Not a lawyer, but the only thing I can think of is if you incorporated and then banned anything like that in the area - but that’s a massive amount of lift I’m pretty sure

That guy is the woooorst

Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading

It did?

we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs.

So other things no one asked for?

It’s astounding how stupid that decision was. Fakespot, quite literally a device to help deter people from buying products, was gobbled up by way too much money by Mozilla - who - apparently wanted it to make profit? How?! Why?! Why did they even buy it?

I think it was just executive idiocy. They searched for extensions with the term privacy in them, bought it, and thought it would make their product worth more. I’m getting really tired of companies just sunsetting products the instant they don’t make money.

We really need an open version of fakespot.

God damnit so they bought Fakespot, an extension that actually did good, hiding fake botted reviews and reanalyzing them - and now they’re killing it. It was literally an extension to help prevent unnecessary buying. Why the hell did they even buy it?

We acquired Fakespot in 2023 to help people navigate unreliable product reviews using AI and privacy-first tech. While the idea resonated, it didn’t fit a model we could sustain.

Then why did you buy it you idiots?!

My primary worry too there. While being under a giant publisher isn’t a good thing, we did get games like Satisfactory and DRG. Messing with the formula at all right now is risky

What? They’re on their own now, not owned by embracer. We have no idea if this will be good or bad from them. There are pros and cons right now, but I thought most people would be happy they’re out from under Embracer

I decided when the show was on that I’d love to buy and read the books, when they’re finished. We’re over a decade past that and still haven’t bothered to even crack open the first. Doubt I ever will

Yup, Embracer owns a lot actually, so I’m leaning it’s good CSS will be it’s own

Ah thank you, even the article didn’t say that clearly. That’s better, I’d be sad if it was not Coffeestain anymore, but still a bit nervous

Could mean a few things. Embracer has never really been the good guy of video game publishers, so maybe it frees Coffee Stain up to do more interesting projects that maybe Embracer would have said no to. Maybe they don’t have a lot of hope for Coffee Stain and want to separate it. I think it’s too early to know for sure

Yup I feel that hard. Like they would actually care for the children at all, they want grandma/grandpa duty, to come over, have fun grandkid time and then leave as soon as the kids get fussy, or poop, or anything they don’t like. For my mom, she has friends that she’s jealous of and now wants grandkids just so she can show her friends. All horrible reasons.

And yeah, my dad was similar, to the point where he thought he was hurting me by taking me out of his will. Literally said “You’re out of the will!”. The guy was a low level government worker, he has an okay pension but his salary was less than 50k for the vast majority of his life. Owns no property or anything. I think I’ll live not being in it lol

I think a good chunk of them are just confused by going to join-lemmy and not be given a sign up in their face. Sure, we know that about 5 seconds of reading comprehension skill would get them where they want to go, but the vast majority of users don’t have that. Look how many people will walk up to a cash register/till with a sign on it that says “credit card only” and then be confused that they don’t take cash. Most people don’t read anymore.

For me, it wasn’t trauma in the standard sense, but my mother was horrible with money. Like she took out against her retirement, spent it all, never saved a dime in her life. We grew up in poverty because of it. The kicker is that while we were tight for money, she was honestly just really bad with it. We could have done fine, she had a decent paying corporate job for most of my childhood, but she’s just buy things that nobody needs. “I found these random things at a garage sale, only $200!” “But we don’t need those at all, what are we going to do with them?” “I don’t know they just looked great!” She emptied her retirement to do a home improvement project that was 100% cosmetic. She constantly borrowed money from family, and she had my siblings and I call family to ask them to borrow money.

So, I’m doing fairly well now, and it’s looking like I’ll have to carry her financial burden going forward. We’re talking probably thousands a month for her.

None of that stopped her from starting to casually drop that she wants grandkids. None of this clicks for her. I think the (US) national average cost for a kid just passed 800 thousand. For each kid. I’m sure it goes down a bit, handmedowns and what not, but that’s also the average cost.

Ffs, she knows I’ll need to already spend thousands a month just on her, and then has the audacity to be upset that I don’t want kids? It’s just. A lot. It’s annoying and it’s a lot.

Idk, I’ve heard things about HooliChat… Didn’t their stream go down in the middle of a big title fight?

Maybe, but I believe in Occam’s razer. The simplest solution is probably correct.

The average user is incredibly lazy. Insanely lazy. Reddit has taught them that they should be just spoonfed content constantly with no assistance. People aren’t used to going out to find communities anymore. To them even these basic concepts are then “frustrating” and “complex”. It’s unfortunate, but that’s really how lazy they are.

They can’t go to the search bar, type in television, and hit subscribe, it’s literally too much for them.

I was going to say, wait another reboot?

Little Randy, Lucy and Bo-bandy’s kid. What happened to little random? They covered the story by saying they put the little maf up for adoption, but other than that the little cheeseburger driving kid was never spoken of again.

I know a lot of younger folks will be angry at this, but I personally think this is a good thing. Cell phones were taking off when I was just getting through high school and the difference was palpable socially. Immediately conversations stopped happening in person, people started cyber bullying, there was less actual in person communication.

School is the only time in your life you will have friends in close proximity. I desperately miss the ability to go find my friends in the same building, to get off school and go hang out afterwards. Having friends as an adult is just hard, life gets busy, everyone moves away, you don’t have that daily thing that gets you together with them. You have work, but as soon as work is over the last thing you want to do is hang out with friends.

So yeah, I’m all for it. Tiktok, social media, messaging will all be there for you after school is over for the day, but while you’re there you’re experiencing something you never will get to again. Maybe I don’t like the pouches, but I’m all for actualizing where you are

So they have rounds of layoffs, staff feel less secure in their role, and they’re surprised that knowledgeable and easily employable experts are leaving for more stable roles?