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- Comment on ISPs and robocallers love the FCC plan to “delete” as many rules as possible 2 days ago:
Who doesn’t want 800 versions of “it’s fucking connected” for home Internet like we have for cell phones? Innovation! Think of the unnecessary choices, gotchas, customer service queues, class action lawsuits that are much more difficult thanks to the supreme Court a few years back… what’s not to love?
- Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s 2024 Pay Rises 4% to Nearly $52 Million 5 days ago:
And then one day the shareholders will wonder why they GE or Boeing or Sears.
Short-termism can be seen not only in corporate raider practices but embedded into “best practices” of management since the 80s. Sell anything for a short-term stock boost, bail before it implodes, the vacuum left behind us someone else’s problem. It’s wild that boardrooms, having this as fully visible, aren’t structured to have longer-term incentive pay packages. Pay them what they make now but have it wholly depend on variables outside of stock price. Do the right things and success often follow, it’s when “investors must be satisfied” becomes the management guidance that it all turns to shite.
- Comment on Tariff Live Updates: Trump Backs Down on Reciprocal Tariffs for 90 Days 1 week ago:
Just yesterday’s announcement, if you had bought short term options on a stock based on the inside information of the announcement, and it went up 12-20% could easily have returned hundreds or thousands of percentage return on the bet. It’s already happened. Full dictator casino.
The question is, how often will it happen and how broadly will the withdraw from a shit country’s stock market be?
- Comment on An Experiment in Recklessness: Trump as Global Disrupter | The global trading system is one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan to replace it 1 week ago:
Concepts
- Comment on Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern 1 week ago:
Totally give in. Invite federal Truth Police on campus. These institutions have no duty to their mission, only making the line go up, just like the insanity they used to be able to critique. It’ll get worse, but also better much sooner with capitulation. We should speed run this part. Might have armed revolt by memorial day.
- Comment on Wall Street Bursts With Anger as Trump Tariffs Cause Wild Stock Market Swings 1 week ago:
Businesses need “certainty” in the boardroom. It’s why they support Republican candidates who focus on “the economy”.
I hope they choke in the absolute certainty they’re being delivered.
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- Comment on Report: Disney Is Putting the Live-Action Tangled on Hold 1 week ago:
Narrator: “they are all pointless cash grabs”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Action in general is what audiences have been conditioned to accept for blockbusters, when language barriers and dubbing and subtitles and regional release dates were more of an issue 20+ years ago action is what international audiences came for. As international box office receipts can far outstrip local revenue, it’s regression to the mean or maybe “lowest common denominator”. Visual spectacle, after all is what movies can do in spades…but since everyone has been trying to make a “matrix” action moment for almost 30 years again it just means scripts and plots get subsumed by “needs more adrenaline for audiences”. Like an impatient teenager.
The best movies will always have balance, and build to action where appropriate, but we’re nearly 3 decades in to “lacking plot, directoral skill, acting, good dialogue?–throw special effects and long action sequences in”. It’s like a highschool story paper that needs to be 5 pages and you wrote 2 so add a bunch of filler. It’s a shame, visual effects, cinematography and a good action sequence are as impactful as anything else, but have been given an outsized role that boils down to “what can a casual, normal moviegoer be impressed by”?
- Comment on Steph Curry drops 52 in close win vs Grizzlies 2 weeks ago:
12/20 behind the line, 4/11 2-pointers lol. Absolutely solid playable game if you reverse those for an average NBA player.
- Comment on Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get? 2 weeks ago:
Further; if there is anyone who ensures Trump’s first win and enabled the second was the DNC undemocratically undermining Bernie’s primary successes and putting her forward and despite the machinations and dishonesty of it, her wanting it so much she accepted it and marginalized Bernie and actual progressivism dooming the democratic party to further irrelevance and weakness when they could have moved left 8 years ago and won.
Fuck Hillary for thinking her winning was more important than the constituents of the party she’s a member of. It’s the essence of entitlement, elitism and antidemocraticism.
- Comment on Since today is March 24, I'll be watching this classic for the first time (the movie takes place on this day in 1984). 3 weeks ago:
I just watched it for the first time last year, it had been one of those “always on the list” but just never happened.
It translates well and was insightful for me. I was shocked by the dialogue in a good way; remembering how much people used to be able to communicate with each other, handle complex emotions without shutting down forever, recover, and grow stronger. In 2025 where people barely talk about real things to their friends and family in the US let alone strangers, it is such a stark reminder of what has been lost to cable TV and cell phones in the intervening decades since the movie came out. Not that everyone used to talk like that on a everyday basis but if you put out a movie like that now many people wouldn’t even watch it, or be able to process it.
- Comment on Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System into Turmoil | A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile just was looking at the Jeep with the “let’s go Brandon” bumper sticker in my grocery parking lot with Veteran license plate…
These fucking idiots are signing their own death warrant.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 4 weeks ago:
Actually, that’s not true at all. This one time, I met a guy who…
- Comment on Gen Z is ‘task masking’ in the workplace. How harmful is it? 5 weeks ago:
I was trying not to be sensational but felt it should be higher as my made up stat, but decided lower and inarguable would be best since the internet loves to split hairs.
