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To me this is a mirror to the problems, I have seen with my generations parents who grew up on "Fairness Doctrine" media. They were used to fair and balanced Walter Kronkite who by law was required to present untainted news. Many
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Sure, it's the phones... not the non-stop barrage of psychological manipulation from the ad driven capitalist hellscape we have created that poison their underdeveloped minds in everything they interact with from websites to games to T
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This is nothing more than a back door farming subsidy which is also why it's so hard to kill.
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And sexy dwarfs, too many sexy dwarfs.
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Dahl edited his own works in future editions. The 1964 Oompa Loompas were wildly racist caricatures that he was forced to eventually step back from. https://groovyhistory.com/oompa-loompas-the-original-ones There are a lot
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> I want a world where every kid can make their own Star Wars or Princess Mononoke and create more than Scorsese's entire career within a single year. Rad goal. Good luck as someone who consumes more YouTube than mainstream content.
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> the chatgpt garbagisation of the web Eh... it's already started on YouTube. There's a whole new genre of movie content that has chatgpt summarize the movie while they play 15 minutes of clips. It's higher effort garbagi
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The also tried to make The Hobbit the Lord of the Rings when they are complete different in tone and style. I wish we got to see Guillermo's version. The Hobbit also had the fingers of 4 or 5 studios in it.
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FACTS but forcing it into the courts is a good start
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If we don't continue apartheid, where will we get billionaires to buy social media companies and run them into the ground as a political stunt?
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Also, supporting candidates who refuse corporate and PAC money
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Like the women from Dallas who challenged that she wasn't driving alone in the car pool lane because she was pregnant. Malicious Compliance. It opens a whole can of worms they weren't prepared for.
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This just scratches the surface on the injustice in the US legal and jail system.
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Everything in the US is a monopoly now, everything. Market correction requires a free and open market which doesn't exist.
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After watching the oil companies rake everyone over the coals why wouldn't every greed board abuse consumers. We have no consumer protections and half of our legislative branch is filled with obstructionist who have no interest in help
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With any luck, this is the start of winning back our city centers from megacorp logos.
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My MIL just moved into a 55+ living community in a converted Hilton.
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When you make $213 million a year, you need to add some extra words to show the value you add.
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> It’s the same in my case - I decided, quite a few years ago, that chasing status was a sucker’s game, and stopped buying crap that signalled status. I have friends who make over $200k in affordable areas that constantly complain about
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As a Genxer for my wife and I the thing that helped the most in getting off the consumerism cycle was abandoning all commercial television, paying for commercial free services, and cranking up the ad blockers. The constant barrage of psycho
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“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars.
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No, I don't believe it. Corporate media owned by giant conglomerates is untrustworthy.
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The gap between the needed software engineers and the available engineers if anything is growing. There are jobs everywhere in the mid-level companies. The actions of these giant monopolies are not a reflection on the career of software eng
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It's not just SEO and bots. It's deliberate choice in how they develop the application and what features they are adding. Every feature they have added in the last few years has been user hostile.
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I'll take a look. Thanks.
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Google search has been going the way of Yahoo, Alta Vista, Excite, Hotbot... for a while. More junk results, more paid junk content, more work flow breaking changes, can't copy, copy a url returns a google nightmare soup url, etc...les
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Back in the long long ago, I worked in a call center and we doubled the staff. It was a lot of of work, training, equipment, leadership, realignment of L2... it was still a lot.
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This is one of the layoffs where I go... yeah you really did over hire WTF were you thinking. How do you even effectively onboard that many people as a percentage of existing staff?
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It's not as applicable to music but I have DVD/Blueray rips from 10 years ago that look like dogshit now that would necessitate a re-rip from original. If you download it and it's later removed from from that platform now you
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There are certainly ways to do it and we as the technical elite have all the skill sets required to do so but for the majority of users on these platforms who don't want to or aren't technically capable, it's a long term rent

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