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> I'm not a full time content creator so again maybe that factors into the mentality - but I honestly don't understand why so many people seem to believe that their content not doing well by some arbitrary standard means some f
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Internet is very neutral in the US because major states like NY and CA have legislated strict net neutrality laws, literally making it infeasible and risky for companies to violate it. You don't know whose traffic will pass from which
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Beyond ui - for even advanced users, there is not much benefit in moving to 11 other than MSFT being able to do more data collection and upsell more services.
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Not only those - majority shareholders must always be mentioned when any company is being talked about for any reason. Shareholders should not be able to hide behind a smoke curtain while profiting from destructive corporations. Every compa
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> What is your definition of "demonize"? This: https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/china-news/21091-a-500-million-... Leading to things like this: https://i.imgur.com/2pJlIK3.jpeg > the media
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> Over the past five years of Erdogan's rule, the Turkish lira has lost 80% of its value against the USD And just in the last 2 years, inflation skyrocketed in the US and entire Europe. > Does that benefit rural people? But reall
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Before social media and the internet, this kind of 'keeping up' and 'comparing self to others' thing that afflicts the youth existed through fashion, celebrity, youth magazines. Its not new.
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> The site works if you block India especially for most things. The site works if you don't try to get anything done by paying $5/hr to anyone. I have gotten jobs done by people from India, Serbia, and other places. I just chos
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> Those mid / late career engineers are irreplaceable and yet they were actively trying to get rid of them. The famous enshittification process caused by the MBA view of existence.
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Those rural parts have been voting for Erdogan because the secular modernists who won the western parts in this election left those rural parts to poverty when they were in power for the good part of Turkey's 80 years of history. They
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Yeah. The 70s equipment that was due for decommissioning. Like the M1 Abramses that are being destroyed by drones right now. Or the Challengers. Or the Leclercs.
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> but rather accounting artifacts; That is how money disappears. Like the $3 trillion that the Pentagon 'lost' and still 'cant find'.
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> The main gas imports come from the US That gas and oil come from Russia through intermediaries like Qatar and India. When they buy them and sell them to the US, its not 'Russian' oil or gas. Its Qatari gas, Indian oil. Then t
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The recent Eu laws already turned into vehicles for using against the US in the low key Eu-US trade war that has been ongoing for a decade. Moreover, there came to being a crop of Euparl politicians who basically make their careers on these
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Well, it doesnt work like that in reality. The reality is that people scarcely shell out money for premium plugins, and that is only after using their free version enough time and then needing things from the paid version. So the freemium f
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Increasing its Russian gas purchases by over 80% after the war and exporting it to Europe may be a reason. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Spain-Tak... Another would be plunderers like Blackrock
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Name your pick. Most of the competitors of WP back in the late mid-2000s went the way of 'better coding', busying themselves with MVC implementations, migrating everything to OOP because it was 'the way' and so on. WP we
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> It simply wreaks of being a swiss cheese of security vulnerabilities once you start adding plugins The security industry in WP space is bigger than most open source spaces, comparable with Linux. If you go use plugins with a few hundre
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> I had this mindset for years. "It's not real programming. It's for people with no brain", I would tell myself. A lot of other developers share this idea, I think Yeah. I also had the same mentality until I started i
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> WordPress is too complex, too bloated, too filled with messages from plugins, too reliant on magic, too reliant on plugins to do anything advanced beyond setup a post or page. Huh? The out of the box Wordpress is everything one needs t
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> Also an interesting case: Automattic seems like a company that's set up to resist enshittification. But all those theme and plugin authors with profit motives are not, which has about the same effect as if Automattic was ruining t
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That hive of scum and freemium makes those plugins keep existing. Like in the rest of open source world, anything that cannot fund itself eventually disappears. You install a free plugin, it works great and you are happy - for a few years.
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> core technical debt These are us programmers' trappings. The users don't give two sh*ts about that. They care whether what they use is easy and it works. And Wordpress is both of them. None of the 'better coded' com
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They laid off another ~45,000 since the start of 2024 as far as I know. Likely the dumbest thing that these incumbent companies can do - they laid off entire EPDs, professionals who have a working history with each other, close links etc. I
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> Isn't this exactly what austrian business cycle theory predicts? Not exactly. That theory relies on actual economic theories that were conceived for normal situations. (and even at that, most of the economics logic is still based
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Yeah, it actually does. Societies cannot be left to the whims of privately owned payment processors that depend on the 'public sentiment' and not the actual laws to make their policies to protect their stock value. If every govern
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What's even hilarious is that those who push this ban are the same people who sanctioned everyone and their dog with the Ukraine war and caused the dollar to lose its foreign exchange currency status. Now they think that by banning Tik
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Despite all those who criticize it; Crypto. Its literally made for this purpose. You put it on the blockchain and it cannot be taken away without compromising the integrity of the chain. And even if it is done, it has to be done by forking,
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> Even the military budget is mostly payroll or operations (only 18% is procurement going to defense contractors) Not in a privatized defense environment where things are marked up 4000%. Yeah, you read that right.
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Reasons: - The zero interest economy ended due to dollar losing its uncontested foreign exchange currency position. - Now neither Fed nor private banks can print dollars and lend them with low or zero interest to constantly infuse the econo

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