The username is the joke.
I’m not putting in more effort than you clowns unless I feel like it lol
Not just putin, the oil companies that have been financing the GOP too. Plus the military industrial complex.
The whole thing has money written all over it. They don’t give a shit about lives. They aren’t worried about nukes no matter how much they want to prop up that straw man.
They won’t rest until they own it all and we all work for nothing.
They take sceenshots and use ml to summarize segments of activity probably
Clearly my user story about my experience is completely invalid as a factor. Good to know.
Congrats, i’m glad you like it and doesn’t give you the issues it gave me.
The headset I bought was the original HTC Vive, which was $800 at the time which adjusted for inflation would probably be close to $1500 today. At the time had a 1080ti which was the fastest gpu. I spared no expense, did drill in wall mounting and the whole nine yards, and devoted an entire room to it. Total waste of time, but glad I tried it to realize just how bad it was for me.
Zero practical consequence or effect here.
Windfarms produce clean energy with minimal environmental impact and cost.
VR headsets… don’t quite have the same kind of impact. You can easily spend $2000-$3000 and find that your purchase is not at all what you envisioned.
Windmills are exactly what they look like, cheap energy machines that will lower our total cost of energy and reliance on burning substances that people are literally killing each other over, including the current war partially to raise prices for the venezuelan spoils to make investment sense.
Ah yes, all those glasses people made for each and every car they ever drove! That was so inconvenient!
And the deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning just by driving early cars! OH MY GOD SO MANY DEAD. BILLIONS! more than have ever died before!
Cars didn’t give people migraines or require custom lenses to use.
They also get you from point A to point B and without them you had no other choices beyond a horse, bicycle or paying someone else to produce something.
VR gives you a headset you have to wear that is uncomfortable and the end result is that you see the game you’re playing on the screen in front of you.
We already have screens in front of us that we play games on.
This is more like a motorcycle in America. Nobody uses them really, so you have to really commit to it to get use out of it. There’s loads of downsides and the upsides is that it can be fun from time to time. They can technically take you from point a to point b, but odds are you’re gonna want something with walls and a roof when weather sucks or when you need to do something serious like haul some supplies for a home project. Just like how certain things are just better with a mouse and keyboard or with a controller.
Your car analogy fits computers or smartphones better. We already have those, so an accessory computing thing is a frivolous add on for most anything you’d want to do with it, but it can be fun if it works for you. Sure, in Asian countries bikes are cheaper and more common so everything is more suitable to them, but I suspect they will never catch on here to the same degree…. Like VR.
I knew VR would never pan out.
It needs expensive special equipment in the form of a headset that has no other use.
You need expensive powerful graphics hardware for good quality.
You need more special equipment if you wear glasses. Prescription lenses just for the goggles that are not used anywhere else.
It causes headaches, migraines and dizziness.
You need wide open space to utilize it.
I bought and returned a headset at the Microsoft store and am so glad I got that money back.
Just pull backups from the DOGE guys.
It’s an excuse to hire your buddies to do work to renovate or build a new stadium with taxpayer money. Privatized profits that are guaranteed for who is picked and these big construction outfits already have close ties to whoever is running the city anyway.
Then you probably end up with free tickets to bring your whole family if you are into it…
Corruption is everywhere transparency and accountability is not. I’ve yet to see a transparent governance model in use.
Even if it’s put in writing, you’d need to sue them and go to discovery and then you’re relying on an IT team to “find xyz” from a request made by legal for discovery.
The odds of anyone ever pulling this off is nearly impossible, especially when the ones laid off all have to sign an indemnity clause against the company for that severance paycheck which says you won’t sue and will defend them in lawsuits in perpetuity. It would have to be one of the c-suite members in the meeting with written evidence, and the second you sue over that you’re blacklisted from ever getting an executive level role again.
Nothing can be done to change the public’s perceptions of their past and ongoing atrocities since 2023.
The ones who support them are either ignorant of reality or bought and paid for.
That’s not how the conversation goes though.
Right now the conversation is mostly like “we need to cut costs to hit increased shareholder returns so I (the CEO) get my full bonus (which yours is similarly tied to), what are our options to not pay out severance?” Which the CHRO comes back with “RTO policies are great at cutting XX% and we will only have to hire back X% of roles and pay less for those roles and pay less for severance. We can also announce this is due to AI efficiencies and not poor revenue growth and get a bump to the shares we’ve already gotten from past compensation and make the board happy instead of seeing the typical drop in valuation associated with layoffs.”
It’s that simple.
Then there’s a handful of cases like my boss where they are enraged by WFH policies because he is incompetent (has been fired from past middle manager role for being inflexible and ineffective) and highly conservative. His measurement of performance is if your ass is in a chair or not, which doesn’t do much for a team’s performance which is why he has a job. He has been crusading to end remote work policies for all other fully remote departments to limited effect but has succeeded in getting a 1 day per week from his boss’ other teams.
You can’t tell me that every single one of the regulatory decisions by this administration that allowed a company to do something or benefitted an individual, company or industry were not the direct result of a literal bribe.
Pardons are an excellent example, aside from the J6ers. That was entirely PR for their wacko base. All those crypto bros convicted of shit that they pled guilty to? Come fucking on.
All the drug price regulations where they were going to negotiate ‘favored pricing’ have resulted in exemptions for the most profitable drugs for years - likely until the patents were going to fall off and they would be fucked by generics anyway. This is 100% pay to play. Give them a cut and you can fuck over the not-0.1% american people all day long, no matter what their political background is.
FCC later:
We’ve reviewed the ownership and can find no problems after receiving a hefty bribe.
That’s a lot of potatoes and moisture.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, now they will literally have performance metrics for all employees. Prepare to see non-executive white collar jobs turn into minimum wage slogfests where you’re pruned if even 10% of your time is idle.
Only 10%? earnings must be increasing faster than ever.
Morons or masters of revenue?
We all hate it, but for every one of us who will cancel there’s ten more who will just keep paying no matter how bad it gets.
Just takes one show and a lack of motivation to self host a solution, and these companies own every popular show and nearly the entire pipeline of creation.
Advertisements work so well everybody is trying to put them everywhere to make more money. It’s just that simple. Reddit is effectively full vertical video and photo content if you browse the site without logging in, because a few second video format is enough to slip in a quick ad without triggering people as much as a long format ad does, like infomercials of yore.
If we want the ads gone we need to regulate them away.