I was wondering whether that could cause issues for the limited servers available, like when the mass migration from reddit happened. Would it be bad to add more accounts that would be mostly dormant? And if one does create a throwaway would it be better to delete the account afterwards.
I would say that they’re creating the short supply, and the real issue is that we’re able to charge money for something people need to live. That almost always causes exploitation.
Normally when a price for a good/service is too high, we can stop buying until prices go down. With necessities though, if we stop buying, we die. That means landlords and home sellers don’t have to adjust prices much.
I feel the solution isn’t to make a shit tonne more homes. It’s instead to stop charging money for homes. Unfortunately this isn’t going to happen willingly.
I have not found any news article on this on a whim. Because my friends and family, I need to use Facebook Messenger, and Messenger Lite was a OK client - lightweight, no unnecessary features, etc., compared to the regular Messenger app....
I don’t see the problem. You can just take a multi action penalty for your second action. In fact, I think there’s an edge that reduces the penalty somewhere in the book.
Down with sprints! Down with weekly retros! Down with scrum masters! Down with burn down charts! Just give me a feature to work on and a tool to track tickets. Everything else can fuck off.
20,000 American Nazis held a rally in Madison Square Garden. Facism was quite popular in the United States all the way til WW2 (and continued to be for 83 years afterwards).
This doesn’t make sense unless you sign up for every service. And at that point, are you an idiot or something? Just cancel subscriptions that you aren’t watching a show on.
That said, I’m not defending streaming services. Having so many of the damn things sucks. Just don’t pay for all of them.
A lot of large companies and executives have investments in real estate. If everyone stopped using offices all of a sudden, they would lost a bunch of money because the space wouldn’t be in demand anymore.
I don’t think there’s some shadowy Illuminati organisation behind it. They are pretty blatent when they manipulate things.
That said, I do think there are a lot of investors and analysts that have come to the same conclusion and are talking to each other and passing info to their clients.
Sure, but if everyone who can goes remote, all that rent money dries up. Most also don’t directly own buildings to rent, but rather have investments in companies that do. If those other companies go under then they lose money on investments. I don’t have any inside knowledge though, this is just the conclusion I’ve been able to come to. Other than just being control freaks.
I definitely agree that they do stupid things because of short term gains and narcissism. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they’re just grumpy bosses mad that it’s harder to boss people around.
I also worry though about portraying executives as buffoons. Most of their short term decisions that look stupid make a lot of sense when you look at it through the lense of them just not caring that it makes life worse for other people. It’s honestly probably a combination of a bunch of dumb and greedy things.
I once speculated to a friend about 15 years ago that eventually solid state storage space would be so fast that it could serve as active memory. I can’t wait to tell him.
Former President Trump criticized the judge presiding over his 2020 election case, just days after she warned him against making any “inflammatory statements” that could intimidate witnesses or prejudice the jury pool....
A shroom community was removed from lemmy.world as it was considered “illegal” content by the admins. The logic behind this is boggling, to say the least....
The average asking rent in Canada reached another record high of $2,078 in July. Rents increased 8.9% annually, the fastest pace of growth of the past three months. The 1.8% increase in average asking rents over June represented the fastest month-over-month growth of the past eight months.
There are a lot of news articles about “back to the office”, but they recirculate the same bad ideas. Let’s provide some new ideas for the media to circulate. It may also have the effect of making the office less terrible....
I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...
I wish we had a good term. “Content Creator” is meaningless and allows vapid instagram and tiktok people to slip in. Film maker has some serious connotations with Hollywood and movies that will give people the wrong idea. Media creator kinda works, but it isn’t specific to what type of media. YouTuber is strongly coupled to a corporation, so that sucks. Memeist? Video maker?
Your aren’t, it’s all good. I’m just wondering what problems someone could have with this setup. Nothing comes to mind other than not liking small bathrooms.
Is creating throwaway accounts on lemmy bad?
I was wondering whether that could cause issues for the limited servers available, like when the mass migration from reddit happened. Would it be bad to add more accounts that would be mostly dormant? And if one does create a throwaway would it be better to delete the account afterwards.
