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  • makunamatata@discuss.tchncs.detochapotraphouse•Only $355,00,000 more to go!
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    9 months ago

    As a devout Christian I will pay penitence from this Sunday, Feb 18, 2024 through Easter, and promote Trump for president!

    Help him raise funds to pay for the “injustice” millions of Americans feel on his behalf, promoting his GoFundme, and help all assist the economy by buying Trump sneakers (even though they are probably made in China).

    The Lord will spare me and my family from the apocalypse because He will recognize me as helping everyone, even those that wish harm against my family, by seeing us as “Mexicans”, even though we have nothing to do with Mexico, not even the language we originally spoke before coming legally to this country.

    I will offer to wash the sweetest feet, laden with fungi and athlete foot, that come out of those plastic golden boots, which represent the supreme 47th president of the great majority of electors! (That’s the truth in an alternate reality) 99% of Americans voted more than twice to clean the swamp and raise a border wall once and for all.

    The great sneakers represent what is best in America and our superiority in fashion, marketing, style, fund raising and brilliance. All traits Trump exudes and will bring in to every household, because he speaks the truth. No wonder God allowed him to build the biggest social network called the Truth Social.

    Donate to Trump now and enjoy salvation at the day of judgement!

  • makunamatata@discuss.tchncs.detotechnology•Scared of layoffs? Want to fight back? An Introduction To Class Warfare For The Software Engineer
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    10 months ago

    That is an interesting hypothesis that I had not considered but can agree with - it will happen. Not sure if it is happening right now at the scale of ongoing layoffs. It probably is part of it, but another portion is just companies cutting costs to make up for their quarterly numbers to turn on a profit. For the past few years companies have been turning a profit and in order to keep the trend, since last year they’ve been cutting costs and corners where they can. Any strategy to cut costs at this point is game for them, and it is not only the investment in generative AI, but the hope they can make it do with machines and code what humans are doing. In my mind we are probably out a few years from that turning reality for most companies though.

  • makunamatata@discuss.tchncs.detoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing
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    11 months ago

    In agreement with you! I don’t get why the need to justify. First of all life isn’t about fairness, and people and corporations both need money to survive. Individuals and corporations make all the effort to get more for less.

    If there was a need to justify it should be as simple as corporations take things for free all the time, be it tax brakes, labor, IP, whatever and try to get by with it without it being “stealing” it. Artists take ideas, copy, repurpose all the time and get by without “stealing” when they can.

    In the seas one should be reasonable and take what they “need” (actually a want) “for less”, without violence, instilling physical harm, and they are good to go. Life isn’t fair.

    Above all, like you said, people in general want things for less with the least friction. For some people the seas are dangerous and present too much friction to get in and out unscathed, these people will pay to get something. Sailors do not want to pay and accept some of the risks, and for those sailors that know how to do it well the risks and frictions are small.

    There is no need to justify to the ego whether it is stealing or anything else. It is just taking and sharing. And doesn’t the saying goes that “sharing is caring”? ;-)