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Absolutego said:
Uber and Lyft are still financially insolvent, gas prices have only made the charade more apparent.
My pick for the real domino, though, is all the food delivery apps. Postmates and Grubhub are currently burning through seed funding to spend 125% of per-user revenue on advertising to grow the user base. That's the scam that dominated the 2010s and has already resulted in a few places like WeWork going out of business. But it's a super widespread way to keep app-based startups in perpetual funding mode.
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How are those services different from, say, pizza delivery?
 
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The only bright spot in these dark times is watching the shills die inside every day as they spew obvious lies through clenched teeth. A bunch of terrible people are not having fun, even though they are nominally getting their way.

Are they getting tired of winning?
 
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northstar747 said:
@Gehenna So the buzz in your line of work is that the blue party doesnt want to address the recession.

So wouldnt this recession give the political parties some to make hay over? Same with abortion, or mass shootings.

Fuck god know people here see everything as a glow op.

why manufacture a crises when when you got plenty to chose from.

Also why is big tech playing minstry of truth of economic issues? I can understand covering for hunter biden
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Mass shootings are something they can control. If you want to buy into the whole FBI setting these shooters up to commit the act. Then control or influence the investigation and media coverage.

I think they feel they can do the same for covid and pox, but not really.

They can't really control the economy. They can attempt to but it can blow up in their faces. And the economy is something everyone deals with in their everyday lives. Bringing it up would point the blame at them. Regardless of the spin.
 
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Flan Handler said:
The only bright spot in these dark times is watching the shills die inside every day as they spew obvious lies through clenched teeth. A bunch of terrible people are not having fun, even though they are nominally getting their way.

Are they getting tired of winning?
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They're not suffering any consequences for it, and probably never will.
 
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The Last Stand said:
How are those services different from, say, pizza delivery?
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Dominos pays the dude to drive around the neighborhood and deliver pizzas. Postmates offers him a cut and makes him an independent contractor.
In the former case, when gas prices go up and people are ordering out less b/c bad economy, you have to maybe raise a dude's wages. At worst you fire him. In the latter case, because you've been posturing about your solvency from the beginning, and because all your employees are independent contractors to save $$, your entire workforce starts to quit because the math is no longer in your favor, and the only way to prevent that is to throw money at them. Money you don't have because the scam has been publicized and aging gen xers aren't willing to throw you another round of seed funding.
 
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Absolutego said:
Uber and Lyft are still financially insolvent, gas prices have only made the charade more apparent.
My pick for the real domino, though, is all the food delivery apps. Postmates and Grubhub are currently burning through seed funding to spend 125% of per-user revenue on advertising to grow the user base. That's the scam that dominated the 2010s and has already resulted in a few places like WeWork going out of business. But it's a super widespread way to keep app-based startups in perpetual funding mode.
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I think you are both correct, but it won't just be Uber, Lyft and Netflix. Twitter doesn't make money...Facebook and Google both rely on advertising scams for the cash flow. Is there a tech company that doesn't directly sell you something like Apple, Microsoft or Steam that actually makes a real profit?
 
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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
I think you are both correct, but it won't just be Uber, Lyft and Netflix. Twitter doesn't make money...Facebook and Google both rely on advertising scams for the cash flow. Is there a tech company that doesn't directly sell you something like Apple, Microsoft or Steam that actually makes a real profit?
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Facebook is LOSING money this quarter. Maybe because of their failed VR headset being more expensive? Maybe because boomers aren't viable enough to sustain growth? Who knows.
 
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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
I think you are both correct, but it won't just be Uber, Lyft and Netflix. Twitter doesn't make money...Facebook and Google both rely on advertising scams for the cash flow. Is there a tech company that doesn't directly sell you something like Apple, Microsoft or Steam that actually makes a real profit?
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IBM. They're not really in the consumer space. Mainly the professional one.
 
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tehpope said:
IBM. They're not really in the consumer space. Mainly the professional one.
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IBM's hilarious because at some point in the mid 1980's, after the whole saga with Apple and Microsoft, they collectively decided "we're done dealing with public customers" and proceeded to carve out a fortune from it.
 
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Absolutego said:
IBM's hilarious because at some point in the mid 1980's, after the whole saga with Apple and Microsoft, they collectively decided "we're done dealing with public customers" and proceeded to carve out a fortune from it.
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What's worse is that IBM found out a lonnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggg time ago that the margins on "consulting" with the government is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy higher then making crap ever was. And even then they are kind of shitty at it. Their products also sucked so much they had to buy out Redhat to try to survive for another 10 years.
 
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What's worse is that IBM found out a lonnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggg time ago that the margins on "consulting" with the government is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy higher then making crap ever was. And even then they are kind of shitty at it. Their products also sucked so much they had to buy out Redhat to try to survive for another 10 years.
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Don't even get me started on the damage IBM has done to the FOSS scene by acquiring RedHat.
SystemD is now in ubuntu and fedora, fucking feds. everything's gonna be monitored going forward.
 
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What's worse is that IBM found out a lonnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggg time ago that the margins on "consulting" with the government is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy higher then making crap ever was. And even then they are kind of shitty at it. Their products also sucked so much they had to buy out Redhat to try to survive for another 10 years.
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They also sell lots of Access to Watson, which I am not sure of the actual value with., especially because I think most corporations rich enough to purchase that service is probably full of retards who unironically ask it

"HOW DOES WE MAKE A TRILLIONDY DOLLERS RIGHT NAOW"
 
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