if they expect you to do a consultant’s work, they should pay you a consultant rate

another hippo, usually

b) this is a remarkable incentive to NOT acknowledge criticism. I mean, if I’m Meta and I see this often, what is the incentive to not just force everybody to EULA away as much as possible?

how incredibly fucking dishonest. profit motive is more than enough incentive for them to continue to do what they’ve already been doing for close to two decades.

“don’t boycott exceptionally shitty companies or you’re responsible when they just get worse” is possibly the worst take i’ve seen so far on lemmy.

do you struggle to play peekaboo? how do you not grasp that they’re feeding into the same software ecosystem and your data is being stored in the same database?

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😵‍💫 YOU ARE HELPLESS TO RESIST A GAY OLD TIME 😵‍💫

MKULTRA was the result of Allen Dulles’s hypno kink.

not only did they gut the API for actual people, they carved out exceptions for “low volume users” to keep the bots inflating activity

now they’ve literally stolen from the people who paid to support the site in the first place. absolutely shameless

i fundamentally agree with you. i think it depends on how loosely you define ‘direct’. class struggle has its fingers in many pies including

• marketing saturation / materialism
• mental health availability
• quality of education
• overall day-to-day stress levels

all of which are at odds with encouraging a more empathetic, happy, and healthy population of men. people who are angry and fearful and deprived are easier to control and sell products to than people who are kind and understanding and satisfied. a higher quality of life breeds a higher quality of people and interpersonal interactions.

you mean crosswalks don’t usually end diagonally in the middle of the street?

there is only one truth, and it is that there is no gender war, only misdirection from class warfare that has monetized and monopolized even our interpersonal, romantic, and sexual connection.

when people don’t have problems, you can’t sell them solutions.

as a consumer product, yeah. but teams is ubiquitous in business and govt.