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> This is truly in accordance with european values, where we reward participation and proclamation. Yes. In my experience the government is happy with "looks g

> This is truly in accordance with european values, where we reward participation and proclamation. Yes. In my experience the government is happy with "looks good doesn't work" as long as it truly looks good.

bee_rider 2y ago
Thank goodness we have startup culture in the US, instead we can have “looks bad, doesn’t work, but Microsoft bought it so…”
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
  and "actively erodes human community and democratic society"
  - TeMPOraL 2y ago
    That's the ones that don't get bought. Unicorns are carnivores that prey on the people.
- aubanel 2y ago
  Microsoft is certainly much better at judging the value of a software than any european administration.
  - bee_rider 2y ago
    I dunno, every software product I use in the US has been getting worse over time. Even if Europe is doing nothing, at least they aren’t accelerating in the negative direction.
  - amarcheschi 2y ago
    Of all the software companies, Microsoft really makes me feel the ick every time I have to interact with their suite. I started using again teams after months and I didn't remember it was so bad, it's like a reverse course on ux
    - aubanel 2y ago
      Then please switch for a product made by the EU. Call me when you've read through 300 pages of documentation to discover there was no product.
FranzFerdiNaN 2y ago
Lol yeah unlike corporationd who are happy with “makes life intentionally worse but brings in money”. Jesus the ideology in this place runs so thick with some people.
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- solid_fuel 2y ago
  It’s truly absurd the ways some people here twist logic. “Government did it” means it MUST be bad, of course. It takes a willful ignorance, pretending that all government efforts are bad and all corporate efforts are therefore good. As if ARPAnet just sprang from a group of MBAs sitting around unemployed. When I read 1984 in high school, I didn’t really get the scariest bit: a lot of people are PROUD to shout that 2 + 2 = 5 as long as it makes a poor person somewhere else sad.

bee_rider 2y ago

Thank goodness we have startup culture in the US, instead we can have “looks bad, doesn’t work, but Microsoft bought it so…”

HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
and "actively erodes human community and democratic society"
- TeMPOraL 2y ago
  That's the ones that don't get bought. Unicorns are carnivores that prey on the people.
aubanel 2y ago
Microsoft is certainly much better at judging the value of a software than any european administration.
- bee_rider 2y ago
  I dunno, every software product I use in the US has been getting worse over time. Even if Europe is doing nothing, at least they aren’t accelerating in the negative direction.
- amarcheschi 2y ago
  Of all the software companies, Microsoft really makes me feel the ick every time I have to interact with their suite. I started using again teams after months and I didn't remember it was so bad, it's like a reverse course on ux
  - aubanel 2y ago
    Then please switch for a product made by the EU. Call me when you've read through 300 pages of documentation to discover there was no product.

FranzFerdiNaN 2y ago

Lol yeah unlike corporationd who are happy with “makes life intentionally worse but brings in money”. Jesus the ideology in this place runs so thick with some people.

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solid_fuel 2y ago
It’s truly absurd the ways some people here twist logic. “Government did it” means it MUST be bad, of course. It takes a willful ignorance, pretending that all government efforts are bad and all corporate efforts are therefore good. As if ARPAnet just sprang from a group of MBAs sitting around unemployed. When I read 1984 in high school, I didn’t really get the scariest bit: a lot of people are PROUD to shout that 2 + 2 = 5 as long as it makes a poor person somewhere else sad.