Yup. If you are bought by anything with “capital” or “equity” in its name you are fucked.

All business have to care about profit or they won’t be in business for long. Also if you want employees to get good pay/benefits and such they have to charge more and in turn you can’t shop for the cheapest.

That said I think the concern comes when they start trying to squeeze every last cent out regardless of the customer relationship and long term image. As soon as a company goes public you now have a board that will get rid of you if you don’t push stock values up another percent. Even if you want to have long term growth and goodwill the board is pushing for profit growth targets this quarter and they pay mostly in shares too. I find the best corporate customer/profit balance comes from private firms.

They are great socks, my favorites. I can’t wear the things out. They are an example of paying up front to save in the long run.

Too bad they are so expensive though. Out of my budget.

Their tools though have gotten crazy expensive.

People are very willing to donate other’s time

I got banned from a bunch of subreddits because I had the nerve to leave a single comment in a conspiracy sub (I was calling one of them out). It was done by automods, no humans taking context into account. All of a sudden I got a stream of messages telling me I was banned.

Sick of reddit

97.2 million daily active users

More friends! More allies!

You’d be right, goddammit

It will take more than 10 yrs to repair the damage being done to our gov.

I wonder if we’ll ever see amendments to the constitution, it has been a long time. I’d like to see corporations declared to not have rights as if they were citizens.

Ukraine will likely cede territory but not a total surrender. It would give both sides an exit.

The US falls behind more countries in average lifespan, education and avg income.

It is like road rage videos. I hate road rage. I hope they lose their license. But I can’t watch them because they pointlessly get me worked up.

They don’t have to look like point sources that feel like they are burning your retina.

A combo of “it is in many places” and the press thrives on droomscrolling

You have to explain to them how vaccines work. I’m waiting for them to turn on antibiotics next. Soon we’ll be shaking rattles and swallowing toads to cure diseases.

If these people were around 50 yrs ago we’d still have polio and smallpox.

I only saw him in concert once.