sirdorius

There were a bunch of stories of Republicans helping Cornel West's campaign last year to act as a spoiler.

https://apnews.com/article/ballot-deception-cornel-west-conservatives-0d2c94da68bbd136442e63edadf14398

Does a writefreely instance appear on lemmy as a community with posts written by the author? That would be so cool, and would go in the right direction of integrating different kinds of social media in one client.

Let's make a community powered, open source project to do this and watch them squirm when investors demand that million dollar CEOs get replaced with AI for higher investor returns.

It's a funny story because Ford was suspecting them of building a rival car company so he wasn't doing it entirely out of altruistic pursuits. He wanted to them to get lower profits from their Ford investments. Whenever you think capitalists have reached the peak of greed, they truly innovate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

This only strikes us plebes when we find out about it. It is common knowledge in economist circles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_primacy

The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits: a company has no social responsibility to the public or society; its only responsibility is to its shareholders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine

This has only been recently challenged as a PR attempt to rebrand it into "stakeholder capitalism"

Also, not related but equally horrifying: in macroeconomics there is a target of unemployment of around 5%, aka full employment is to be avoided: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAIRU

Wow, 10 years is still pretty young! Most of the other consolidated languages are at least 30 years old. Will be interesting to see how this project evolves.

I've known a few people like this in real life, but they are usually quickly excluded from social circles as they get quite tiresome. But online they can just continue doing it, especially if it's not bad enough to warrant a ban.

set up your VS code extensions to ensure clean code

Meanwhile, my VS code extensions:

Looking forward to C# in web exports. C# support has been borked ever since 4.0 released 2+ years ago.

Stop spamming this shit. A "censorship resistant" 4chan that runs like ass with some crypto scam embedded is not exactly appealing.

lol... apparently even the hype bots got fed up with plebbit: https://programming.dev/post/30153892

Thanks!

Very nice, I love your style! Obligatory "what brushes are you using?" question