You’re paying thrice:
1: With your spare time in which you give advice on forums and maintain Wikipedia pages. This information is getting slurped up by AI crawlers.
2: Implicitly with your money, to get some new AI doodad on your laptop or your phone, trained on 1.
3: See meme.
And that’s why billionaires exists.
The other rabbits seem weirdly indifferent to what’s going on.
Hostile? Yes, in the sense of purity spirals spiralling. Sometimes.
Insular? Maybe, but I already know I live in a bubble.
And then there are communities on Lemmy which feel both hostile and insular to me, like the one with “cars” in its name…
We had something kinda similar at my last workplace.
A guy, “Bob”, with the worst attitude you’ll ever come across. Total nightmare. Multiple times on any given day, he’d put down and even threaten people or rat them out to their bosses if some tiny little detail didn’t go the way he liked it. When said bosses reacted indifferently, he’d full on stalk people before and after work to have a go at them. For this and only this purpose, he even drove to a guy’s house several towns over.
At last, he got reprimanded (kinda rare in Europe) and was fired (even more rare) within a few months. And only because that specific company was generally very intolerant of this sort of behavior.
For a long time after this whole ordeal, if somebody displayed a bad attitude at work, we’d say: “Hey, look, he’s pulling a Bob.”
Naaah. Get your lazy asses back to the office… so its market value doesn’t decrease.
Also, no wind turbines or any such humbug in our neighborhood… so we can keep increasing rents. Which we, the boomers, decided ourselves, through collective hypnosis. Also, what’s with this freeloader mentality? Imagine if any of the hoi-polloi could simply use wind and sun. Like, for themselves.
They should have had Imperial March playing in the background.
When my huge, multinational company announced one year of total grind for everyone, they said there would be rewards to make up for it.
Fast forward one year and the #1 top performer received… a diner with the CEO. And nothing else.
I wish I was joking.
Wow! There’s an emoji for everything.
Temba, his arms wide.
Dickbutt? Loss? Come on, there must be something hiding in there…
Didn’t Trump want to devalue the dollar to make exports easier? Here’s his chance. He could just tank the entire US economy like he tanked his casinos, making a select few filthy rich in the process. Then buy the dip and when the economy rebounds, him and his cronies will have another payday.
It’s probably been mentioned many times already, but here it goes anyway:
“If you put a clown onto the throne, the clown will not turn into a king. The palace will turn into a circus.”
Wikipedia says it also ran/ runs on Atari Jaguar, Risc PC and whatever a “Tapwave Zodiac” is.
I haven’t found proper grammar check in my native Danish yet
LanguageTool has it, but I cannot vouch for its accuracy.
Captain Planet
So this is how I find out that Ted Turner has died this May.
They are here already and have been for some time, it keeps being all over the news.
Though they don’t appear to carry explosive payloads… yet.
“Vanilla Sky”, and his acting in it, is plain fantastic, I have to hand it to him.
Polly want a cracker.