SidewaysFancyPrance

SidewaysFancyPrance t1_j1bg6j1 wrote

This is the wrong time to be absolutely oblivious to public sentiment, and unable to read the room. The economic pressure is hitting everyone, and he's whining and complaining the loudest. Smart billionaires STFU during downturns and don't criticize/aggravate/condescend their customers and labor force. They lay low and don't draw attention to how their lifestyles don't change one bit.

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SidewaysFancyPrance t1_j0aie5t wrote

My working theory is that the conservatives know that climate change is absolutely real, and that the world will see massive increases in migration as populations flee affected areas. They want America to have a solid wall around the Southern border because they'd rather do that than address climate change directly (which would make them less wealthy/influential).

They saw World War Z and want what Israel built.

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SidewaysFancyPrance t1_ixi7ygl wrote

We see this a lot, and not just in sports. A person is so effective that other people overlook the harm they do to their institution and people around them. Eventually they lose that effectiveness and suddenly the problems and criticism catch up hard and everyone wonders why they put up with it for so long. The math changes.

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SidewaysFancyPrance t1_iwv1y9i wrote

Yeah, the problem is when bosses make the cuts but then the unspoken expectation is that you as the worker have to sacrifice and buckle down to compensate for it, but the boss gets the bonus for saving the company money.

When a company actually cuts work as they cut employees and just acknowledge that things will have to drop off, I respect that. That's leadership making hard decisions. Firing people and telling everyone else to work harder to meet the same goals is not making a hard decision, it's being an asshole.

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SidewaysFancyPrance t1_itvk7fb wrote

I just replaced my 7-year-old 4th-gen Intel PC with a 13th-gen custom build, and it is awesome. But it came with Windows 11, which is absolutely horrible. Nothing is where it used to be, and finding things often requires a Google search to know what Microsoft renamed it so I can search in Windows Settings. It really wants me to integrate my computing with Microsoft services that I don't want anywhere near my device and is super pushy about it.

So yeah, I only replaced my PC because it was ancient and I'm a gamer. I would have not replaced it otherwise, and it was running fine. They are going to struggle with this because changing things around to justify a new version number and SKU isn't going to land with customers.

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SidewaysFancyPrance t1_itruuzp wrote

> but I am happy to see anyone throw money at VR.

You should be concerned that Meta is going to fail so spectacularly that VR becomes an unspeakable word in tech for another 20 years. Trying to force it on the public is going to set it back.

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