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AARD VARKMAN posted:I read it and thank you for posting it since I ain't paying for FT thank you for your service
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Is there a tiktok that summarizes this
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Feb 8, 2024 21:14
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to summarize it goes in to the 4 reasons for enshittification (lack of: competition, regulation, user ability to de-enshittify i.e. ad blockers, and worker power) and then says well maybe the first two are getting better kind of because the ftc and EU are occasionally trying a tiny bit for the first time in decades fart
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Feb 8, 2024 21:16
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work is sending me to vegas for a conference next month, tell me more about all the parks full of natural beauty and wonder within driving distance and please dont tell me theyve been shitted up too
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dreezy posted:work is sending me to vegas for a conference next month, tell me more about all the parks full of natural beauty and wonder within driving distance and please dont tell me theyve been shitted up too If you are gonna go to any, go to Zion. Idk if it’s been shitted up
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Feb 8, 2024 21:18
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Cory Doctorow owns, and his books are good. I hope he doesn't get enshittified
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Feb 8, 2024 21:19
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lol a tale of two mods.
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AARD VARKMAN posted:to summarize it goes in to the 4 reasons for enshittification (lack of: competition, regulation, user ability to de-enshittify i.e. ad blockers, and worker power) shorter
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Feb 8, 2024 21:20
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:shorter
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Feb 8, 2024 21:22
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:holy gently caress thanks for the gigantic news posts with no links that i absolutely will not be reading yep, wtf. here's the link: https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5 No paywall for me (ffox + bypass paywalls clean), suck it financial times
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Feb 8, 2024 21:25
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:shorter fart
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Feb 8, 2024 21:27
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:If you are gonna go to any, go to Zion. Idk if it’s been shitted up thats the one i heard HAD been shitted up in that its so popular that you need reservations now but goddamn i do wanna go
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Feb 8, 2024 21:32
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IOT is nothing but enshittification.
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Feb 8, 2024 21:35
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These things were always just a way for a company to charge you rent on a toothbrush. Hang on can't brush my teeth because it's getting an update. Oh wait now I have to factory reset it because that was a bad update that they rolled back and they're sorry. Oh wait this week's patch implemented a subscription plan. Oh wait the toothbrush is now mining bitcoins and hosting CSAM (on the blockchain)
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Feb 8, 2024 21:40
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that story is actually entirely made up fwiw (literally did not happen)
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TotalLossBrain posted:IOT is nothing but enshittification. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/viral-news-story-of-botnet-with-3-million-toothbrushes-was-too-good-to-be-true/
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But it's plausible  My posts have gotten shittier for no reason. Or have they?
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dreezy posted:work is sending me to vegas for a conference next month, tell me more about all the parks full of natural beauty and wonder within driving distance and please dont tell me theyve been shitted up too Zion is everything you've heard it is and more. They didn't have reservations going when I was there in March last year, but it’s better to check anyways. Get there as early as possible, take the shuttle bus all the way to the end, and then leisurely hike and shuttle bus your way back. The shuttle upcanyon will be crowded but coming back you should have it all to yourself. As others have said, Valley of Fire is way closer and nothing to sneeze at. The Grand Canyon's also within striking distance if you've got an abundance of free time.
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Depending on how much time you have, Bryce when it is still a little snowy is also incredible and the drive ain’t nothing to sneeze at either
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I had a better time at Bryce than Zion, but they're in spitting distance of each other.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:I basically just stopped doing things because of Ticketmaster.  I can't give those fuckers money. I had a horrible time trying to get their poo poo to even work on my phone (no physical tickets) at a concert where 15,000 people were using a single cell tower all at once. Took about a half hour to get a signal just to be able to get to the seat I payed for. $500 for two tickets to see Rage Against the Machine. Like $60 of that was a "convenience fee." Oh gently caress you. I just won't do anything if they're involved anymore. They can burn in hell. 
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skooma512 posted:These things were always just a way for a company to charge you rent on a toothbrush. There is a Cory Doctorow short story basically about this, where poor people get cheaper apartments in exchange for all the furnishings being provided by "smart" appliances that charge you a little bit per use. The protagonist learns how to jailbreak appliances and starts doing it for her neighbors but they all run the risk of huge penalties if caught. Very similar to his section in the recent "enshittocene" article about adversarial interoperability and how tech companies are abusing IP law to enforce their monopolies.
