Big tech companies are prefect examples of hubris and incompetence.

Banking and financial institutions more so.

As a seasoned software engineer I find it so insulting that we're paying both these industries to screw up and screw us.

What's more frustrating is that nobody with power will help.

a TON of black and indigenous people joined up with the british, likely more than the other way around, because the brits promised them their freedom. god damn this dude is custom built to piss off people who know anything about anything

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

hey gang. just wanted to give everyone an update re: those promises I've been making for the last ten years about how I was going to weave a ladder out of dreams and climb up to heaven. it was just a joke basically

These people have voted for Trump three times. THREE. And he still has like a 38% approval rating. Give up. Stop trying to change their minds and focus on people who actually want to make this country better

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

it irritates me when i hear people say stuff like "well EVERYONE supported the iraq war after 9/11, we were all fooled" bitch speak for yourself

You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?

Watching Eric Berger (historically a Musk fanboy) struggle with the revelation that Musk is a fake engineer conman white supremacist never loses its entertainment value

every single "principled libertarian" put on the red hat in 2016 and i don't think we should let them take it off and pretend like they're real intellectuals again now that he's unpopular

the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that Ezra Klein knows what he's talking about

I love this skeet so much because it completely undermines the idea that business leaders are hypercompetent or intelligent. This guy is a managing partner at a financial services firm and CTO, skeeting about how he's able to unscramble the word always from ywasla.

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.

I cannot begin to express how happy I am that everyone, including the people I hate viscerally, now agree with me specifically

it's unbelievable to me that someone could actually be a trillionaire. i think most of us have trouble internalizing how much money that truly is. let me put it in simple terms for you: a trillion dollars is three million dollars