Reminds me of when Twitter started requiring Javascript to view a page. That was the last week I read anything hosted on Twitter. It must be at least 5 years ago now, and it's been great. Whatever's in that post, if it's really important, will be available somewhere else, and with better context.

Now, Reddit does on occasion actually have something useful to me, so I'm more tempted to make an account there, but we'll see how it goes.

Pretty sure there was racism before capitalism. It did supercharge large-scale racist endeavors like slavery - which also existed before capitalism.

Maybe it's disturbing to contemplate that there are some portion of people who are naturally like that, without having it forced on them from above. But on a positive note, I do believe they can be controlled/mitigated by societal norms and proper leadership.

Nature compels them to work. A government boogeyman is hardly necessary.

These were $1.25 headphones being sold for $70-$80. This was in 2019, not sure if that was before or after Bose.

I needed to pick up some cheap headphones on vacation a few years back. Went to Best Buy and decided to pay a little extra for what must be the better headphones, the Skullcandys. They were some of the worst headphones I've ever heard. Not "bass-heavy", just tinny, metallic sounding, and uneven throughout the range. Dollar store quality, for a premium price. Never again.

I saw a thumbnail on YouTube from CBS or ABC, one of those state media apparatuses, of the jumping car. It was so obvious just from the thumbnail what this thing was, and why it was all over the media.

I vowed to quit asking myself questions like, "Do people really buy this?", But it still amazes me to see that they do. (Buy the hype, not the car)

You can find some used for around $39k now. Likely to crater further as the quick-n-easy loans come due, and they get repo'd.

I doubt they float or are bulletproof, though.

They apparently gave it some Muslim name, Ahmed or something, and dressed it up in what must be their idea of "gangster" attire: wifebeater, large chain.

So they thought it was funny not only to commit the sexual assault, but dress up as a lower-caste Muslim while doing it. Speaks volumes as to where the problems in that country really are.

I think they sense the end is coming, and these calls are signs of desperation. Seems kind of a longshot. But it may be all they can do to try extending the life of their companies by another year or two.

Are you sure it's the residents orchestrating this? Politicians have pulled the wool over my eyes with "think of the children" too many times to believe that. This smells less like earthen grass-roots and more like a smokescreen decreed from the top-down to make the politicians appear to be "reigning in Big Tech" without having to actually do that.

I think they'd prefer to do it in secret, where no one can see them. That's why the masks.

Freedom ain't free, sovereignty ain't cheap.

Hopefully they are increasing their military budgets too, shoring up the physical side of security.

All I could think of when reading the summary was "busywork". I would be more impressed with code that accomplishes its task with a minimum of changes, not how many lines your bot can shit out.

I think I still have some Discovery documentaries I recorded on VHS somewhere. No monthly fee to retain those. I would have to find a VHS player to watch them, though.

The enshittification of the Discovery Channel, I think, inspired the film Idiocracy. All the shows they have now, look like a bunch of extras from the film running around.

I have a family member who is a longtime Kroger employee. Store-based, not a corporate employee. A few years ago he told us how Kroger was trying to inject AI into the store's operations. The result was: the AI didn't help, and it was withdrawn from that application.

They might have ulterior motives for making this kind of announcement, but they are definitely experimenting with AI as well.