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Paracaidas posted:A pair of really interesting polls catching attention right now: Edit Page snipe fixed for context.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:But, big companies that rely heavily on brand awareness (with the exception of Uber) all seem to realize that they don't know what the impact of online advertising is, but are all too scared to be "the one" who stops doing it and gets buried. So, it's become like a weird cost of doing business to just throw away a certain amount of your company's money as an insurance policy. We've visited the goddamn moon and somehow the supposed big intelligent leaders of our society still feel perfectly normal sacrificing large swaths of grain to the gods.
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Sep 27, 2022 19:49
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Solkanar512 posted:It's amazing how loving techbros can never, never resist doing the same poo poo that's been proven to fail because they're too good to listen to anyone who isn't just like them. When you believe that you have earned everything in your lap because you are a superman, you believe in these kinds of creepy supposedly darwinist raffles. Because to not believe in them is to openly admit that perhaps luck really did have some say in your own rise to power.
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Oct 21, 2022 22:29
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Weird to see a Pope taking a hammer to someone's husband. Historically, it has been the case that the husband hammers the Pope.
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Oct 28, 2022 19:37
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Can we all agree to just collectively ignore anyone that frequently makes this precise facial expression? It seems to be related to really dumb people that believe they are the smartest people in the world.
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Nov 1, 2022 21:06
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Jaxyon posted:Eh I suspect that he's gonna make some promises and they'll come back and advertise. They just want reassurance. Maybe. On the other hand, what percentage of advertising was done by major automotive companies? You know, direct competitors to another of Musk's companies?
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Nov 1, 2022 22:33
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I can't imagine the mindset needed to be capable of working for a company like Twitter, but still feel the need to stick with a job that tells you that you're either fired or on an 84 hour work week. I would have quit immediately. I have quit other jobs for similar reasons, and I am not as obviously employable as these folks almost certainly are. There has to be a fairly significant number of people that just walk. A company tells me that I am on 84 hours? That best case scenario is 84 hours, worst case is I am fired? I help them with getting it settles and I walk. I don't see how Twitter survives Musk. It's going to be held together with chicken wire, chewing gum, and memories.
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Nov 4, 2022 10:22
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Levitate posted:the reply tweets to anything musk tweets are just gross and dumb as hell They want permission from the universe to be just as unapologetically callous, belligerent, un-self-critical, and self-important. And if he's seen as a faultless God, this legitimizes their own numerous shortcomings, as opposed to necessitating a moment of self-reflection.
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Nov 14, 2022 21:32
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DynamicSloth posted:No they'll just kick it down to the states and say the Feds have no basis to legislate. If, and this is a big, big if, they wanted to block such a thing, this is indeed the justification that they would attempt to use. However, I am not sure it passes muster. Individual state marriage laws have always struck me as pretty odd. It's a bit of a disaster if one state recognizes your marriage but another doesn't. We can try to claim marriage as this personal or spiritual or sacred thing all we want, but at the end of the day, as far as the government and all entities outside the marriage are concerned, it's just a financial contract, and probably the most common kind of contract outside of general employment. Leaving that up to the states is more trouble than it's worth.
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Nov 14, 2022 22:01
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Ither posted:Uber or Lyft? While individual rides will be cheaper than a car, this solution will not wind up more affordable than owning a car. I don't drive at all (meaning I imagine it'd be worse for someone who does and presumably isn't used to walking wherever they can) and needing to use Uber and Lyft for everything during the early stages of the pandemic where public transit was shut down or... Uh, not really very safe, an still having to go to my old, essential job every day pretty much cancelled out any amount of money that my then constant overtime would have been making me. It was easily my largest monthly expense, and nothing really came close
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Nov 19, 2022 21:09
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It was an unpleasant day at my old work when I realized that the emails that would go out whenever someone threatened to shoot us all or bomb us or whatever were only reserved for the threats that were deemed "credible". Not all the threats. Just the ones that might have legs. My neighborhood has had a significant uptick in gun violence, at least anecdotally. I can't remember the last week where I didn't read about at least one in my area. Living in this country is needlessly stressful.
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Nov 23, 2022 20:17
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I AM GRANDO posted:Smoking used to be commonplace in the US, but now it’s despised. I see no reason gun ownership couldn’t follow the same trajectory. Cigarette companies had a stranglehold on law and politics in the US just like the nra and gun manufacturers do now. You can’t make a problem go away entirely, but that’s no excuse to do nothing. It stands to reason that at least part of the solution is to pressure more private spaces to ban guns, if the country at large won't. I mean, obviously for poo poo like school shootings, it's already the case that they are banned, but it certainly couldn't make matters any worse. At this point, I would be inclined to say any progress at all on the issue, even if small and symbolic, would be better than the "literally nothing forever" we are currently facing.
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Nov 23, 2022 20:55
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To say nothing of our shoddy infrastructure. The social safety net is one thing, but the actual physical bits of the country are kinda backwater. The person that came up with GDP was one of the most successful liars in history. The US has a lot of money. Americans? Not so much.
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Nov 23, 2022 21:47
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