- Comment on Gen Z is ‘task masking’ in the workplace. How harmful is it? 5 weeks ago:
Fauxnalism- make up a shitty portmanteau, generalize about an enormous group of people based on their age without any hard data, assert you have special insight into something that doesn’t exist to divide and distract from real issues and generate clicks and outrage and profit. 50% of “news” in 2025.
Ironically, this article is fauxductivity it adds nothing to anything, and could mostly be AI slop.
- Comment on Do you think the US will actually log its national parks? 5 weeks ago:
They will sell it to the highest bidder, likely foreign. That is the whole point of the “sovereign wealth fund”. Trump and the Uber wealthy see it as an asset to plunder, who cares if Bahrain owns Yellowstone or you have to pay Bezos to fly over the Amazon Canyon? The future is amazing!
- Comment on Shaquille O’Neal Admits to Not Watching Detroit Pistons After Being Called Out for Praising Coach Who Isn’t Even on the Team 5 weeks ago:
Don’t care, not important
- Comment on The sad debacles of "Big 3" teams in the NBA 5 weeks ago:
Phoenix is your dream trading partner; desperate and valuing name recognition and salary pricetag over fit, stats, effort and performance history. I felt like PHL was trying harder than Phoenix and got a bit unlucky the way embiid went with injury and maturity.
Bradley Beal has talent and never was anywhere near showing he could play within a system other than talented player on a crap team, let alone a complex balance of sharing the ball with two of the most talented offensive players in the league…who also mostly share his main affliction of being a defensive liability. He’s a 90s-era ball hog star. Shocker he didn’t work out.
Building slowly and organically is the way to do it and enjoy it, if you get a lucky draft pick along the way it helps. Cleveland(recent), Memphis, Sacramento, OKC of old were all far more enjoyable, and mostly more successful than teams that just back up a dump truck of money with no strategy to someone who can score 30 a night; clippers, nets, Knicks, Etc.
- Comment on The MAGA War on Speech 1 month ago:
Coming from the NYT who prioritizes neutrality over directness and transparency which allows cover for fascism and dishonesty. Biggest mouthpiece in the world but only run opinion pages with real teardowns and only now but for how long?
- Comment on The House Wants to Pass Trump’s Agenda in One Big Bill. Here’s What’s in It. 1 month ago:
The bulk of the article focuses on whether or how the insane deck chair rearranging to make tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and corporations “possible”, and zero time calling out the horrifying impact and real world consequences. What a horrid rag the NYT is.
- Comment on America Has a Rogue President 1 month ago:
Yawn, pull the news out of the opinion pages you coward NYT.
- Comment on Embiid benched, declines comment as Sixers lose 1 month ago:
😬
- Comment on Trump Just Fired 6,700 I.R.S. Workers in the Middle of Tax Season. That’s a Huge Mistake. 1 month ago:
Well the NYT can’t call fascist takeover what it is, that wouldn’t be “fit to print” as their money lies in service of power.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 month ago:
It was dumb speculation until he took down all regulatory apparatus, and grabbed the national checkbook while trump made himself a puppet king. Now any money not in Tesla is crazy.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 month ago:
Divorced from reality? Teslas CEO controls Treasury payments as of a week ago.
I cannot think of an easier bet than on a dictator’s personal interests rising. Trump is just a sock puppet for a bit. Musk, Vance, etc. are the next Gen of uglier.
- Comment on DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. 1 month ago:
And by vulture venture capitalists you mean nearly every publicly traded company, which is almost every company you’ve ever heard of. It’s why you have to constantly be on the defensive even when buying a pack of gum. Is it full of poison? Too much sugar? Do they use slave labor to produce the product? Are they funding genocide in central America? Why is the price 3x last year?
By welding insatiable, unregulated capitalism as the sole way of operating our economy, we guarantee that quality and human-positive outcomes are eaten up, taken over, destroyed, monetized, privatized or enshittified.
I just want to buy a pack of gum in a reasonable world that doesn’t need to support CEO levels of wealth and all the horrific downstream practices and cost cutting that comes with it
- Comment on A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this? 2 months ago:
I reported that tool to another mod in AskLemmy, got nowhere. Same mod you mention posted an AskLemmy question, I commented, he removed my up voted comment and then deleted his down voted, nonsensical one. I asked why and he was super weird. I’ve had maybe 1 comment removed by a mod in 15 years of reddit and 1 of Lemmy.
It’s a bad look for Lemmy, get rid of the dumbass.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 2 months ago:
If you truly haven’t connected the dots as to why the slide to the right of Democrats enabled Trump to win, and win again, I pity you.
Throwing labels at me because you can’t refute the point is always the mark of someone on the correct side. Rest easy!
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 2 months ago:
He allowed extra-judicial torture practices there against UNHR and any humanitarian objections. He didn’t do what Trump is going to, but he allowed it to normalize and continue despite the power to stop it, and makes it less of a leap for a right wing freak to make something like this happen. It’s not a “thanks Obama”, but people down voting holding Obama to account for keeping it open want Dems to be blameless despite complicity in the neoliberal bullshit dating back to Clinton as the party swung for corporate interests and abandoned their humanity.