Well, it’s one smartass that spun up his own system and that reports 39m users.

A different kind of spam, looks like.

• It may be counting Threads / Bsky participants
• More likely fediverse broke through to the awareness of bit fleet maintainers…

Mandatory tooling of German electricians!

Amazon is extremely data-centric at that management level. If he’s not showing hard data, then the data he has go against the narrative he’s pushing.

Nah. Zorg was competent.

Subnautica; at the beginning your pod drops into the surface of the ocean, then you open the hatch and you climb out… to see an infinite expanse of blue sea under a blue sky.

That triggered so many memories for me, I had to take a minute. The color grading on that scene was on point.

One of the Quake games has a section where you get captured, then put on a conveyor belt where you see other people in front of you get mutilated, then that happens to you. That scene almost triggered a dissociative episode.

The original ending of Mass Effect 3 brought me to tears because the Clint Mansell music meshed so well with the on-screen segments, it really moved me. That said I also like the remastered ending; the latter is like the last few chapters of Lord Of The Rings, the former is like an American movie ending.

To your last point: money being created != Wealth/value creation; it’s more like wealth redistribution (if you create a thousand bucks out of thin air, in an economy of a trillion it’s small potatoes - but it does add up fast and affects everyone).

There absolutely is value in banking, but it’s not nearly enough as much as advertised.

There’s Marxist-Lenninists, and there’s Lenninist-Marxists, and both groups hate each other… Much like the Monty Python sketch…

I found out that https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ explains a lot of the dysfunctions that one finds in an office / corporate environment.

Luckily I work in a jurisdiction that would tear the whole C-team a new one if that happened.

Capitalism is relatively good, gives performance & frugality incentives. Unrestrained late-stage capitalism… not so much. Think of it like oxygen. At 21% you’re great (and need it to live), at 90%+ you spontaneously combust.

In part you can see this already - there are a bunch of servers that most lemmy instances have defederated from. In these cases information flow is one way - f.e. lemmmy.world doesn’t get any updates from foo.baz, doesn’t provide search results, communities, etc.

Subscription would make sense when the added value you provide is 1) availability guarantees, 2) performance guarantees, 3) membership guarantees, 4) moderation / content filtering options

Man, I’ve been on unix systems since, oh, 1994, but I’ve never messed with my .inputrc … may need to take the dive…

Well, it’s the Apple subreddit. I’m pretty sure that they only get to keep the name under the control of the company.