DaddleDew @ DaddleDew @lemmy.world

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So you're saying the audience for the ads have the people who are willing to pay for stuff, the very people the advertisers are paying to reach, removed from it.

I wonder how much longer this will go before the advertisers catch on to that.

The NYPD's working theory of what pistol was used doesn't even make sense either. These cops are clueless.

As far as I know, the worst type of pasta that exists is the long macaroni. They're awkward to eat and you can't slurp then in like spaghetti because the hole in the middle lets air through.

sad kazoo music

Trying to hype up investors, yes! It's exactly why we keep seeing features that nobody wants in goods and services nowadays.

Capitalism is supposed to maximize efficiency and do everything it can to make the consumers happy. But we have reached a point where the "meta" isn't that anymore. It really never was, really. But with corporations becoming so big they dominate world markets, it has become complety shameless about it.

That explains why Doom 3's shading looked so bad

Somehow I find the mental image of a coin-operated anesthetics machine that you wake-up mid-surgery to put more coins in hilarious in a dark way.

Hey, when he died, he did leave behind a better world.

A lot of them aren't even real military members but civilians posing as them for a staged video.

That one is obviously one of those

Just pointing out that had it been an average Joe who got assassinated and we had a clear picture of the killer's face we wouldn't even have heard about it on the news. Now they want everyone to look for him.

“The people in our industry are mission-driven professionals working to make coverage and care as affordable as possible"

That $358 Billion profit they've registered in 2023 says a lot about how much all those "efficiency" savings are being passed to their customers.

I mean, once you've figured out how to play music in someone's mind, it's only a matter of time before you figure out what parts of the brain to activate to cause cravings, impulsive behavior or puts you in a suggestible state.

Which means ads can also be streamed. Heck no.

The reason they gave for the tracking of their employees private communications and location even when not at work is "health and safety reasons".

"This is for your protection" seems to be the go-to corporate bad faith argument these days.

This reminds me of that quote from Mass Effect:

"This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight! Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class Dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means: Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space! (...) I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty! Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going 'till it hits something! That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime!"

In Stargate SG1 they do that to destroy and invading alien ship approaching Earth.

He kept boasting that it was "bullet proof". Meanwhile I could easily imagine the engineers in the back really badly hoping he would shut up about that because they understood the gravity of the costs and compromises that would have been required to actually make this car bulletproof

Guess what, turns out it's not bullet proof after all. What a shocker.

That's the thing. Design implies engineering decisions. Decisions requiring huge amounts of expertise, talent and work. All Musk did is get in front of his lead engineers, handed a crudely drawn triangle on a piece of paper and said "It must look like this, make it happen". He did the easiest 0.001% part of the job of coming up with an idea for something that he thought looked cool and the rest was done by people who are far more intelligent and talented than him. And yet he is the one giving himself all the credit for it. This undeserved self-praise, stealing of credit (and wages) from other people's work and the sheer arrogant intellectual dishonesty of believing that he is as smart and hard working as those people who are actually making things happen is why I can't stand Musk.

The fact that the Cybertruck is a stupidly flawed, barely functional monstrosity with tons of production issues and insane price tag are side effects of all the compromises that had to be done to fulfill Musk's demands. It is literally Musk's equivalent of The Homer car from the Simpsons.

Musk is only good at one thing, which is play investors like violins to generate hype and secure more investments for the company. The rest of the company's success is owed to the extremely competent and talented engineers and workers making those extremely ambitious projects a reality.

Every time Musk tries to pretend he's an engineer and tries to micromanage engineering and design decisions we end up with things like the Cybertruck.

I'm going to keep repeating it until it becomes common knowledge: When Musk stole the company from its original founders in a board coup, he specifically demanded that the cars have flush-fitting door handles despite his engineer's objections. Reinventing the door handles was excessively time and cost prohibitive because of the crash safety requirements involved but Musk would hear none of it. And it was. It nearly bankrupted the company early on and it was only saved by government grants from the Obama days.

That's something I don't get. The amount of work and change required to make Mars livable for humans is insane and we still don't even know if it is possible. The amount of change required to fix our planet's climate is minuscule in comparison. They want to terraform a planet that is completely hostile to human life and yet we can't even get our own planet's average temperature down by 1 degree.