On the one hand, I can understand the people who used Steam cards being pissed. On the other hand, I’m impressed with Steam for putting scamming victims over profit.

Remember: Valve made money from gift cards, whether from scammers or legit users. They chose to give up this money just to avoid supporting the scammers. If everybody did this, scammers would have a much harder time.

There are mainly two big drives behind browsing today: horny and hate.

I’d be happy if more people browsed because of horny than hate.

I thought Star Wars has neither fences nor railings?

I think the problem is that you think that, while a majority of people think little, if at all. Dumb people and kids for example.

There are enough people who just consume media without reflecting for ads to work, or ads would simply disappear. Companies know how to use statistics.

Yeah, real mystery there 🙄

We don’t choose egoistic people as ruler, egoistic people (and psychopaths) try to become rulers, regardless of the price or morality.

AI is one of those buzzwords that can make your company look more valuable. So everyone includes it, weather it’s useful or not.

And it’s so easy: you use text somewhere in your application? Send it to a LLM together with a prompt and voila - you now have AI in your system. Bam. +200% market value.

Of course I exaggerated a bit, but a lot of people see it like that.

Long-term gains from things like user satisfaction are hard to measure and predict.

That’s why you see these ‘Were you happy with our service?’ questions everywhere. Still, the people who answer these polls are in the minority and a specific subset of respondents, which is bad for statistics.

Doesn’t anyone restrict their AIs rights? An AI should not be allowed to delete the backup. Only someone with admin rights should be able to do that. Normal users, developers and AIs of course should not have the right to touch the backup. Do these people run AI agents as root?

I’d swap EA and Ubi. EA is as bad as Ubi AND has the tendency to take beloved franchises and kill them. Definitely Chaotic Evil. A tumor on the games industry.

Well, it also doesn’t help that the new owner throws nazi salutes on television.

Trump is probably bi. No joke, just a fact. We know from the Epstein emails that he ‘blew Bubba’. While we don’t know exactly who that is, it paints a certain picture.

Ah, a good little peon, owns nothing but debt. Those won’t riot against their master, even if the masters are pedos and try to take even more from those who have nothing.

Everything is as planned.

Wage slavery. The US is one of the worst offenders. By binding your healthcare to your employer and having next to no worker protection laws, the loss of your job might cause homelessness or death. Is that really a choice? Work or die? And with stagnating wages who has the financial security and time to fight for their rights?

This is of course by design.

Same in Germany: The center right CDU tries to get voters from the far right AFD. Never worked, but they keep on trying.

The German government is deathly afraid of anything that could be constructed as anti-semitic. Probably also bought, but that’s just a guess. Pathetic, and I say that as a German.

If course the next day the kids had to kill their parents: “Mom never smiled like that, the doppelgangers must have won!”

Unrealistic. Should have asked for Jaclyn.

Oh, this is great.

Users noticed that Google had too much bad results because of SEO and spam flooded search results.

Users added “reddit” to their search terms, so they get results from reddit, where spam and astroturfing were… there but manageable.

Now the SEO people and advertisers target reddit with AI tools, until it is so enshitificated that we have to find something else (rinse and repeat)

“No, don’t leave, we just finished saturating the space with ads!”

“Why do you think we leave?”