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credburn posted:I don't know if it's all CostCos, but -- I haven't been in one in a decade, but I got a membership recently -- what happened to the BULK? That's the entire point of CostCo. The person who sold me the membership was talking about how they're only like 20% bulk now, as if that's a good thing? Wandering around CostCo now, it's just like being in a huge department store with the same limited selection but now in normal portions and containers, and the entire place reeks of hotdogs. Why did I get a fuckin membership? This place sucks. You can't leave us hanging, what's the location?
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Pennywise the Frown posted:
lol it owns that rage against the machine tickets cost $250 now Take the power back!
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Seph posted:lol it owns that rage against the machine tickets cost $250 now It was maybe 2 years ago or whenever they started touring again. It was my first major concert in like 20 years. Never again. 
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I took my gf and her friend to the eras tour and that was a whole nightmare
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:I took my gf and her friend to the eras tour and that was a whole nightmare How much was it?
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Feb 8, 2024 23:13
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PostNouveau posted:How much was it? $1500 for 3 people because our friend got into the presale. A friend of ours and her husband decided to come with us last minute and paid $2800 for theirs
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Feb 8, 2024 23:23
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:$1500 for 3 people because our friend got into the presale. A friend of ours and her husband decided to come with us last minute and paid $2800 for theirs 2800 bucks could fund a trip to Europe for more than a week, including airfare.
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:$1500 for 3 people because our friend got into the presale. A friend of ours and her husband decided to come with us last minute and paid $2800 for theirs Goddamn!
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For $2800 you could spend months hiding out in a shack on the edge of the desert, living off distilled water and cornmeal, pooping in an old bucket
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The friend who paid $2800 is a dermatologist and makes like half a mil a year so I don’t think she’s going to miss out on Europe but it’s pretty expensive yeah
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It's crazy that they haven't split Ticketmaster into 10 different companies at this point.
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Fuckin' A. I paid maybe $20 to see Foo Fighters (and meet them) in like 1997 at Summerfest in Milwaukee. I saw a few big bands for the same price! In fact, the fee just gets you in the door. Metallica could be playing on another stage at the same time! gently caress Ticketmaster soooooooooo hard. edit: I found the lineup for the day I was there. Not the best but Summerfest used to go on for like a week https://www.setlist.fm/festival/1997/summerfest-1997-3d6addb.html quote:Saturday, July 5, 1997 edit: I just looked up ticket prices for 2024 and it's $28. I probably paid less back then. Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Feb 8, 2024 |
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costco is very much a bulk store near me ... that seems weird that there would be one that's 80% normal items (and it rules btw - the only way it's gotten shittier is they removed some items from the food court since covid)
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:$1500 for 3 people because our friend got into the presale. A friend of ours and her husband decided to come with us last minute and paid $2800 for theirs Wtf
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Spinz posted:Wtf
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No music or celebrity is worth that much to me. That's just insane. The $250 for Rage was disgusting as gently caress and turned me off of it for the rest of my life. wtf is wrong with people willing to fork out that much money for a couple of hours of entertainment? Not to mention the hassle of getting there. The line to get into Rage was about 2 miles long on the roads with cops having to direct traffic. We missed Run the Jewels because it took like 2 hours just to get to the gate. $1,500? That's a few months of car payments. what in god's name? I'd pay that much maybe to play on stage with my favorite band at a big rock concert. Like replace one of them and perform. And bands play for like 45 minutes. I'm aware that big pop stars put on a "show" that might be 2 hours or so. Still just..... I don't get it. I really don't. This poo poo is insane. I had no idea it was this ruined. And people will still pay it and push the prices up higher and higher. I wonder how many swifties take out loans for a loving concert ticket. edit: now I'm angry. Sorry. 
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Philthy posted:It's crazy that they haven't split Ticketmaster into 10 different companies at this point. it's not so crazy when you consider the us government is completely beholden to corporate interests and ticketmaster would go out of business (good riddance) if they couldnt print money via junk fees
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