Nah, I wasn't saying you were wrong, I was just making a joke.

Clearly your point was correct since it was named after Mr Dna and not Watson, Crick or Franklin.

Interesting. Is there a source for this? Do you know which ad it was?

How to say you know nothing about Silicon Valley without saying you know nothing about Silicon Valley.

A legitimate question. It's easy to snidely say, "Why, are you posting from a smartphone that was invented in Silicon Valley?" and that's a legitimate response, but let's look at the question more deeply:

Historically, people have specialized into blacksmith, shepherds, farmers, etc. By and large this is a good thing, because by dividing and conquering, we can accomplish more together. (Of course, there can be problems, but by and large it's a good thing). Silicon Valley engineers are by analogy one of these specializations.

One of these specializations was "leadership," convincing people to do coordinated action, like building the pyramids or canals or other things that wouldn't exist without a strong hand forcing people to work together. I say "leadership" but somehow historically, "leadership" always meant violence, and "working together" always meant theft or slavery. If there was a surplus of grain or gold or anything, the violent leaders would swoop in and take it.

In the modern era, bureaucrats have replaced these experts in violence. Trump is severely limited in what he can do compared to King George (and every modern country's leader is the same). However, the specialists in coercion are still there, and when there is wealth on the table, they will swoop in and take it. These coercion specialists are concentrated in the banking industry and the MBA specialization. If they see something nice, or something they can exploit, they will, and the result is we can't have nice things.

And that is where enshittification comes from.

Democrats are fighting for people to have health care and food. Republicans are fighting to starve children, rape children and steal our money. There is absolutely no comparison. You're comparing the Republicans who are Nazi fascists to the Democrats who are moderately competent administrators who occasionally line their own pockets a little.

This isn't 1994. Republican party went full Nazi and never looked back. There are nothing but pedophiles and Nazis now.

Amazon has had to pay employees for the time it takes for them to go through the security process at their warehouses, as do gemstone processing facilities. This is no different. It's disappointing that these people have to waste time and money in court, once the precedent has been established enforcement should be automatic.

Heh. Just needs the proper accessory holder so you can slam the handset in a telemarketers ear.

It wasn't Silicon Valley that fucked things up, Silicon Valley just builds stuff. It was the New York bankers who come and try to squeeze the maximum profit out of everything, even at the cost of quality (or anything else).

That is when things get enshittified.

Meta has internally acknowledged that regulatory fines for scam ads are certain, and anticipates penalties of up to $1 billion...But those fines would be much smaller than Meta's revenue from scam ads, a separate document from November 2024 states. Every six months, Meta earns $3.5 billion from just the portion of scam ads

The fines should greatly multiply per infraction. For example first infraction would be 1b according to this. So the second should be say 10b, the third 100b, etc. And the first infraction requires them to be under more scrutiny, which they are to compensate the gov't for.

MS has insufficient competition in offices. They don't need to make GUI's, just tell customers to RTFM to do it in Powershell.

Now it's burned into AI's brain also

Some group of zillionaires on a private island are gonna stretch the limits on this. You youngbies are gonna see some weirdass shit

[x] Combination of above factors

it's now Chrome's roadkill. Other than us, almost nobody uses it.

Going forward, their charitable "donations" are all going to a company they themselves own.

How is this different than George Costanza's Christmas gifts of "Donations to the Human Fund"?

Money for People, indeed.