Commenting/making posts has always required an account of some sort, at least as far back as I can remember. Maybe the IRC days you just needed a name

Google is paying something around $60m a year for AI training on reddit content

So that’s gonna be helpful lol

Made a legally binding decision to massively overpay what the company was worth, or probably ever would be. Of course the current owners are going to take it

Like what Cambridge Analytica did?

It’s basically the cable TV model just with more steps

Need like 5+ services you pay $5-20 a month to instead of one you pay $75 to (numbers made up)

Apparently when cable first came to be, there were no ads

How do you have worse aerodynamics than two bricks stacked on top of each other

Stock buybacks should be made illegal (well, just don’t allow them) again.

“our company only made 19 billion, we expected to make 19.1 billion, we are not sure how we are going to survive this”

Sometimes you have a product that’s a loss leader to hold marketshare instead

I can’t imagine adblockers are really that big of a deal, it’s just Google trying to get revenue off the 0.1% of people who use them

How VW, one of/the largest car manufacturers in the world, turns out the overpriced shit EVs it does, yeah… No wonder people are looking elsewhere

Covid also really did a number on the car market (like so many others), probably take another 2-4 years before the used market gets anywhere back to normal.

Capitalism demands perpetual and unlimited growth forever

Taylor Swift seems to be doing a good job with that.

Didn’t she get like 150k people to register in a day with an Instagram story or something

Iphones have fast charging now?

If we can fix some gerrymanders it’ll go a long way also

Like the shitshow that is the maps in WI, which will head to the (now) liberal controlled state Supreme Court.

If IBM actually manages to convert COBOL into Java like they’re advertising, they’ll end up killing their own cash cow

So much still runs on COBOL

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Seriously though, OW was my favorite fps in a long time, and I dislike what Blizzard has done for it

Musk deadnames his own child

Almost all these companies run on an annual schedule where the price will keep going up until you hit the “standard” rate.

Gotta call and threaten to cancel (or actually cancel) to get it back down

Weird to think that $500million is a fraction of a percent for apple