Flower

joined 4 months ago
[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

It’s just the course of the entertainment business.

And it works like that for every medium. Guy invents printing bibles and before you know it there are pamphlet and advertisement. Radio wanted to educate and bring peace and soon enough you got propaganda and advertisement.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

It's a Black Friday tradition. By that date, everyone starts sending offers so that's a good time to unsubscribe from all of that.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 19 points 16 hours ago

pretending to be serious about inflation

It's clear the Trump government wants to inflate their huge debt away and don't really care for who gets hurt as everybody important got a heads-up and moves assets as needed.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

It's not figuring out but just waiting until there are more non-nerds moving in that new market and then start monetizing as the market reaches critical mass for their particular niche.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

"It's like investments, bailouts and subsidies but for people instead is companies."

Yeah, close enough.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Outside has been monetized

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Learning would imply Doing Things Differently and we can't have that now can we?

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe the rest of the world should just rename it LoserLand.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

“Now overshoot scenarios require us to stop the train quickly and to back it up. Is it our best hope? Absolutely. Is it likely? Absolutely not.”

They know the score.

It does have that "yes, please continue with your extinction, I'm just here to observe" vibe.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

There's already worse conspiracy theories: let the economy crash and blame it on rogue AI to get the government out of debt while the rich move the assets somewhere else. A bailout is just the beginning.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The company already had a weird origin. The first guy make the flakes bland on purpose.

Kellogg believed in foods that would not excite the passions. This meant vegetarianism. It also meant combatting what was considered the debilitating scourge of masturbation.

The younger brother then added sugar and mass marketed the stuff without mentioning the weird origin.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

They're lucky they weren't eviscerated

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