The Chinese Room is developing Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 (www.eurogamer.net)
Brigham Young University Adds Explicit Ban on 'Same-Sex Romantic Behavior' to Honor Code (www.advocate.com)
Students say Brigham Young University is policing this behavior even more than its parent church does....
The elites are lying about the danger! (startrek.website)
Starfield is Bethesda's Least Buggiest Game to Date, Say Sources (insider-gaming.com)
The flying car completes first ever inter-city flight (Official Video) (www.youtube.com)
Secret Service Agents Were in Contact With Far-Right Oath Keepers - A new report reveals members of the Secret Service were in communication with the group’s radical leader, Stewart Rhodes (newrepublic.com)
US slap sanctions on formerly CIA-backed Syrian rebels (responsiblestatecraft.org)
Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)
Is Airbnb fuelling gentrification? (tvo.org)
Written by Iman Sadeghi and Sourav Ray • TVO
Change Rule (lemmy.world)
Meta discontinues Messenger Lite for Android, it will be unavailable after Sep 18. Users need to install regular Messenger app instead (beehaw.org)
I have not found any news article on this on a whim. Because my friends and family, I need to use Facebook Messenger, and Messenger Lite was a OK client - lightweight, no unnecessary features, etc., compared to the regular Messenger app....
NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 | New Ray Reconstruction Enhances Ray Tracing with AI (www.youtube.com)
Read more: nvidia.com/…/nvidia-dlss-3-5-ray-reconstruction/
Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store (blog.trampolinetales.com)
Canada game plans for U.S. "authoritarian shift"
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sweater rule (media.discordapp.net)
Do you see Black and Blue, or White and Gold? (lemmy.world)
Kinda hard to stay realistic when literal magic exists, no? (ttrpg.network)
Very unpopular opinion I think (feddit.de)
Can you please activate your webcams?...
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Strict anti-war people in nutshell [Rule] (pbs.twimg.com)
Sometimes a war is justified, and coming to the aid of an ally getting invaded is a damn good justification....
No more YouTube recommendations on Android if video history is turned off (lemmy.world)
This is explained on this support answer...
ProtonDB now has filters for PC and Steam Deck reports (www.gamingonlinux.com)
ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule (arstechnica.com)
Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits (9to5mac.com)
why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office?
I have posted this on Reddit (askeconomics) a while back but got no good replies. Copying it here because I don’t want to send traffic to Reddit....
ULTRARAM may be a silly name but it's the holy grail for memory tech and means your PC could hibernate for over 1,000 years (www.pcgamer.com)
I once speculated to a friend about 15 years ago that eventually solid state storage space would be so fast that it could serve as active memory. I can’t wait to tell him.
Ohio? rule (lemm.ee)
Trump criticizes judge after he’s warned against ‘inflammatory statements’ (thehill.com)
Former President Trump criticized the judge presiding over his 2020 election case, just days after she warned him against making any “inflammatory statements” that could intimidate witnesses or prejudice the jury pool....
Javascript can create atomic bombs (programming.dev)
Please fix Rule 1.
A shroom community was removed from lemmy.world as it was considered “illegal” content by the admins. The logic behind this is boggling, to say the least....
The Main Lesson From ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Should Be ‘People Hate Microtransactions’ (www.forbes.com)
If reception to Baldur’s Gate says anything, it’s that people hate microtransactions in their AAA games.
Rentals.ca August 2023 Rent Report (i.imgur.com)
The average asking rent in Canada reached another record high of $2,078 in July. Rents increased 8.9% annually, the fastest pace of growth of the past three months. The 1.8% increase in average asking rents over June represented the fastest month-over-month growth of the past eight months.
What would get you "back to the office"?
There are a lot of news articles about “back to the office”, but they recirculate the same bad ideas. Let’s provide some new ideas for the media to circulate. It may also have the effect of making the office less terrible....
What's a 'dirty word' that you hate hearing when it's used to describe something or someone?
I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...
Toilet in the kitchen 🚽🔪 (i.imgur.com)