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@evacide having heroes instead of honoring the ideals sets us up for this. I wish it weren't true, but the reality is that humans are complicated.
To be clear, this is not an argument that minimizes what Chavez did. It is an argument that we make a mistake by attaching lofty ideals to human beings.
@csgraves @GossiTheDog it has, and that was a function of losing that revenue. Or, rather, was the predictable outcome. They might have chosen to reduce quality as a means of robbing their future even if the revenue didn't drop. Plenty of companies have done that, too. But we never got the chance to find out in this case.
@GossiTheDog the order of events is true, but they were a dying company either way. Their revenue stream largely depended on social media companies promoting their content. When those companies concluded that promoting links that took eyeballs away from them was counter to their own engagement goals, they took that revenue stream away.
The AI pivot was mostly the "burn the furniture" cost-cutting strategy that dying companies engage in as a last ditch effort to stay alive, hoping that something will change in that borrowed time to make it possible to have a long term strategy again.
There are plenty of bad AI business decisions out there. This one probably isn't one of them.
@lowqualityfacts š¶ It's waning moon, hallelujah it's waning moon...
@bodhipaksa @_the_cloud shouldn't it have been in Helena?
@molly0xfff nice of them to think of you.
@lowqualityfacts it implies "Mount" is a verb...
@evacide me. And I know a few people who aren't here but would also be interested. (In case that data point is relevant to you.)
@MarvinFreeman @thomasareed @dangoodin Windows has gotten worse in recent years. That doesn't make it harder than Linux overall.
Once everything is working, Linux Mint is roughly as easy as Windows as a daily driver. But when things aren't working, Linux (even Mint) gets much harder much more quickly.
@MarvinFreeman @thomasareed @dangoodin Linux is much much easier than it was just a few years ago. It's also still not good enough for the supermajority of users.
Now, did you read the recipe
And did you knead the dough then just let it be
Just like the instructions said?
And did you make sure that the dough was warm
Or was it hot enough to cause some harm?
That'll kill the yeast so dead.
Well I know you left it in the sun
And I know you thought you'd make a bun
That dough just wouldn't rise
No doubling in size
Now I think you need to start again
Even though it's really such a pain
I'll hit you with the same refrain
I think your starter died.
@mattblaze @x_cli There's nothing like hearing what people say about you when they think you're not able to hear. š¬