[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

We are slowly turning ourselves into Krikkit.

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

That was always part of the enshittification formula. The final stage after exploiting users is to exploit business customers to the breaking point.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

I'll believe that if his plan is to unify humanity under his rule.

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gulf War: 1990-1991

Idiocracy: 2006

You may be thinking of the sequel, Gulf War II

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

The problem is all the other people voting the wrong way with their bigger wallets.

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

It could depend on time-of-day browsing habits. I've noticed NSFW stuff tends to appear more during the night time for the US and Europe. It's still a small minority of posts overall, though, and I don't click them enough to observe any trend in proportion of hentai in particular.

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

It opens a separate session in the browser and prevents saving any cookies, history or other state locally when you close it. Doesn't change a blessed thing on the other end of the connection.

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He didn’t want to buy the company. So, he’s turning it into a pet project.

That's a good point, and one that had not occurred to me. For all we know, he's already mentally written off the $44 billion as a loss and is just having fun with it, with no expectation of success.

That would explain a lot.

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

You don't even have to go that far back. Howard Dean's enthusiastic-but-awkward yell was such a non-issue, and it still ruined his whole campaign.

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Now that's putting the "shit" in "shitpost".

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Came for the decentralization, stayed for the nonconsensual lemon party redirects.

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