The founder of Myspace retired in early thirty's after selling his company for $80 million. He travels the world and does photography. People who say they will be bored if they retire aren't being creative enough to think of doing something else.
Totally both are garbage. But from anti-colonial and anti-authoritarian perspective, US has always been garbage. Trump only removed the pretensions. I mean, Joe Biden affirmed that US will invade Holland if any Americans are arrested by the International Court there. So much for a country that purports rules based international order, if the most supreme power the world has ever seen confirmed that such rules and order don't apply to them.
Youtube has been intentionally made worse year over year for the last 12-15 years. Nobody knows exactly why. But it has been.
This is the behaviour of a monopoly. There is no better alternative so people stick with it and Google knows it. Why improve when you have no competition?
There is a study that showed workers don't mind commuting so long as the route is full of greenery and nature. That explains a lot because in my hometown, I was happy enough to commute in public transport and people are nice enough that you can chat with them. Then I moved to a bigger city, which is a concrete jungle. I hate the commute. And mind you, the public transport in my home town is about ten to twenty minutes more depending on the traffic, but I didn't mind for some reason. Then, after moving to a bigger city, travelling only for one hour feels like a long trek.
My friend works as software dev and he can attest the exact same thing. He has better ideas as a software dev, but marketing and sales people disagree and the management listens to them because all they see are numbers and money. MacNamara fallacy is epidemic in private industry.
When I think of corporate corruption, I think of cooking the books, lobbying the government, bribing, or even straight up harassment and assassination. But in this case, I don't think it's corruption. If the company has enough cash for extra perks, why the hell not.
Depends how lucky you are. There is a guy who works in upper management and he has the privilege to order new equipment for his office, which is all expenses paid by the company. He built a gaming computer complete with neon lights and four monitors right in his office.
"Honey, I will be late from work! I will be back at 3am!"
It might be more difficult to dismantle US fascism because it is oligarchic technofascism, than old school fascism. However, if there is one thing that is proven, is that eventually people rise up. Time and time again, those who come to power become too corrupt to be palatable. This has been observed since Plato's time.
That's what they are doing. I am amazed that no one from outside has yet pointed finger and warned about Heritage Foundation's attempt to influence Europe. They want to see the world burn, literally.
Even though I have reservations about US-style DEI initiatives (I'd much prefer France's way of not recording ethnicity, race, religion etc), I do find Trump admin's policies to be beyond absurd and stupid of just nuking everything.
The good news though is that fascists typically shoot themselves on the foot and end up destroying themselves because their decisions are based on emotions. There is quite literally neither rhyme nor reason. If one reads into Nazi and fascist policies and institutions, they don't make any sense whatsoever. Nazi Germany was actually on the brink of self-made bankruptcy by excessive overspending, until Hitler declared war to delay the inevitable by plundering the resources of Europe. Eventually, American fascism will just end up eating itself.
I have been meaning to mention this. Has anyone noticed that many of those who are Trump sympathisers generally talk culture wars more, but less on class issues? My colleague said he agrees with what most of Trump says, but disagrees with the extreme measures. He is opinionated on gender debate, but hardly heard him talk about the tariffs (except when the stocks tanked back in April) or the welfare cuts and transfer of wealth to the elites with the big beautiful bill.
It is the same with my ex housemate. My former housemate supports Trump because of his non-interventionist foreign policy and tougher stance on immigration. Although tbf, he had been basing his support on Trump's previous term's fascist-lite policies, and probably didn't foresee the current POTUS going full Nazi. But even then, my ex-housemate hardly talks about economic issues.
Both traditional and new media intentionally polarises and divides people, with algorithms funneling only certain information to the electorates, while hiding other pertinent info. There is overemphasis on culture wars but minimises class issues, which is the root cause of social and economic decline.
I have just read other people's comments as to why Redditors delete their comments. But even before the enshitiffication, I and others find it frustrating when comments are deleted.
Yeah, I get so pissed when people nuke their comment history. Why do that when you don't have too much of personal revealing information in that post or comment? Even one of the mods of AskHistorians expressed frustration of insightful posts and comments being deleted by OP. I did not even delete any of my posts before I deleted my Reddit account, because there are no revealing information, and I know some of my posts and comments will be helpful for others.
Get a techie to set gaming distros for you. My brother installed Bazzite for me and troubleshoots. Speaking of which, Bazzite is meant to be for average users who are less literate on computers. I have rarely had issues on Bazzite unlike with other distros. Indeed, newer distros are better.
I understand. Linux can be daunting for us average Joes. Plenty of information i see on the internet are either outdated, or simply doesn't work.
The founder of Myspace retired in early thirty's after selling his company for $80 million. He travels the world and does photography. People who say they will be bored if they retire aren't being creative enough to think of doing something else.