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Honestly selling the company is understandable. Getting out is normal.

It's the ones that turn into sociopaths that bother me.

Parents signed up for one of those porn blocker services. I didn't have the password to the service, but I did have the password to my dad's user account (shared PC back then). Managed to figure out how to copy his active session cookie to my own user account and was able to freely turn on and off the service.

This would be funnier without the last panel

Ordered food at Sonic on their app. After I ordered, it popped up with ads for travel, various credit cards, etc. Completely crazy to me that they're triple dipping on monetization now (sell me food, sell my data and then sell me other shit while trying to sell me food.)

Which is honestly just the end game of a practice that's been getting worse for decades. It's partly why stuff was outsourced. The more layers between us and the atrocities, the less humanity can focus on reacting to them.

There's been a concerted effort to introduce as many possible layers as they can to divide people and break up communities in order to break humans ability to empathize (and then use that empathy to affect change).

You go back to stop it, only to be stopped by an even later time traveler trying to stop you from making it worse.

Then there's a time traveler trying to stop that guy from stopping you from stopping Hitler. Repeat that a few more times.

Turns out in the end Hitler was the way he was because of all the time travelers constantly fighting each other nearby.

Honestly if someone is competent enough to put together skynet, I think that might be an improvement.

More likely we'll get a shitty chatbot that some tech bro claims is skynet and the world will fall to the absolute worst, buggiest AI overlord imaginable. It'll be an unholy fusion of Terminator and Idiocracy.

Yeah, I'm struggling so hard to just limit my knowledge. Does it really make a difference to me personally if I miss one of the fucked up things Trump does? If you're already radicalized, it doesn't really matter if he's done 20 things wrong or 50. There's no further room to sway your opinion and no further actions you can take. It's just beating your mental health into the ground for no benefit.

But God damn is hard to convince the algorithms you don't want to see that shit anymore. You truly can't even do the simplest thing online without it showing up.

You're specifically paying for an agreed upon amount of time with the product. The negotiated price reflects this limited access to the product.

'Licensing' something with no stated time frame that one side can arbitrarily choose to end at any time makes little sense and they know it. They were perfectly happy with leveraging the assumption that you owned a copy of the product up until it became inconvenient to them.

There's no possible path to gun control with a broken democracy. We have terrible options available to us right now, but that's because we've allowed our foundations to rot almost completely.

You've gotta fix the structure of our democracy before you can even begin to address issues like gun control, discrimination or reproductive rights.

Trying to go after gun control now is like a nation focusing solely on stopping muggers while they're in the middle of being totally overrun by hostile invaders. Yes it's a problem, but unfortunately we've just got even bigger fish to fry at the moment.

If Democrats were smart, they'd temporarily drop talking about some of the more controversial and not immediately relevant political hot topics.

Like gun control is not an immediate need at this moment in time. The focus needs to be on fixing our democracy as quickly as possible so we can get back to the actual process of governing once again instead of this shit show we've had for the last decade.

You're making assumptions that I'm some young kid, naively thinking I can change the world with overly simplistic 'solutions'.

I've been in this career for a decent chunk of time, and, more importantly discussed these issues with others that have been here 40+ years (my company has been around for 100+ years). They feel the same.

You see it over and over again, management makes a short term cost saving decision, gets promoted or leaves to a new company and the rest of the people spend the next 3 years dealing with that decision. Things that used to be fixed in 2-3 days now takes 2-3 weeks. Projects that used to be completed in 4-6 weeks now take 4-6 months, etc.

These are things that I've noticed after 15+ years in the job and things that my 40+ year co-workers agree with and things the next two levels of my own management agree with (both 30+ years at the company). Hell, these are things executives I've been on better terms with have agreed with in the past (only to get let go after failing to implement culture changes).