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UK: Two jailed over gold toilet theft from Blenheim Palace

Michael Jones, 39, received a 27-month sentence, with the judge saying he could not be sure he was part of the gang that carried out the burglary, though he was found guilty of having carried out reconnaissance at the stately home preceding the crime.

That reconnaissance included trying out the facility a day before the theft, an experience he described to the court as "splendid."

😂😂

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Reddit's fight with its most powerful users enters new phase as blackout continues | CNN Business

Huffman argued this week that Reddit is a business, telling NPR “it’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company.”

First sign to be a grown up company is to tackle major changes with an appropiate timeline and get feedback from the community that helped you get where you are now. Also, if you really want to kill 3rd party apps, be transparent and say it instead of setting ridicule high prices and pretending those are market numbers.

Huffman has also said that the protests have had little impact on the company financially.

Yet there he is, forcing subreddits to reopen and giving interviews to major tech outlets daily.

What a clown.

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Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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Marketing is society's cancer.

When a company has a good product/idea, they grow organically. If I'm looking for something, it should be enough to have information available through manufacturers websites and customer opinions, there is ZERO need to shove ads down people's throats, which usually translates onto overconsumption and buying the best marketed (not the optimal) product.

So yeah, fuck marketing in general, big corporations greed and their entitlement to control the web.

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[Rant] I'm fucking annoyed.

Unfortunately, many of us experienced something similar.

Spent some years in a consulting company that used the same strategy, small sacrifices by the employees from time to time whilst they were declaring record profits year by year. Although the methodology is despicable, reality is that it works. Not only the law allows it (and if they get a fine it's still worth it since the system is rigged) but also there will always be people that will stay no matter what (not wanting to get out of the comfort zone, peer pressure...). If you think about it, there are many companies that become viable just because they exploit their employees.

In my experience, if they are already doing this they will never stop pushing forward this type of policies, so my suggestion is that, in case you can't avoid the extra hours, do the barely minimum to not get fired and start looking for a new job (bonus points if you convince other employees to do the same)

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for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken?

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I will mourn for awhile, until I cant even remember why im upset anymore, and when I wake up tommorrow the world will be just a little bit worse. it always is.

Felt this many times and you couldn't have expressed it better. Sometimes I thought "maybe I'm getting old and you tend to idealize how the world was in your younger years" but the current situation with reddit is a clear example of this not being the case.

As a reddit refugee, happy to start becoming a part of the fediverse :)>