The reason they gave for the tracking of their employees private communications and location even when not at work is “health and safety reasons”.

“This is for your protection” seems to be the go-to corporate bad faith argument these days.

“It is supposed to be ribbed for my pleasure!”

That’s something I don’t get. The amount of work and change required to make Mars livable for humans is insane and we still don’t even know if it is possible. The amount of change required to fix our planet’s climate is minuscule in comparison. They want to terraform a planet that is completely hostile to human life and yet we can’t even get our own planet’s average temperature down by 1 degree.

If only he remembered that he used to care about climate change. Or at least pretended to.

He did nearly bankrupt Tesla after he stole the company from its original founders and demanded that the cars have flush-fitting door handles, completely ignoring his engineers advice that the R&D would be extremely expensive and time consuming because of the safety regulations requiring the handles to still be functional after a crash.

It would be hilarious if they told Elon he has this powerful position and he goes around telling people what to do but it’s just a plot to keep him happy and distracted. People pretend to listen and then once he’s gone they just ignore what he said and do what actually needs to be done.

You know, like how SpaceX is run already.

Meanwhile in Japan public trash cans are extremely rare and people are expected to bring their trash home and throw it away there. And they do. We are just a spoiled society.

Here’s the kicker: A proper government official shouldn’t try to tell the department of Justice who to charge like that either.

That just looks like the first half of that crying woman pointing at the cat meme

I work in an office cubicle. I am constantly interrupted by coworkers asking for stuff or wanting to take about non-work related things. Or I am distracted by other co-workers who are having loud conversations within 2 meters of me.

I am probably 5x more productive at home than in this environment.

A minimum amount of karma is required to start threads in many communities. I used to be subscribed to a community that didn’t have automated bot detection or a very active moderator and was being hit by bots posting ads to scam merchandise websites multiple times a day. Here’s what I observed.

These posts had a few dozen quick upvotes over the first few minutes of being posted along with a few comments from other bots shilling the ad after being posted. These shilling comments also received a bunch of initial upvotes as well, and then all slowly got a trickle of downvotes by real humans after. Real humans also commented to denounce the scam ads a few minutes later, some of which were also receiving a sudden spike of downvotes from bot accounts. The bots would eventually get reported and banned (only from the subreddit because Reddit themselves didn’t do crap about bots), and then this would repeat multiple times a day.

I’ve checked their post history and all of these bots were “dormant” and were farming karma by reposting content and copying comments in other subs and imitating human behaviour for the better part of a year before being activated and used to post ads.

This was only from a scammy merch selling website in a relatively small community and it employed a sophisticated network of thousands of rolling bot accounts, probably more than the number of subscribers the subreddit had. There are countless other bot operations on Reddit for advertising, scamming, astroturfing and propaganda purposes that might be even more sophisticated and difficult to detect.

I’ve also seen my own original content being reposted by a bot farming karma in another subreddit and I was shadow banned for complaining about it while the bot was allowed to do its thing where it went on using its karma to post propaganda.This is when I quit Reddit and never looked back at this cesspool of a site.

And all that was before AI text generation was viable. I don’t know if the majority of Reddit is bot accounts, but the number of bots on it is staggering.

Russian propaganda had its way to them

The way I see it if they get defederated a lot of the people will migrate away from it and it won’t be “too big to fail” anymore

There’s one heading to the white house

It reminds me of that scene in The Boys where Homelander forces The Deep eat his octopus friend to torture him, force him to debase himself and force loyalty. True sociopathic behavior.

If he ever decides to try to find a way around the Rockies this will become even more interesting

Almost every cloud based device I’ve ever owned ended up either putting an increasing number of basic features that were originally free behind a subscription paywall or simply turned itself into a brick when it stopped being supported.

So that’s what Trump meant by “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I’ve got good news for you. It’s a suppository”

They’re going to release completely absurd and hilarious conspiracy theories and the regular followers of InfoWars who didn’t know about the change of ownership won’t even see the difference.