like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.
We’ve let our companies grow too large, giving them the ability to put the screws on us. Also competition isn’t really happening in many fields, as ask the companies are owned by pretty much the same people.
Competition goes way down when all the different companies are owned by a very small set of huge companies. And for these companies it’s easy to setup cartels and just simply not compete and jack up the prices. Competition happens when the companies must make a profit or die, not when conglomerates can trust that they’re the only game in town.
According to a government press release on Tuesday afternoon, the authorities have located the damaged point in the Balticconnector natural gas pipeline. In addition, there is damage to the communication cable between the countries....
Finland at the final step. One of current ruling parties is a populist conservative one with openly racist views. And our right wing parties are sucking their dicks cause together they can bash some unions. A fucking disgrace.
I don’t this is the reason. If a good portion of the users didn’t want those things, they’d be downvoted to heck. It’s more likely that a part of the reddit refugees didn’t stick around.
It’s not just that they don’t want their ads next nazi crap, it’s that they don’t want to put ads on a platform that has nazi crap. You make a platform friendly to nazis, you lose advertising.
Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?
like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.
Gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia broken, Russia is the likely culprit (yle.fi)
According to a government press release on Tuesday afternoon, the authorities have located the damaged point in the Balticconnector natural gas pipeline. In addition, there is damage to the communication cable between the countries....
Accurate. (files.catbox.moe)
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Lemmy is losing users (programming.dev)
How can we make it more popular?
Two brands suspend advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content (www.cnn.com)