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This isn’t a logo. It’s a cry for help from a severely distressed mind.
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I got curious and did the math if $44B was denominated in $100 bills.
That’s 496.85 cubic kilometers of cash. Or a pile of money that covers half of the continental US, stacked 1/4 of the height of Low Earth Orbit.
I honestly don’t think one could physically burn that much cash since May 2022 in real life.
Edit: more mind bogglery!
The earth is ~40,000 km in circumference, so you could stack the bills almost 28m high around the equator (or circle the globe 256,482 times.)
I love revisiting comments like these every 4 years.
Are you saying “crassholes” or “assholes”
Then why are they even still there?
Sunk cost fallacy or misplaced hope are other options outside of Napoleon complex.
And it feels so good! I hated how breaking in to the mobi files wrecked the formatting.
Sys admins are already worked to death, so anything that can be done to simplify makes perfect sense.
Appreciate the correction! I haven’t dealt with Amazon for e-books since I got my first Kobo reader 5-6 years ago, so I’m out of the loop.
Which is why it boggles my mind that every company I have worked for uses it as the stock alternative to Edge over Firefox.
Kobo consistently makes better products overall, but the ability to avoid Amazon (and the nonsense that comes from their proprietary format) is priceless.
Bingo. Enshittification is mostly confined to companies that have gone public or whose sole aspiration is to do so quickly.
It shifts responsibility from satisfying customers/users to satisfying shareholders (who are never satisfied).
You can build the perfect product and ride a gravy train as a private company in relative perpetuity. As a corporation, you’re just going to strive for perpetually increasing profits on a quarterly basis with no real care or focus past that
Eh… It has its place (especially if dude is going to set me up like that), and can be ignored if it’s not your cup of tea.
Prurient banter has been a part of online forums since BBS message boards. It’s how most people I know communicate IRL and online: Bullshit, bullshit, nugget of wisdom, picture of cat.
Not everything needs to be THUPER THERIAL, but it can be (and has frequently been) overdone because a lot of people don’t realize that self-censorship is a hammer to be swung heavily.
The insidious thing about algorithmically served content is that even if you don’t pay attention to it, it will slowly seep in to your mind, altering you slowly and steadily.
You see it/hear it for a microsecond and divert your attention dutifully, but your mind captured it, and processes it continuously. Because that’s what minds do.
So here you are, just scrolling through things. Minding your own business. And you didn’t even register it consciously.
And now you’re forever infected with a thought, concept you would have never arrived at on your own. A vision you would never have seen. A motive that never would’ve occurred.
And no matter what it was, you’re stuck with it forever because some asshole forced it into your head for a couple pennies.
It’s pure evil.
Because we will never reach a billion users and exist for 200 years like yo momma.
Current models waste space, weight, and durability by including an “off” button.
I love comparing apples to orangutans. Really paints a clear picture.
I like to commit crimes while screaming that I’m committing crimes.
It makes the crimes more obvious so that everyone knows I’m committing crimes.
Can’t just have a royal rumble. You’re going to need to iterate ALL of the flavors into factions if you want a war.
I vote everyone vs Arch (btw)