I’ve heard it compared to the scene in Toy Story where they’re trying to find the right Buzz Lightyear amongst all the identical clones.

Oh boy, cosplayers and DnD players got the shaft with that one.

Also just making their employees more productive.

There’s a very good reasons why people and organisations will pay for proprietary software when there is a free alternative available. I’ve used FOSS word processors before, for example, and they’re okay, but nothing like what Microsoft Office can do. Same with video editing.

I’ve got no idea what you’re talking about here.

That’s exactly what I was thinking. It also makes Chrome essentially worthless to anyone except Google.

Potentially.

Yup, there it is.

What’s to stop them just making another browser?

A lot of CEOs and senior execs genuinely do work some nutty hours though.

Good luck finding people willing to deal with English majors long enough to conduct the study.

You’re right, actually. How many people make a point of reading poetry? I’ve read a huge amount, especially when I was in school, as well as news articles, and of course an unfathomable number of comments.

Never have I decided to read poetry, not once.

This thread is hilarious.

Oh man, that doesn’t say anything good about poetry in general, where something that, by definition, has no imagination and cannot come up with something original, outdoes you.

What percentage of people who join platforms like Twitter or Bluesky actually post anything though?

60 mil between them, apparently.

Doesn’t take brain damage for that to sound like a good deal.

Musk has previously described himself as an “alpha male”, it will annoy him for sure.

I now understand how “may you live in interesting times” is such a bad thing.

I feel sorry for satire writers in the last decade or so, it must be genuinely difficult to come up with stuff more bizarre than reality.

I think people have mostly given up on that, going from the posts I’ve seen. Like how most people will admit Linux isn’t for everyone.