Hahahaha. God they really are so fucking stupid.

Like I love how nobody seems to question the expertise of CEOs. Like, I know the board structure, they consult experts and make decisions. That makes sense (I mean it has problems but it makes sense). But if you’re choosing a CEO for a Telecoms company, and the last job he did was being the CEO of a successful kitchenware company, I’m gonna question the degree to which this person can do their job well. There are so many CEOs who seem completely disconnected from the company they are in charge of.

Ask not what an android needs with a buttcrack, ask instead what you need with that buttcrack.

This pessimism is neither useful nor necessary.

Whaaat. I never knew Eno made the Windows 95 start up sounds.

Good on him.

Ridiculous. What other has been or would ever be afforded such preferential treatment by the US?

So how does this work? Like how did they get those messages through API calls? Also, is this not something that Discord would dislike since it dilutes the value of their data horde?

Dopamine Deficit Disorder is one I like since it gets to the root cause. Also DDD is kewl.

Ooooh. I had a feeling this was a thing. Got here via another post and was just blown away by how bad this take was.

Clot me up!

What is pectin anyway?

Using DoomLinux to mess with someone would be hilarious. Plug the USB into the back of their computer then alter the boot order so it prioritises USB. Each time they start their computer it boots into DOOM.

Is porky the actual name for this character?

Can confirm. We do this all the time. It’s because in Irish culture if you tell people you wanna go they’ll try to get you to stay out for another round (ad infinitum) so people just bail and then message to say they had a great night and went home.

Thats okay I love them both. But not equally. (Don’t tell Python).

I get it. But, like Peertube is kinda limited. At least when I was using it, which was pretty recently. I’ll check out Odysee.

Riiight. Id like to learn more about Dodge; I’m gomna check if there’s a Ken Bursesque History of Dodge documentary.

Edit: there is no such documentary.

Edit 2: But there is a fairly decent one.

Ford owed them dividends since they had shares from when they worked for him. And the Dodge Bros asked for these dividends but Ford basically already spent it on cutting wages, building factories, lower the price of cars, kissing puppies etc. All of which, as you may have noticed, is shit that investors (i.e. the Dodge Bros) hate in the short term, while, of course, expanding his business in the long term. Ford had a plan to buy them out, ya see. And, honestly, I can understand why they took him to court for that. Cuz he purposely made decisions that went against their interests as investors because they were his competitor. And the Dodge Bros, they’re not some pampered plutocrats, they came from a fairly impoverished backround - the details of which I won’t bore you with, as they are the same as every other rags to riches Americana. Though I do think its worth mentioning that they were not initially accepted among the social elite as they would drink beers and roughhouse with the men.¹

All of this is very interesting, but it kind of muddies the water in terms of serving as an example of greedy investors forcing the corporate hand. But what if the hand that guides the corporate hand is not the investors’ but the invisible hand of the market?² And the Dodge Bros and Ford are just puppets to the invisible hand³ as it guides them along with a relationship to the wellbeing of actual humans⁴ that could be characterised as arbitrary at best and malicious at worst. Maybe that’s the lesson here.

That and that Henry Ford is a scary motherfucker.

1. Which is, I suppose, another rags to riches Americana story, but its one that’s pretty charming, a kind of, still one of the boys attitude, a dream that you can become wealthy and not be innately corrupted by that wealth. Like the Dodge Bros eventually were.

2. Which, looking at it now, I appreciate is a contrived metaphor, but it sounded good in my head.

3. The invisible hand is doing one of those Godfather cover art pupeteer with strings and shit. They’re not sock puppets. I did consider making a fist-of-capitalism-up-your-ass joke here but it sidetracks the issue a bit, and its a bit sexist/kink shamey.

4. And plants and trees and animals.

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ please explain

You know. I feel like its a bit obvious to say but a system where corporations are operated top-down by a group of individuals whose only interest is the profitability of said corporation with little to no consideration in other aspects of the corporation (the employees for one) is a pretty bad system. I remember reading that Henry Ford wanted to drop the price of the Model T to make it even more of an everyman car. Two of his top investors took him to court over it. This isn’t to say Ford was some sort of paragon; but it strikes me sometime, the degree to which the naked greed of some people pierces the capitalist veil of competitive innovation for social betterment.

Revanced.

It won’t bother me at all.

I think girls and women are often overlooked and failed by the system when it comes to ADHD and Autism. Girls and women are taught by society to fit in and not rock the boat. I think that’s why they’re better at masking; it’s a social necessity. That and the very different neurochemical makeups across the gender spectrum. Because these disorders continue to be viewed through the erroneous paradigm of ‘How well does this child fit in? How well do they perform in a classroom?’ – something which is evident in the very name of ADHD – boys and men are more likely to get caught by the system early on. Girls and women are often failed by it.