’t afford places that they could afford in their 20’s.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to technology in "A Billion Nazis at the Table" - The Fediverse model proves contextual moderation by real humans is both easy and affordable. The presence of Nazis on corporate social media implies at least a tacit acceptance.

Damn, I thought I was the only person who noticed this. It’s just like being in elementary school all over again. The bullies run rampant, but any time anyone stands up to the bullies, they get in trouble while the adults (mods) ignore the various abuses the bully gets away with regularly.

Life never really changes, does it?

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to technology in U.S. Department of Justice backs tenants in case alleging algorithmic price-fixing by big landlords and real estate tech company RealPage

I think the best description I ever saw of the unreality of Wall Street numerology was calling the DOW “a graph of rich people’s feelings.”

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to technology in "A Billion Nazis at the Table" - The Fediverse model proves contextual moderation by real humans is both easy and affordable. The presence of Nazis on corporate social media implies at least a tacit acceptance.

Yep, it’s really as simple as “Why have a handful of markets, when we can have all the markets.” It’s so odd how it’s a combination of abject greed and total disdain for things like inclusivity, but they back it because money.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to technology in "A Billion Nazis at the Table" - The Fediverse model proves contextual moderation by real humans is both easy and affordable. The presence of Nazis on corporate social media implies at least a tacit acceptance.

They claim it’s impossible because they don’t want to lose market share.

They didn’t start treating women, black people, LGBT people, the disabled, and countless other minorities as human beings because they thought all human life has intrinsic value, they started treating them like humans because they realized they were leaving money on the table. They realized their profits could be even bigger if they hired people from these groups and aimed advertising at them, they could have everyone’s money, not just white people’s money.

Now that the real “silent majority” aren’t a bunch of backwards fucking racists, companies try to act like they give a shit about various minority groups while really only caring to get the profits they can extract from those communities.

They understand that when they lose customers, those customers turn to other services to spend their money, with right wingers and white supremacists and authoritarians, that’s running off to places like TruthSocial and Xitter.

This is the same thing, they don’t value the lives of white supremacists, they value the money in their pockets, and as long as those people have money to spend, they will find excuses to keep taking their money.

The Fediverse easily sidesteps this problem by being volunteer and donation-based, meaning nobody is currently using it to sell to the biggest markets available.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to memes in In Honor of American Thanksgiving

Most traditions start with humans looking for an excuse to drink and party and generally overindulge.

Any old excuse will do, even celebrating genocide.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to risa in Our Man Clint

The real issue is humanity is pumping out more and more content each year, to the point where it would take several lifetimes to consume it all. This means there is no big central pillar anymore, simply everyone is into just their own stuff. Everyone’s tastes are so unique that other than some cursory similarities in taste most people still have wildly different preferences. It was always this way, but now with near endless content of books, blogs, websites, news, tv shows, movies, music, and video games people have more choice than ever and each choice means they are missing more and more other content by making that choice.

Its so overwhelming its making some people check out of media consumption nearly entirely.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to technology in Apple doesn't need to ban Sunbird or Beeper; they're already on borrowed time

Beeper’s business model is actually based on people wanting all their messaging services in one app so they’re not always separated.

I don’t like Beeper personally, but this kind of misunderstands what Beeper intends to do, which is bigger and more thoughtful than what Sunbird is doing, which is just iMessage.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to technology in Stop pretending Nothing's iMessage app had anything to do with RCS on the iPhone

Meanwhile Beeper, doing the exact same thing as Nothing for iMessage for several years already:

*crickets

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to in How not to spot imposters...

I’m definitely this kind of Trekkie.

The dumb, Andy Samberg one I mean.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to risa in MFW my college roommate ignites a lifelong obsession w/ a casual, "So.. you heard of Star Trek?.."

No, no, it’s the one that’s like Stargate.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago to memes in When the game is loading and you see your reflection in the TV

When the punchline is in the title.