Trump had nothing to do with this. All tech stocks dropped today. Shit article.
Women are livestock to him.
Twitch builds and maintains the following infrastructure:
- Website + web video player
- iOS App
- Android App
- Fire TV app
- Playstation 4 app
- Xbox One app
- Chromecast app
- Apple TV app
- Real-time chat backend
- Search services
- Distributed video storage backend services (VODs)
- Content recommendation services
- Account services (streamer accounts and viewer accounts)
- Monetization services (subscriptions, bits)
- Twitch Studio + Soundtrack apps for creators
All of this has to run at Twitch scale (140 million MAUs)
And these are just the technical teams. Then add on UX designers, marketing, product and business development, not to mention Business Intelligence data scientists.
Not just "all is right". They see this and think "this is what God wants."
Ah yes, the famous cancel culture that the Right hates so much. I'm sure they'll turn on Elon for this.
You're describing the poverty trap. Its very real. I'm wealthy now as well, but I remember a time when I took the subway 90 mins round trip to my job, and the fare cost almost an hour's pay. So I'd put in 9.5 hours to work an 8 hour shift and my takehome pay was for 7 hours.
The battle for Omegle has been lost, but the war against the Internet rages on. Virtually every online communication service has been subject to the same kinds of attack as Omegle; and while some of them are much larger companies with much greater resources, they all have their breaking point somewhere. I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection. If that sounds like a bad idea to you, please consider donating to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that fights for your rights online.
I worked at an Abercrombie in college and it was just as exploitative as it sounds. We had to wear Abercrombie-only clothing to work and... you guessed it - they didn't provide it. We had to buy it. As if that weren't bad enough, it had to be "in season", which meant they forced us to buy a new outfit every quarter for the priviledge to work minimum wage retail. They claimed we could choose instead to wear "equivalent" clothing if we didn't want to pay. I once wore reef leather flip flops and they made me cut the 1cm rubber tags off before letting me on the floor.
They ended up getting sued for this practice and about 10 years later I got a settlement check for $7.
I have plenty of other crazy blood boiling stories from that job.
Providers are free, of course, to not pass these fees through to consumers to differentiate their pricing and simplify their Label display if they believe it will make their service more attractive to consumers and ensure that consumers are not surprised by unexpected charges.
This official response is brillaint. "Feel free at any time to just stop charging bullshit fees."
It seems like the danger here is correlation vs causation.
It might just be that parents who are more prone to producing children with developmental delays also happen to be more likely to put those children in front of a screen to manage their behavior.
I'm not sure the data supports the conclusion this article is making.
I like my partners like I like my filesystems.
FAT and 32.
Ticketing people who don't pay for parking is "bullying?"
This is pretty insulting to people who have actually suffered from real bullying. There's plenty of real problems in the world to be righteously angry about. Maybe let's not post shitty Facebook memes on Lemmy.