I just realized while walking my dog today that a new hard line for me with Democrats is that if you accept corporate / billionaire PAC donations, I'm not donating to your campaign.
I cannot continue to pretend like you will actually give a fuck about my interests when you got into office using mostly money from sources that are actively working against my interests.
I'll still vote as left as possible in both the primary and the general regardless, but I'm through giving campaign contributions to candidates where my money -- and therefore my influence -- is a drop in the bucket.
And I will seriously consider voting for just about anyone else left of him in the primary. No offense to him, he seems like a very solid dude, but the time for half-measures, centrists, and people that believe institutions will save us is well beyond over.
The infinite scroll goes hand in hand with that type of algorithm. Even if there isn't more content, some versions of the infinite scroll keep loading assorted shit you've already seen before.
It's also part and parcel of a mindset switch from looking at some content on a fixed number of pages and then moving on with your day, to pushing the screen up forever even if you've already seen most of it.
It also usually makes it so that you cannot bookmark the state, and the state often reloads fresh when you hit back and you've lost what you're looking at.
YouTube comments are almost never worth reading in the first place (top comment is usually: who is here in <
<current year>
>? 😆). I never look at the descriptions, and the only time I watch YouTube is for either music videos or concert captures or links someone has sent me. Congrats YouTube, I don't care about any of the features you turned off.
The days of having arguments with Internet strangers and knowing they aren't a bot are officially over. It's hard to tell exactly when the period ended, but it's definitely done now.
Lots of them have fiduciary duties, meaning they’re legally prohibited from doing anything that doesn’t maximize the value of the stock from moment to moment.
Overall, I agree with you that stock price is their motivation, but the notion of shareholder supremacy binding their hands and preventing them from doing things that they want to otherwise do is incorrect. For one, they aren't actually mandated to do this by law, and secondarily, even if they were -- which to reiterate, they aren't -- just about any action they take on any single issue can be portrayed as them attempting to maximize company value.
I thought about lying on my last report but decided to not. At this point they're going to have to fire me if they can't accept the truth. I'm not lying to save my skin.
Yeah, I don't get too deep into that game. I do have some higher-ish quality headphones and speakers though. I also find that subwoofers are largely underrated by audio snobs.
Not here to argue I can hear the difference, because I can't. But in audio collecting where the size and burden of even large lossless files isn't much different from lossy files, why care? I download the flac files and compress upon delivery to the client where the space might be of a larger concern.
I hate it, but it's not a bad way to crowd out the competition over time, Idiocracy style.