The other side of the coin is that customers aren’t obligated to buy. There’s always a limit to how expensive you can make a product/service before people will simply stop paying for it. Trying to find that balance point can be damned difficult.
Many people do this.
Many people are insane.
The loyal cult is the result of Stockholm syndrome.
If you are a founder of a website or software company that is already open to the public: fuck you. We know you are going to be pulling shady shit later to monetize your users.
If you are a founder of a company making a new widget that you just invented, which isn’t for sale yet: you’re cool. Just don’t enshittify the thing later.
When the people end up with nothing left to lose, things tend to get exceptionally shitty for a few generations. Then it’s a die toss to figure out if what comes after that is any better or not.
Doesn’t even need tariffs. Could just take away their tax exemption.
I just want static html webpages back. The sheer volume of scripts that run just to display text these days drives me nuts.
Uh huh. All evils in the middle east are Israel’s fault. And if not them, than the Americans. Sunni vs Shiite violence has killed more people in the area than the Americans and Israelis combined, and started over a 1000 years ago, but somehow that’s the Americans and Israelis fault too.
But hey, don’t let reality’s shades of grey ruin your pretty black and white imaginary picture.
So, ignoring the fact that “Muslim” describes one’s faith, not race, do you honestly believe that a Muslim majority Palestine is going to drastically more tolerant than all the other Muslim majority countries in the area? What signs are there that would point to that being the case?
I’m not. I never was. I have no idea why you keep bringing it up.
Do you not read the context of comments you replied to? The guy I was responding to specifically said he hopes that what’s happening to Palestinians happens to the Israelis.
And you keep ignoring the point that it doesn’t fucking matter. You can’t solve genocide with more genocide.
Decolonization can be done peacefully.
50 years ago you might have had a chance to make it happen, since most Israeli people would have been born elsewhere. Now you have multiple generations of people born and raised in Israel. They have nowhere else to go.
And you’ll have to forgive me for being skeptical about a Muslim majority Palestine being tolerant of religious differences if they regained control of the whole area.
What fantasy land do you live in where the involuntary dismantling of a country is ever a peaceful process?
I feel like I’m talking to a bot. All of your responses are at best tangentially related to what I say.
You’re getting down voted because you’ve missed the point. It doesn’t matter why the current situation is happening, calling for genocide as a response to genocide makes you just as guilty as the people you hate.
The truth is, you’ve completely ignored my point. Genocide as a response to genocide solves nothing.
Or here’s a novel thought: how about we start hoping for bad shit to not happen? The cycle of revenge and “I deserve this land because X” is how we ended up in this situation in the first place.
There’s nothing funnier to me than the jargon you get from “audiophile” gear, especially when it comes to stuff in the digital domain. I’ve seen “audiophile” network switches.
If you want to play the blame game, the blame falls on everyone. The right is pushing to make things actively worse, the center is willing to just put up with whatever the current status quo is, and the left would rather spend all their time attacking one another for being the wrong brand of left, rather than actually go out and do something productive.