Question is what do you do then? First, you try to reach profitability. Get out of the red by milking users and reducing costs, but there is little chance to get that really sweet ROI that you dreamt of in the last decade. What do you do next? My guess is that we will see some websites change ownership into some shadier hands in the next years. The personal data collected could still be worth something after all.

Either they are dumb or I am.

Though we’d love to reveal more to you all now, we’re in the process of early testing and feedback, so aren’t ready to share official details just yet.

So they are killing cashflow at this crucial point and any possible replacement is “in the process of early testing and feedback”? WTF? Am I missing something?

the messaging has been consistently toned down in the hopes people would listen.

My guess is its even more than this: deadlines were extended to not let people fall into inaction. The tipping point always close enough so that its dangerous, but still far away enough so that there is still hope. It is a ploy analogous to the fascist “the enemy is strong enough to be dangerous and weak enough to be thoroughly defeated.”

This scene is far more realistic, I think. But as you can tell, it doesn’t play very well with either the audience or the media.

Doing it right now is absolutely tone-deaf.

Its mandated fun. “Users, you have been agitated in the last weeks. We hereby strongly suggest you participate in this thing we have chosen in order for you to have fun again.”

Reddit becomes stale as it goes through the motions when trying to hand out the member berries.

Precisely. I just saw that you have to be on .new or the official app to participate. Oh well…

Constitutional renewal every generation?

As a non-USA-Citizen, this is what always gets me about the originalists at SCOTUS: the idea of changing the constitution to reflect what the majority of US citizen believes is simply not possible anymore, because of outrageous distortions of the process. Given how unequal voters are distributed across states and the effective veto power of very small states, there is no way for the majority of people to do what the originalists demand: adapting the law so that no interpretation is necessary.

What makes originalism and those that represent it so incredible stupid is THAT THEY ADMIT THIS. Scalia used to chuckle in interviews when this was pointed out to him.

This is surprisingly sick funk for the end of my day.

Ach ja, also erstmal auf kommunaler Ebene.

Bei der nächsten Landtagswahl hat sich dann “herausgestellt, dass die Koperation auf der Sachebene durchaus fruchtbar und verlässlich war - zum Wohle der Gemeinden und frei von jeglicher Ideologie”.

Und kurz vor der BT-Wahl 2025 stellt man im Konrad-Adenauer-Haus fest, dass “die Zusammenarbeit auf Landesebene gezeigt hat, dass es vom Personal abhängt. Es gilt: genau hinschauen, mit wem man es im Einzelfall zu tun hat und dann das beste für das Land daraus machen.”

!remindme

Sonnencreme, Sonnencreme, Sonnencreme.

Ich creme mich mittlerweile im Sommer vor dem Gang ins Büro genauso ein, wie im Urlaub vor dem Gang an den Strand. Gibt ein paar Sonnenfluids die schnell einziehen und keine Striemen hinterlassen.

Ich fahre mit denen hier ganz gut. Die ziehen schnell ein und hinterlassen keinen Film auf der Haut. Also schmiert auch nichts in die Stoffe. Und bei mit geht es vorallem um die Handflächen.