They’re capitalists, in that they capitalize on their insider knowledge and send others to jail for doing the same thing.

Oh no, not virtue signaling! There truly is no greater crime! Specifically, it isn’t worse to be an overly-built, soulless chia pet if that’s what you’re thinking. Definitely not.

What an efficient allocation of capital!

Who cares at that point?

This is one of the biggest wastes of time I could imagine.

I like how in the menu the chef is like – and I’m paraphrasing of course – you assholes can’t have bread cuz you don’t deserve it.

The COVID pandemic was the millionth example of this.

Yep sounds like the same problem, it freezes over because it’s not properly sealed. I reached the same conclusion you did and turned off the ice maker.

I’ve had trouble with LG and despite their reported reliability I read that LG is one of the two top brands for refrigerators that can’t hold temperature in a year or two (Samsung was the other). Samsung is the absolute shittiest appliance brand. The previous owner went all Samsung and every appliance has some problem and we’ve already replaced most of them.

Does it freeze over? (I ask because I have a Samsung that freezes over because they didn’t seal the compartment correctly during manufacturing.)

I don’t know about the US, but in the UK, rebuilding would be covered by the homeowner’s buildings insurance.

A lot of these places were dropped from their insurance because insurance companies made the risk calculation.

Edit: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fires-california-palisades-fire-homeowners-insurance-state-farm-fair-losses/

Same for me but with beers

How about “billionaires are edible” or “Tech bros are welfare queens” or “Watch out for a-luigi”?

I agree, but we should at least have them fork over the cash to buy a new dumpster to enshittify every few years. There’s Twitter that people still cling to despite it being a superfund site since at least when Leon bought it.

Make Facebook the next MySpace, make Reddit the next Digg. Make social media sites starve to death from lack of engagement again.

Now we’re doing headlines like this with tech companies in addition to politicians? These fuckers act with impunity because they can.

For some reason, it appears the unbreakable barrier for humanity is switching the fucking social media site you go to.

What would it take for people to consider not looking at Instagram and Facebook? A feed full of snuff videos?

On the dot if I can.

Yeah watch out for that sotware

The thing that gets me every time is actually being funny gets shot in the head instantly in the cross fire.

you want a billionaire owned multimedia ad revenue agency (aka the “news”) to stop hyping the billionaire backed chaos cheeze monkey and the stupid shit it says?

This is exactly why instead of expecting the media to evolve or adapt I encourage people to walk away from corporate news.

I’m not a zealot, so follow it if you like, just know that it has its own goals and one of them is to hook you on its crappy product and convince you that it is the sole arbiter of truth…when it’s really stuffing its billionaire-sponsored narratives down your throat.

The reality is that if the news were in any way objective and about “the truth”, it would steadily maintain reality-based positions over time, but it doesn’t. It adapts based upon what its billionaire owners want and based upon the whims of the electorate – all the while pretending that it does nothing to influence the whims of the electorate when it very clearly does.

It’d help to be more than alarmed and actually take action against the threat.