Oh it definitely is a sign of wrongdoing, just not necessarily proof of wrongdoing.

Don’t worry, we’ll get a “CRUSH 👏 THEM 👏 HEAD 👏 FIRST 👏” campaign. That will fix it!

It’s subtle, but when gender dysphoria is framed as a condition to be “cured” and processed through conversion therapy (to return the person “back to normal”), instead of symptoms which are best treated through gender affirmation and transition.

I wonder if you could make an acoustic version of One of these engineered to deflect LRAD frequencies right back to their source

Ask a Capitalist if they believe in competition for their business, especially after it reaches a dominant market position. Free market competition is only a feature in their utopian theory; it never works in practice.

In terms of extractive profitability, it has succeeded spectacularly. What a horrible industry

I believe AWS has a decent degree of autonomy to run itself even though it is a subsidiary of Amazon. Since they’re the ones actually designing and building its AI datacenters, I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a slightly different outlook as the part of the company that sees how the sausage is made.

This looks like a generated image that someone tried to mask with a pixel filter

What can I say, we love our narratives wherein an Original Sin is absolved through sacrifice. I wonder where that comes from?

Ah yes let’s just find a better invasive company that’s willing to spy on the public. That will fix the problem!

I dislike being put above others and celebrated just for existing. You don’t owe me a cheap throwaway gift, I don’t owe you dinner and a slice of cake. Maybe that’s a cynical way of looking at it but I genuinely don’t like the consumeristic aspects nor having that much attention thrown my way. I don’t want to make a big deal out of it. It’s just another day.

I still appreciate if you get me a gift but idk girl 95% of the time that turns into a $10 gift card or me putting in most of the effort in telling you what I want. I’m really bad at gift ideas for myself because if I wanted/needed it that bad, I would have figured out how to get it myself or made peace doing without. Cute socks are always nice though!

Tech companies (like most companies) want people reliant on their products, of course they’re ok with this

Hmm idk maybe I’m being too much of a purist about it but I always considered “slop” in the context of this board to be like, politically illiterate commentary and similar, mostly from libs. It’s not a catch-all for non serious content, but a specific thing in my mind. I personally think it has to cause at least some level of psychic damage to qualify as slop.

I think the memes community is being too much of a purist on what makes a meme, which at its base is just an idea/thought that people are compelled to share with one another. Regardless, if those are the rules they want to enforce over there, fair enough I guess. I think they should point to a different comm for stuff like what you shared here

It’s so emblematic, the idea that the chivalrous titans of industry would tend to the country as shepherds

How is this slop? I quite like it actually, maybe there’s something about the author I don’t know?

To fascists, liberalism is communism

Ah yes, infamous Soviet agent Genghis Khan

Yup, let’s let the industry monolith that’s trying to sell you larger, more expensive vehicles than necessary set rules on what vehicles are legal to sell. Oh, they’ve effectively banned smaller vehicles? They’ve also put in place Byzantine rules and approval processes only a large corporation can navigate without going bankrupt? I’m shocked.

My bad, honestly I just put that 3.5m number as a lower bound, as if it’s any higher, then the relative percentage is even lower.

Plus the sale price doesn’t necessarily indicate profit, which is typically what’s referenced for capital gains tax