You’re not missing anything. You got it right. The entire funding model for tech is destined for a financial collapse that will make 2008 look like child’s play.

https://www.fsgoriginals.com/books/subprime-attention-crisis

From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers’ attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it.

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We’re now trying pump and dump capitalism

6 to 10 years? What kind of risk were they taking on? I’ve lost about 3 months worth of value in my superannuation fund.

Nobody born after 1985 has ever experienced ‘average temperatures’.

https://theconversation.com/lets-call-it-30-years-of-above-average-temperatures-means-the-climate-has-changed-36175

This was a news article from 2015. Since then nearly every year has set a record for being the warmest ever recorded.

We’ve had a decade of pumping more money into the money machine while our ecology falls apart around us.

I just prefer Lemmy. I started exploring Lemmy about 6 months before the API fiasco. The content on Lemmy has just kept improving since.

Given the number of kids Elon has had. His death would be one of the greatest acts of wealth redistribution humanity has ever seen.

He’s supporting one policy that he’s always supported and lobbied for consistently over a decade. That doesn’t mean he’s suddenly ‘pro-Trump’.

We’ve said all along that no matter who is in the White House, our fight remains the same. The fight to fix our broken trade laws like the USMCA continues. The fight for good union jobs and U.S. leadership in the emerging battery industry continues. The fight for a secure retirement for everyone in this country continues. The fight for a living wage, affordable health care, and time for our families continues.

It’s time for Washington, DC to put up or shut up, no matter the party, no matter the candidate. Will our government stand with the working class, or keep doing the bidding of the billionaires? That’s the question we face today. And that’s the question we’ll face tomorrow. The answer lies with us. No matter who’s in office.

November 6, 2024

It’s actually super consistent…he’s always been and always will be anti NAFTA.

I love thylacines. Such goofy looking but totally rad creatures. We’ve done so so much damage…

Do you know the context of the quote?

Lol my country is falling to the fascists. I may as well move to a country that has already fallen to the fascists.

Funniest possible response would be to send honest responses exclusively expressed in Australian slang.

“Is your organisation a climate or environmental justice project?”

“Yeah nah. We’re not hear to fuck spiders. Rollin’ up the sleeves an givin’ it a red-hot crack!”

When all your policies fail the only thing left to engage your voters is the culture war.

I think it could be argued that wearing ostentatious and expensive clothes is a type of self-aggrandisement. Wear something flashy into any local pub in country NSW and you’d get the exact same reaction as above.

I’d say it’s a different set of values but maybe that’s just my cultural perspective.

Tall Poppy is more about egalitarianism and modesty, where standing out or flaunting status too much is discouraged.

Whereas crab bucket is seen as being rooted in envy, jealousy, or a fear of losing status or position.

We call this “cutting tall poppies” in Australia.

I’ve always appreciated this story as an explanation for anyone who finds the concept foreign.

https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/editors_pick/1969_12_pick.html

Music: Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Dropkick Murphys, The Mountain Goats

Comics: Sam Wallman’s Our Members Be Unlimited

Movies/Theatre: Billy Elliot

TV: Firefly (feels kind of politically confused but that feels pretty accurate anyway.),