The title is beyond stupid. Corruption has existed since humanity walked upright. There is absolutely nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before, the only thing that changes is technology.

All of it is bullshit to try and get a bailout from the government and a monopoly.

Using it gives it legitimacy.

Not everyone participates in reading the deeper meaning of media.

Some people just turn off their brains and watch the magic smiles box and come away liking the characters and movie without thinking any further than what was portrayed on screen.

Half the characters on this list are just really awesome visual/character portrayals.

They didn't misunderstand the message, you misunderstood their intent going into the media.

You watch movies to dissect their meanings, others watch movies to escape reality for a bit.

I've completely banned any code that can't be explained. I've had my CTO send me code at 3 AM to implement and when I ask him what I'm looking at he just says it doesn't need review, just push it.

Uhh, no sir, I'm not doing shit because you've handed me GCC and we're MSVC.

After I bitched endlessly to the CEO about that he said I have final say on what goes into the project.

The problem with that is it assumes every idea or opinion is of equal value and that every idea or opinion deserves equal time.

They just don't. I don't need give you a platform, weigh the pros and cons, and listen to you extol the virtues of you shitting in my soup. It is not on equal footing to the idea of not shitting in my soup.

Likewise, I don't need to listen to the pros and cons of a flavor of linux backed by technocrats in bed with a body politic that would cause any founding father to eat his own beard in rage.

I love my job, even when I have to deal with nonsense like that and I'm compensated very well to be on call 24/7.

I mean, the amount of cheering and celebrating at Charlie Kirks death pretty much shows that both sides are only leaving the other alive because jail is a powerful de-motivator.

But it's only good enough to keep a person civil if they think they have something to lose. Make society bad enough and people start seeing violence not as a last resort but as a first option.

It can but I'm not looking to make things even more complicated. We have enough unexplained non-sense in the project as is, having to link it correctly is just endless pain that I don't want to deal with.

I'm going to retire at 40, I think I'll keep going instead of listening to you.

Informed consent does not exist in the animal world and I'm very saddened that that's a sentence I had to type.

You cannot apply human standards to animals, they do not understand contract law.....again, a sentence I'm just very sad I had to type because they didn't understand that.

You talk about cognitive impairment of others yet fail to understand the only thing you're doing is imparting your world view and how you navigate it as how everyone else does/should. You have an extremely narrow perception of how the world works because you can only view it through your own lens.

The only one here impaired in their judgement is you.

Announcing it was the entire point, it gets more people thinking about poisoning their datasets too. You're concerned about a dollar when we're positioned to make thousands.

Those that can't vote tend to be the most oppressed.

You're making it very easy to tell you're extremely young.

Tech companies cozying up with the government?

Oh boy it must be a day ending in y.

Seriously, this has been happening forever. Hell, when Snowden leaked Bush/Obama's prism program, the response was a collective yawn.

You just gotta stop giving a damn what dipshits think.

Post your initial message so that some passerby might glean some insight and then move on.

The opinions of people whom I will never ever see nor interact with ever again means less than nothing. They can think I'm the biggest fucking idiot in the world, doesn't matter to me, I'll sleep just fine.

Me whenever I see pizzacake posted.

I'd hardly call Palworld innovative, It's Satisfactory/Factorio meets Rust with legally distinct pokemon. The novelty is what carries it but it didn't exactly reinvent the genre by any stretch.

A man walked to the newspaper stand to buy a copy every single day. The man would take one look at the cover then simply throw the paper into the trash and go about his day.

Eventually the shopkeep became curious after months of this behavior and he decided to ask the guy what he was doing.

"Looking for an obituary." the man replied.

"Obituaries are in the back of the paper, not the cover." the shopkeeper said, a little confused.

"Not the obituary I'm look for." was the response.