I'm sure they're watching the reddit situation very closely.

Capitalism has robbed us of more than we could ever even imagine. To the point where most people don't even realize they've been robbed. It's tragic.

We live in a society where amoral, faceless corporations are more valued than actual human life. And those corporations have so much power over people, and their cognition, that the majority have been tricked into consenting to this perverted system against all of their interests. And I would love for someone to explain to me why there should ever be a distinction between the people producing something, and the people/corporations that own the means of that production. Why should these be two different groups, and why in the FUCK would the class that doesn't do any actual goddamn work, make 300x more money? It's fucking disgusting.

But on the other hand, they said they were going to lower taxes. And also, trans people exist, so........

This is the most lukewarm, wishy washy, "enlightened centrist" shit I have ever read. Like,

So its a long attrition based slug war which can only be fought when we love our fellow Americans and stop listening to hate everywhere around us.

???

What are you fucking talking about? This is some next level naivety.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I haven't been back to reddit since the blackouts started. No desire to.

"Landed gentry"... Because that's what I think about when I think about unpaid employees.

Can we stop trying to coin cute terms like "enshittification"? What that term describes is just capitalism working as intended.

There is a term that describes this behavior that we've been using for at least decades (to describe behavior that has happened since the inception of capitalism): rent seeking.

I'm pretty sure these employees weren't being forced to attend. So it would be more like you getting pissed off because some of your fellow employees decided to organize a get together at a bar to watch the World Cup. And, because you don't like soccer, you decide nobody should be able to attend.

If you are getting this upset and offended by "Peaches Christ..." By those words. By a silly pseudonym of a performer... Maybe it's time to reevaluate your life, and what you consider important.

Are you also offended by the title "Jesus Christ Superstar"?

None of this was happening at work, but if you keep pretending that you don't know that, you can probably get some other ignorant people pissed off about it too

You got paid, because it’s required by law that you do.

That's not true. Maybe it varies from state to state, I dunno, but I live in an otherwise very blue state, and there's no statute on the books saying that a private employer must pay for time missed for jury duty.

They are required to allow you to go if you're summoned, but beyond that, it's their choice. Obviously, most (if not all) choose not to.

I got called up once and was picked for a case... It was dope. Luckily, it was during break when I was in college, so I didn't miss any (real) work. And it was only for maybe four days. And it was for a pretty boring insurance fraud case...

But it was still super interesting. Really cool experience.

Real life dystopia shit.

To anyone considering this, just remember that there is a reason that the FDA exists. Fish antibiotics aren't FDA regulated, so you really have no idea what you're taking and how much.

Who would know that? Surely not the average user, since we weren't all invited to this meeting, and everyone who was would be under NDA...

Nah.

I haven't really messed with Lemmy at all yet, but Kbin is almost exactly like signing up for/using reddit. if you can use reddit, you can figure out Kbin very easily.

So, because us laymen can't think of exactly how they would do it, that means it's not possible?

The best (and often only) indicator of future behavior is past behavior. And if we go on that, I think we all know how Meta looks.

You would only ever know what Meta would be willing to tell you anyway. Also, there's the whole NDA thing.

Massive corporations never "throw money" at people or things without strings. I'd be very wary about what taking money from Meta would mean.

It's time for people to stop ignorantly railing against nuclear.

Fucking thank you. Are people really this gullible? Maybe I have a different perspective because I've been free from Facebook for like 15 years now, but do these people really think that Meta/Facebook wants to be nice to its competitors? Suddenly they're going to give up the business model that has made them one of the biggest, most profitable corporations that has ever existed on this planet, and do the exact opposite of what they did to get there? LOL.