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My first genie wish is for the EU to declare Windows 7 public domain and set up a team to maintain security and driver updates for it.

Found the Karen

The sheer brass-neckedness of the motherfuckers at Visa/MC/Amex to insist that they should be allowed to maintain a cartel charging 3% of every transaction that ever happens and that it's not fair for central banks to offer a better way.

Incidentally, Brazil are far from unique; see G-Cash in Philippines, KHQR in Cambodia, PromptPay in Thailand, etc...

Who counts stairs going down?

That would just be weird, who does that

I’m not autistic, but if there’s an odd number of steps I have to go up them twice to make them even

This comment highlights a fundamental misunderstanding on how society should tolerate companies operating.

Up til about ten years ago, doing mass layoffs was seen as a sign of company in trouble; it scared shareholders and it made talent less likely to apply to your company.

Then enough of them did it often enough that the stigma fell away and it became a thing you did to get rid of underperformers, scare people into working harder, and separate the wheat from the chaff. Now it's so commonplace that I've heard execs (in another profitable multinational tech company) talk about it like it's just what you're supposed to do as part of good governance.

The bit that infuriates me is how Facebook (and others) also do this, and claims that they're too big to police everything. Like, you might not be able to check every single thing that gets posted, but it's definitely not beyond your powers to check everything that your platform actively promotes at people who didn't request it.

Wouldn't it be nice to think that proving they were rigging the ratings, would stop them doing it?

Basic scrutiny? Like it usually turns out that “capacity” is measured by a self-serving and short-sighted metric, and you could easily find space and resources for more if there were the political will to do so.

it’s still purring like a kitten.

…should a phone be doing that?