As if they didn't do that already. They're just saying the quiet part out loud because "fuck you, rube. What are ypu gonna do, whine to the FCC?"

Companies are not your friends, there's nothing to "forgive". Companies are motivated by profit, not goodwill.

That said, I think the initial reception was a bit blown out of proportion and anyone who avoids playing this out of spite is an idiot and missing out because it's a great game ( and has been, since the first paches rolled out in 2020 ).

So almot half of the music there was slop? Jesus christ

Oh suure, suure. Right after they were supposed to get their shit together.

This whole project seems like a load of hot air to appease investors. It got the spotlight right when Asha took the reigns 7 months ago and even now we know exactly jack shit about it, despite supposedly launching next year. But it's estimated to cost 1200-1800 based on...vibes I guess, because we don't even know what form it will take.

This whole lemmy tankie dev thing has been discussed ad nauseam here for the past year or so. Not sure what solutions you suggest, but if I were to filter my software by who's an asshole dev and who's not, that list will end up really short.

As far as the ml instance goes, I don't agree that we should start defederating left and right with any and all undesirables, but to each their own. At least people now will be in the know, and it might take some weight off lemmy.world

Exploit it you say? Please get in line behind the russians, the chinese snd pretty much all arab countries

Goddamn it. Lobbying wins again

That moment when you're too far right for the far-right.

Discord probably did the math and are willing to take a hit to the user counts (much like reddit did when they closed the apis), as the vast majority will stay and keep "threatening" to leave. There's at least the hope that the ones who quit now will establish communities elsewhere, on a (hopefully) better server platform.

Fucking finally! Now let them fight.

Can't wait for that LLM to become a reddit-hating bloodthirsty linux obsessed furry femboy communist tankie with a weird fondness for beans, star trek and sturgeon

Interesting. I thought companies usually waited until they at least had a good product or cashflow before going for enshittification.

Its fascinating to see that a chinese state controlled app has the power to potentially destabilize small economies. Also fuck influencers, they are a plague on this world.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

If it were a paid account yeah, it'd be extremely shitty. But seeing as it's a free account, it's their prerogative to try and get people to pay for the service. Besides, I don't get this entitlement that spotify has to provide music for free. They're a (admittedly greedy) middle-man that wants to get paid. If one wants free music and everything, well, time to self-host.

This is so sad. I thought the whole paper mail infrastructure was essentially eternal due to its importance.

Letter numbers have fallen since the start of the century from 1.4 billion to 110 million last year.

110 million is still A LOT of paper letters. Shame the service will be gone.

PostNord has weathered years of financial struggles and last year was running a deficit.

Again, I thought this was a national strategic resource, regardless of profit. Over here in europe's armpit the national post has been running at a loss for nigh on 40 years, and it's still kept afloat, for better or worse.

Finally, a sane fuckin approach to the tarriff madness. But it's probably due to them exporting to the US a lot less than what they're importing.

On another note, I really hate that trump's buffoonery is helping brics. They used to be just a bunch of greedy autocrats but now this asshole is giving them common ground to stand on.

I'm loving the balls on studios. Yesterday we had "experts" suggesting it might cost 100 bux, and today it's already the beggining of a trend. And the game isn't even out. In fact, we only have the trailer for the game and they're already predicting prices.

My prediction is yes, they'll ask 100$ and more, and yes, people will pay it.

But the nerve, I swear. "Yeah, our games have gotten sloppier every year. And yes, we fired tens of thousands solely for profit reasons. But line must go up, so you better start paying"

Loving Bulgaria. Everybody's doing social networks, meanwhile they're "ooh, a puzzle game!"