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No one can tell for certain, but it does seem like he’s been huffing his own farts so hard he figured he could win this.
No one can tell for certain, but it does seem like he’s been huffing his own farts so hard he figured he could win this.
Nice socks! Where’s a good place to find quality socks of this style?
Says the Russian bot that’s russianboting all over Lemmy all day every day. Aren’t you paid to be more subtle than that?
Yeah, what a loss. Now it will only be able to suggest glue on burgers. /s
Astounding, isn’t it? That’s publicly traded companies for you. The company’s objective is to keep its stock up and up and up. That means shareholders must want to keep buying the stock, which in turn means that the company must demonstrate that its value will keep growing, so that by buying the stock today the shareholders will get a positive return tomorrow.
Of course, the universe is finite and no growth is forever. The end state for such companies is not bankruptcy, at least in the immediate, but, more or less, the IBM fate: a previously uber-dominant mastodon whose market capitalization is now worth maybe one tenth of its modern competitors. The fact that it’s still turning a profit is only secondary: none of the big tech shops want to be the next IBM. Their executives are, after all, mostly paid in stocks.
And that’s how you end up with companies that are making amounts of revenue you and I can’t even comprehend flail in a panic like they’re on the edge of the precipice whenever the technological landscape shifts.
It’s both fascinating and remarkably dumb.
When investors shut off the AI money faucet. No sooner, no later.
By god, may that happen soon.
The Spathi warplane is coming along nicely.
Yes it does, yes it’s brilliant!
I am highly doubtful trump would be worse.
Lol.
Presumably the My Little Pony comic. I haven’t read it but I understand it likes putting in references that will amuse adults.
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted. This is a very valid and interesting point. Durable improvements are systemic, not individual, and the drive to look for heroes leads to nasty places.
Everypony.
An oft overlooked option that leaves no one indifferent.
“Oh, ta gueule.”
Oh, shut the fuck up. It’s really crude language. Which makes it even funnier.
Well! Thank you for being a good sport about it. :)
Yeah, definitely the vibe has changed. It’s kind of sad.
Google has literally been reporting billions of net profit every quarter.
This is about appeasing shareholders. The capitalist class hates that tech employees have been able to command decent salaries and has been striving to push back for a while now.
Looks like an encoding problem, not a font problem. Make sure your terminal is configured to use the UTF-8 encoding.
One might surmise that the people doing the electing and the people doing the protesting are not in fact the same people.
On évite le pire ce coup-ci. Pour le coup, on a le droit de prendre 5 minutes pour célébrer.
Ensuite il sera temps de se remettre au travail. On a pas le fion sorti de l’ornière, et il y a du chemin à faire.