[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

That's a very elaborate way to spell "leeches".

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

We are slowly turning ourselves into Krikkit.

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Also worth mentioning, in addition to those things, the relatively recently discovered oil and gas deposits in Ukraine, much of which is off the coast. Before the first invasion (where they took Crimea), Ukraine was getting ready to tap into that and compete with Russia for western energy money.

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months 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 19 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 29 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 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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

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