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  • Utopia

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  • Strawberries have never been machine picked.

  • I don't think he had a plan in the beginning. These people aren't pioneers. They got lucky once, get labeled as a trend setter and then you have to try and maintain that image. VR was going the next big thing, so Zuck bought a company without a plan. Tech companies do that all the time. They see themselves falling behind on something and just buy some random company to appease the shareholders/press.

    The VR office thing was just the limits of Zuck own creativity and saw covid as an opportunity to keep their product relevant.

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  • Strawberries.

  • Yes and?

    Facebook was marketing their virtual office space stuff during covid. In the infinite wisdom of Zuck, that's the best use of the tech today.

  • Zuck wasn't marketing VR to the average consumer or even the tech enthusiast. He was marketing it to middle managers who wanted to regain control of their WFH peons. During covid, those types lost a lot of control while the workers continued without much change. Now that back to the office is being forced, the target demographic isn't interested.

  • John Carmack had some choice words when he left Meta.

    "We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort. There is no way to sugar coat this; I think our organization is operating at half the effectiveness that would make me happy.

    "It has been a struggle for me. I have a voice at the highest levels here, so it feels like I should be able to move things, but I’m evidently not persuasive enough. A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it. I think my influence at the margins has been positive, but it has never been a prime mover."

    Imagine getting John Carmack on your project and ignoring him. Like, what was the point? Zuck got lucky in the beginning and was cut throat enough to hold on to it, but he has no entrepreneurial talent.

  • Brain damage turns people right wing. Never left wing. Gary Busey, Kevin Sorbo, RFK...

    Sometimes they don't shift, but they never shift left. Almost as if empathy is a brain function and without it, you turn into a prick.

  • “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”

    ― Karl Marx

  • Oh no, they told a Friend Group B joke around Friend Group A.

  • A lot of modern problems can actually be blamed on Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays.

    an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". While credited with advancing the profession of public relations, his techniques have been criticized for manipulating public opinion, often in ways that undermined individual autonomy and democratic values.

  • They should just become a contributor to Heroic.

  • Work will set you free.

  • You think ICE cares? You think ICE even understands that?

  • No kidding.

    Vanity Fair, By Marie Brenner, September 1, 1990, https://archive.is/OQYan

    Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

  • You don't get "charged" for hate on Social Media.

    Are you talking about them someone famous says something bigoted and that gets shared around?

    Or are you talking about when someone commits a crime in their legal system and that crime is motivated by bigotry?

  • Hmm. A person disinterested in human beings?

  • Linux Questions @lemmy.zip

    Software suggestions for a youth stem group?

  • Mental Health @lemmy.world

    My best and most important years have been wasted because of lies.

  • Anime @ani.social

    Ghost Stories the Anime with Monica Rial

  • Linux @lemmy.world

    What is a good linux tech support community on Lemmy?

  • NonCredibleDefense @sh.itjust.works

    Exclusive footage of the Russian ammo depot attack.

  • Videos @lemmy.world

    Ask A Ninja Omnibus What Year Is This?

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world

    The Connectix Virtual Game Station was commercial PS1 emulation software released for Classic Mac OS and Windows in 1999.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Connectix_Virtual_Game_Station
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    The story of Pacific Tech's Graphing Calculator for the PowerPC Macs.

    www.pacifict.com /story/
  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world

    Community college is a joke and shouldn't preclude entering a 4year as a Freshman.

  • Gardening @lemmy.world

    What exactly are the "mini sweet peppers" that grocery stores sell?

    us.amazon.com /Fresh-Brand-Sweet-Mini-Peppers/dp/B086WWPJ86