In a couple of years, the bubble may have already burst.

Also, the robot is not just an employee, it’s an asset that can be sold off to pay debts in the event of bankruptcy.

Put it on polymarket or something, I want to make some money off of such stupidity.

I think it’s great that acting like a cunt online can have consequences.

It doesn’t seem to have deterred you at all…

I use Slack for work and I kinda hate it. I can’t really explain why. Something about it offends my senses on a subconscious level.

I haven’t used it in over a decade so I’m not surprised it has new features. Good to know. Thanks for sharing.

I think Discord does a lot of things that no one other program can also do. There are certainly better programs out there for voice chat, for text chat, for screen sharing, etc. but none of those programs that do it better can do all the other stuff.

If Discord dies, you would need like two or three other apps to replace all of the features you’ve lost.

For people who only use Discord for voice, it’s easy to say “Let’s just got back to using TeamSpeak or Ventrillo”, but if you also used Discord to stream your games to your friends, you now need to find another alternative for that since TS and Vent don’t have that function and likely never will.

It sucks because I think the Discord app is great for what it does. Yes, it creates information silos when everybody uses it for their support/documentation, but before Discord it was Facebook/Twitter and I didn’t use those platforms either. I like that Discord is packed with features and the most basic ones are free to use. Finding an alternative will be tough.

Guilded is dead. Their website redirects to a thank-you page of some sort. I remember trying it out ages ago and I thought it was pretty decent competition for Discord and had a lot of the same features, but ultimately it would have been susceptible to the same kind of fuckery that Discord is giving us right now. These private companies only want to extract value out of their users.

It’s okay though because Zuck greased the Trump admin’s palms with his Presidential Library bribe, so they’ll get a slap on the wrist at best.

Just a really fast military quagmire… as a treat! ☺️

Before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was feared as a great military might of the world.

Now the curtain has been drawn back on the wizard, and it turns out they can’t even properly subjugate their neighbors.

Makes me wonder how much of the military bravado from China and America is just a fancy veneer and how deep the corruption has managed to hollow out their ability to fight a real slugfest of a war, not these one-sided invasions and subsequent 20 year occupation.

I’m envious. No really, I wish I could pack up my life and move to the Netherlands. It sounds like a fantastic place. I just worry that if so many Americans are fleeing to stable European democracies, that they will eventually become a nuisance and wear out their welcome, regardless of how well behaved some of us might try to be. Our reputation as an ignorant, uncurious and closed-minded people was not entirely unearned.

I’m appreciating the silence while it lasts.

The thing that will kill this is forcing users to migrate to a new app. Removing the largest friction barrier that prevents people from leaving your app by forcing them to cross it is a great way to scatter the TikTok userbase to the four winds.

I hope this kills TikTok, and that the people who enjoyed using it remember who was responsible for it.

Oh yes, let me protest this thing that just happened by throwing my Android-OS phone that I bought years ago away. That’ll show 'em.

You’re just as disingenuous and stupid as the morons on the right who smashed their Keurigs.

FYI, my next phone will probably be a Linux phone anyway and I hardly use YouTube at all these days, and when I do it’s with AdBlockers on, and I never gave a cent to them for premium, so I cost them money to use their platform if anything. If PeerTube or some other non-Google video hosting service could go mainstream, I’d use that in a heartbeat. I’ve de-Googled my life as much as I could reasonably be expected to, and this was before their CEO kissed the ring. So fuck off with your judgemental attitude.

I already hate Apple products, so I can’t not buy them to make a statement about not supporting fascist loving corpo scum.

Republicans so fuckin’ stupid they’re trying prohibition again, but this time with porn.

I feel like at least one of those traits are a necessary prerequisite to getting indoctrinated into the Trump cult.

“I don’t use social media and never have.”

So what are they going to do if someone fires back with this? Deny their visa because they didn’t agree to be spied on by a few of the worst companies on planet fucking earth? Is the government going to be able to somehow make me prove that I don’t have social media?

We have the stupidest people in charge right now.

Can ChatGPT actually play chess now? Last I checked, it couldn’t remember more than 5 moves of history so it wouldn’t be able to see the true board state and would make illegal moves, take it’s own pieces, materialize pieces out of thin air, etc.

I don’t want to be caught dead driving one of those fucking nazimobiles. I would not take one even if it were free.