they gambled and lost and now taxpayers pay their gambling bills
economy über alles
They gambled and we all lost
as is tradition. Time to convert to new traditions.
Yeah lost what? 10% of billions of dollars still leaves them with billions of dollars.
Uhhh
Tell that to California, who just decided it didn’t want to tax billionaires by a landslide.
I saw the “trickle down” happening in San Francisco first hand when I got off the Rapid Transit a stop early and emerged in the middle of a cardboard city.
If only there was some way they could have known.
Round up the CEOs and introduce them all to a woodchipper.
Why are you suggesting something so kind?
Maybe like, a really dull woodchipper, or one with the blades on backwards or something
Or make sure to feed them in feet first
This might prove inefficient, but I think it’s worth a few hundred trial attempts, for science
I only know the term gambled and lost to describe a fart that is accidentally a shit.
The problem is that they will just shift who they cosy up to and who they bribe with “lobbying”. We all need politicians with the integrity to stand up to that.
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They were going to lose anyway. Everyone seems to memoryhole that the Biden administration was on the verge of forcing Google to sell of chrome. They were probably going to enforce more antitrust on big tech.
But of course people memoryholed it. They control what you see and think.
It’s no surprise they comply with Trump’s arbitrary whims. The tech industry didn’t gamble. Trump was their only choice.
They could have chosen to spin off parts of their companies to avoid a forced breakup. They could have chosen to fight back against disinformation during the 2024 election. And they could have chosen to say no to Trump and his mad king decrees. But, they chose to side with the fascists, and that’s now the only decision that matters.
They’re gonna need to have much better PRIDE avatar flags next year to win back my confidence.
I know you’re joking but I immediately started thinking that. Is Target going to suddenly have totally legit honest LGBTQ stands again now? I have a feeling we’re going to have whiplash with all of these corps.
They will absolutely flip and pander, and people are going to willfully look the other way, because it’s too difficult not to have a Facebook.
I really don’t understand how so many people are unwilling to be mildly uncomfortable
One of my friends won’t get off Twitter “because that’s where the good memes are”. I’m like ma’am you can live on slightly stale memes.
The memes on lemmy are pretty dank, but I like my cheese a little funky anyway
Target is never getting my money again, unfortunately most people’s memory is as short as a goldfish
That’s rather unfair, actually. I’ve had goldfish and they have much better memories, and better attention spans, than many humans.
Which I find funny because goldfish actually have pretty good memory.
So much of what is wrong with the world in general these days seems to come down to how fucking brainless and easily manipulated people are. Advertising essentially becomes mind control and that’s why the whole economy seems to revolve around who can shove the most ads into people’s faces.
Target will pay for the Facebook ads, and mindless morons will start wandering right back in again, buying the next stupid fucking Stanley Cup or labubu or beanie babies or cabbage patch doll or monchichi…
Fully agree, the last time I went was once this year, and I paid with a gift card I got from before their bending the knee, so it only took assets away from them. Other than that, I will not shop there.
I put my pronouns back on slack today
When do we get to eat them?
GET IN MAH BELLY
FUCKING VORE THE RICH
They might be into that.
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That looks like the Rocketeer.
Now. Now is when you get to eat them.
For an industry obsessed with risk models, betting everything on Trump’s popularity was quite a choice. Especially while telling ordinary people to accept higher power bills and endless data centers. Turns out the electorate wasn’t as easy to disrupt as the CEOs hoped.
I think what happened was a FOMO moment in which Elon’s contributions worked really, really well in 2024 so everyone else just jumped on that bandwagon.
The rich believe that the endgame is near so they are very ready to take as much power as they can.
They’re venture capitalists they’re obsessed with risk in the sense they believe big risk = big reward and are vain enough to believe they can force several hundred million people to vote against their best interests with some poorly done smoke and mirrors. They forgot most VC ventures are failures because they’re too far up their own asses to see reality anymore
I’ve worked in tech a long time and never have I seen an actual risk model used.
I have had CEOs tell me they don’t like my analysis and there’s gold in them thar bad decision hills, and they don’t care what my numbers say.
I get some schadenfreude watching the disaster unfold, but it usually ends in decent people getting fucked over by management.
I mean from history we can learn that those with lots of power aren’t more intelligent than most. They get greedy etc
And disconnected from reality
This is the truth. I’m married to a software engineer, and let me tell you, some of his holiday parties were eye-opening for a lowly arts administrator like me. They’re all totally out of touch with how normal people live. Especially if both income earners in a household work in tech.
The opening of Silicon Valley hits so fucking hard.
I don’t know how Mike Judge is consistently so right.
Serious danger?
You think the corporate Dems who just got elected are going to do anything to curtail big tech?
The last Dem presidency gave us Lina Khan who was absolutely tearing it up until Trump fired her
Now kicking ass for a Mr. Mamdani somewhere.
Seems pretty safe to say MAGA lost the House and the Senate and still, ain’t ‘nothing gon’ happen.
@Gerblat@lemmy.world something for you?
Or are you naive enough to think all the sudden there’s a plan to undo all the bad shit that’s been happening the last couple of decades that didn’t get fixed during the time democrats previously held the house and Senate?
Or, perhaps you have something you’d like to share about how they’re going to counter presidential Veto power?
No worries. Dems love corpo money too; the industry will just have to change the sales pitch and keep doing the same thing.
