Profits are higher than ever, but line must go up so you’re all fired.

Imagine pretending you don’t understand the value of PR and propaganda in a war.

The question is whether she resigned or was fired as well. Her job was to protect the company, which includes not firing productive staff.

Yeah, it sucks that we live in a world where we have to fight fascism.

Do it anyways.

TikTok had $18b in revenue last year.

They’re not going to cease operating. They’re going to spend $17b on lawyers.

There’s a reason you couldn’t actually talk about the ARPU, and that’s because an American user is worth literally 7x more than a Chinese user on average. Which is why TikTok had a revenue of 16.1b in 2023, with a growing user base, and ByteDance’s total revenue was 40.8b.

Depends on intent, motivation, and the level of negligence. Literally, there’s a sliding scale.

HIPAA violations can come with jail time btw

Unless you’re only a person when it comes to bribing Congress

Bullshit, they’re bluffing at best.

Average revenue per user is a pretty common industry benchmark, and the US absolutely slaughters the rest of the world. We’re the fat, dumb, brainwashed cows the advertisers can’t get enough of.

Is that really justified, or an example of selection bias?

Does it matter to a shareholder?

The craziest thing is it was already overvalued, Elon got “forced” into selling at peak, and then tanked the company he bought with it too. Just unreal clown behavior.

Seems more like he’s combining it with a quote:

“Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyways.”

Space X which he owns a controlling stake in, unlike Tesla.

It’s a pretty horrifying article tbh. The assumptions and conclusions it’s making if you just start asking yourself how you actually save that energy should be obvious.

Rock technology and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Sorry, best we can do is servitors and Cherubs.

This is the part of the decentralized “Gig economy” model that no one seems to have a good answer for, how do you filter out bad actors or even known threats without an organization calling the shots?

I think the answer is pretty simple, honestly. Have an organization whose purpose is just to filter out bad actors and maintain the technology. Just don’t be greedy or heirarchal about it. The tech staff gets paid from a small percentage from the providers.

Should be easy, right? Right??!?

They started as humanoids, which is not the same thing as being humans.

(But they were the sci-fi trope of aliens being blue humans)

That’s what their marketing team decided to say.

Then they decided to pay people for activity.

Another 30% is just Nazi posting.

I tried reading a selection of some male-targeted romance/erotica once. About a quarter of it was genuinely good, half of it just hated women, and the remainder was like “she was hot and had huge boobs.” Those last two were 50/50 themselves on whether I believed the author had ever touched a boob. Less if you only count consensually. And obviously harems were just fucking everywhere and personality beyond breast size was optional.

It occurs to me I never read any gay/bi romance, maybe it’s better over there, but the point is:

I understand your viewpoint, at least in regards to some extreme kinks, but pls no

I think they were going for a “it’s always been trash” angle