• ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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    643 months ago

    Seventy-five fucking US dollars per month? To hear about how the ruination of apps is good, actually? I can remember when yearly subscriptions to magazines were like $12, fuck’s sake.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    523 months ago

    Is it bad?

    $75 per month?

    Yeah, it’s pretty fuckin’ bad.

    This feels like the economic equivalent of climate change deniers promoting forest fires as, exclusively and inherently, a good thing because they ‘make all that new growth’ after this-is-fine

    • @pooberbee@lemmy.ml
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      223 months ago

      I truly cannot wait to see how evolution adapts all the trees to being constantly on fire.

    • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
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      213 months ago

      Financial Times actually as good articles which is why I read them on archive. No way I’m paying for the newspaper of the ruling class, not even if I could afford it

  • angelsomething
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    303 months ago

    If your cherry pie has even a little bit poop in it, it’s a poop cake. Not hard to grasp.

  • nasezero [comrade/them]
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    243 months ago

    $75 for a Financial Times subscription?! Why spend that much when for just $10 a month, I’ll hold you down, put a funnel in your ear, and squeeze pudding directly into your skull think-about-it

  • mushroom [he/him]
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    223 months ago

    mostly unrelated but i hate the phrase enshittification. it’s so ugly and reddit-esque. why can’t we just call it content decay or something like that instead

    • @HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      143 months ago

      Because breaking “civil” tone gives it impact.

      Everyone in the US of a certain age remembers the fried-egg anti-drug ad (and perhaps the even more aggressive follow on a few years later) exactly because it took a much bolder tone than typical messaging on the subject.

      • hello_hello [they/them, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        fried-egg anti-drug ad

        Oh right, the ableist ad that explicitly implied that people who take drugs are unintelligent brain fried losers, wasn’t that in the same era where they told kids to “just say no”? It didn’t break the civil tone at all. Stigmatizing drug use was the civil tone back then. Treating people who use drugs with dignity was seen in the popular media as “enabling” (spoiler alert: it still is seen as that).

        Enshittification doesn’t break the civil tone at all, you’re just whining in a blogpost or bad news article about your favorite nonfree app choosing profit over you when they literally all do that.

  • D61 [any]
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    223 months ago

    Not paying 75 a month for a one word article that says, “Yes.”

  • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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    183 months ago

    I did 4 motorcycles to access the advice link any it sent me a 5th. I don’t want to look at any more scooters! You’re wrong! Wrong!

    Ok rant aside does that site hate vpns?

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    143 months ago

    I mean… They’re not wrong. Enshittification of apps (and every other aspect of daily life) is in fact positive to the people a publication like the Financial Times is written for. It sucks ass for the rest of us but for them it means exciting new revenue flows.

    That’s the good thing about the business press, they are much more honest when they’re training to themselves then when they are talking to the proles.