While also completely missing the boat on the potential of graphics cards and watching Nvidia and even AMD become massively more relevant in recent years.

And then, to bring us full circle to OP, Microsoft made it’s strategic acquisition of Nokia long after they had squandered enviable market share to Apple and Google 😂 https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/25/11766540/microsoft-nokia-acquisition-costs

Hey, RIM/Blackberry’s CEO went to mobile world Congress in 2010, 3 solid YEARS after the iPhone launched, was dominating and defining the smartphone world and said, “we feel touchscreen is not the future of mobile phones” and rolled out another hybrid touch/keyboard model like the 5 they already had

Blackberry was $150/share as of 2009 with the entire world in front of it. It’s now worth $3.59/share.

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Yeah, that at least can be systematically identified and corrected; the bias and also inaccuracy of judgement of current human officers seems far worse and when combined with the fact non-vehicular safety is seen as a low priority or completely ignored, getting to “good” for safety of non-vehicular traffic is life and death. A few tickets that get waived, or in my city, Portland Oregon, a citizen sued to prove the cameras inaccurate where they were and won vs. engineers, is a small price to pay vs. the current state of zero enforcement and bodies littering crosswalks and cyclists mown down in “bike lanes”.

Right; I’m considering requesting cameras in my city to protect crosswalks, pedestrians and cyclists as none of the laws are currently enforced in any meaningful way. One of the most cost-reasonable, effective ways to do that would be to have automatic cameras but the lecherous vendors that want 20-30% of the cut and authoritarian state are two massive concerns I have that make me, at the cost of my own daily safety, hesitant to call this stuff out.

South Korea mandated internet explorer for all purchase checkout until relatively recently maybe the last 5 years. They had all these pieces built around it so checking out at a website you would have to prove your identity using national ID and then only IE would work.

Be very careful what you ask for.

At the rate we’re going in the US, anti science and antisocial, clubbing one’s next meal or foes and eating the meat raw for lack of other tools is not far off current trajectory.

It’s the principle that short-term shareholders have priority above all else–which is a fallacy–that drives these behaviors, start-ups have also always been dependent on VC who require more onerous terms and the growth of tech has almost blended these two as to be inseparable this point.

Companies are required to act in the best interest of shareholders legally–but this does not define they must enshittify their product or service no matter what in the short term as it destroys in in the long run, from Boeing to Google. There is a clear case waiting a public company willing to be brave enough to fight it, that the long-term interest of shareholders should be equally(it not more heavily) weighted in decision-making. It would remove so much awfulness that companies approach the world with–from not caring about compliance, safety, quality,etc.

Roll against your wisdom to not cast lvl 3 conjure gas line

If you fail your wisdom check You’ll need dex of 18 to not start a fire.

To protect his followers from the capitalists, surely…

It clearly should not be allowed for private ownership of the means of truth creation; education, news media, etc. but the alternative is either state control, or praying that a true grassroots, democratic and consistent news media takes firm and permanent it will not only start but continue. Small wonder the latter hasny had many chances to be experimented with since the chaos out of what is almost always a revolution means when power is taken or “order restored” it again is either capitalists with means to produce news media or the state.

In 2025, costs of production are effectively zero, so it could be done, but now the monster of misinformation–which also has costs of production of zero–is a well oiled and established.

Where do you go from here?

It’s not fat, it’s festively plump!

Yeah, I just closed the agency investigating my company so there is no enforcement mechanism. Legal alludes to a system I now own and control because it’s better for me that way. Going to pass a few joke statues or pardon myself if there are any teeth left. Thanks fucking peasant.

Clown shows can be funny. This is like watching pallbearers drop caskets at a children’s hospital funeral.

It’s not necessarily you getting older; there is a fundamental difference in goals, aims and quality of software now. 99% of major software is either funded by VC or incumbent monopolists who are interested in extractions primarily and establishing moats, barriers to free and fair use, and any way possible to monetize an interaction. This is why those of us who lived through the actual innovation stages aren’t excited anymore as it’s clear this is not “progress” and the warning flags are there from the first marketing pitch.

This entire timeline though was part of the plan, it was never going to be free/cheap, functional and easily accessible forever. We are in the frog boiling phase now that doesn’t end until we take back some of what has been lost.

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Jack black isn’t funny at all. He’s worse, incredibly fucking irritating and annoying and a try hard. He epitomizes mainstream US “comedy”; obvious, loud, overstating the delivery of jokes with overwrought physical humor. He and Horatio Sanz must have studied under the same Sithlord. Can’t stand him.