With planned obselecence they might as well

I’ve been handed a screenplay and it’s just episodes of the Office with the word “AI” scribbled into the margins a few thousand times.

Superman has never died from Kryptonite but he has died from getting punched in the face by a big dude with boney hands.

You need to advertise your service in order for people to use it. If TikTok doesn’t bombard people with ads to come visit them, they can’t report growing user numbers and demand more money from advertisers/investors.

You see this with mainstream media all the time. The network that’s hosting the Super Bowl will run ads day and night for months in advance, reminding people that they’re the channel where you watch the Super Bowl and encouraging you to tune in. News Years is another one. Just wall to wall “Watch TV during New Years!” so they can maximize viewership for this singular mega-event.

Doesn’t look like it.

What’s their marketing budget look like?

It’s just capitalism, baby! Just a business arrangement between two close personal friends in the oil industry. No need to get democracy involved.

he has a honeypot russian wife

USMCA in shambles

Taiwan, lolz

It’s how we ended up with Hillary back in '16. She wrapped herself in her resume and screamed at anyone who questioned what she was doing while on the job.

currently have my first two books published

These fuckers all have a book out. Every single one of them feel the urge to republish the same six self help tips, nestled within some sophomoric hagiography of their childhood.

The point is the UK could have done the same with their North Sea oil.

They could still do it with their highly lucrative network of wind farms under construction.

Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn in debt

The UK has accumulated plenty of valuable capital in this period and spends a sizeable chunk of that accrued debt protecting it.

They can take it back whenever they choose. The Brits simply have a national, state, and local leadership more invested in the well-being of the leisure class than the working class.

https://xkcd.com/1321/

Incidentally, this was posted on January 14th, 2014 - over twelve years ago.

Don’t be a tankie.

The Socialist Fraternal Kiss

People on Lemmy hate when you know any amount of history

A photo taken during the summer of 2022 shows a grinning former president Donald Trump flashing a thumbs up gesture while posing with John Alite, a podcaster and motivational speaker who was once a hitman for the Gambino crime family.