That's a really big rug they put in there. Would be a shame to everyone else if they were to pull it out suddenly.

Money corrupts absolutely everything: science, politics, people...

Unfortunately advertising doesn't work on the majority of their users who are bots. 🤷

I'm so glad the blue check marks are working as intended to combat bots and boost real voices. /s

We won't need guillotines if we can just make it trendy for billionaires to do dumb shit like this. 👍

Have they tried not using it? 🤦

Oh, like the time in 2009 when the US government gave $81 billion dollars to the automotive industry? Or again in 2023 when Biden put $12 billion in incentives on the table for them to make EVs?

Everyone: Don't say anything sensitive or personal to an AI because it could end up in training data!

Microsoft: We're making it easier to feed everything you do on your computer to an AI from notepad to your desktop!

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The changes that lead to the protest were only the preparations for an IPO. When that sale actually happens, I think things will get even worse with new corporate interests and influence. This story isn't over.

It seems like "parental rights" is the new strategy that far right radicals are using to erode personal rights and freedoms. Up here in Canada they're using it to force gender non-conforming children to be outted to their parents by their schools, and even acknowledge the violation to the rights of children through the use of the notwithstanding clause: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-bill-137-notwithstanding-clause-1.6993335

Your comment to keep politics out of hockey is also political, so you should delete it or accept your own hypocrisy.

Sunk cost falacy: The game! 😂