Well that settles that then.

What gave it away?

Dial it back aboot 20 percent there, Squirrelly Dan!

😱

Y’all hear the scary music yet?

Is It, though??

I said a good hypothesis. Not organic, fair-trade, artisanal AI spew.

true?

Hi-oooooooo!

Yes, thank $deity.

Unless they unionize

Ah that’s a shame.

Fine by me. I enjoy a good hypothesis. And I enjoy getting academics all riled up over theory.

Lay on, MacDuff!

I see what you did there. Excellent.

*your*

And how long have you watched Microsoft do what they do? Is it more than five years? 10? 20? 30? Really?

You can genuflect to the Ballmers all you want but their less-sucky products are still the best garbage one of the most profitable businesses in the history of earth can provide.

I’m not talking about UX, or code that doesn’t crash. I’m talking about that and the purpose of it. Good software serves the purpose of the user. Micro$oft software serves Micro$oft primarily - and often exclusively. Then there’s the monopolistic practice they have of buying innovation and crushing it beneath their heel.

Whatever “ignorance” of their products I have has been very deliberately cultivated. Glad you like VS, you’ll benefit Microsoft through it in at least one, or many, ways.

And none of what they do is different from how they’ve always been. Their self-serving greed was on full display from the day Bill Gates started demanding payment for his software that others had been freely sharing with him. Feel free to remain in thrall to them.

Words is funny sometimes.

I just want the videos no creator makes money on. I expect thats about 50% at least. Let’s start there. Put them in the Library of Congress and YouTube will be free to enshittify themselves into oblivion without complaint.

They’re a monopoly that relies on users to produce content. You see, in a functional capitalist system, when one supplier deliberately hinders competition through unfair trade practices, they are made to change their methods in order to foster competition.

When that system is corrupted and fails to act in a timely manner, all bets are off.

You know where else you can go to find the billions of videos users have uploaded? No. How did it get that way? Just, luck? No.

Yes, we want regulations on ads in YouTube, and it’s an ignorant and arrogant position to call that “entitled”.

Doesn’t that design and operation get created by the economic or governmental system it’s under?

Yes in a research lab. Here we’re talking about Microsoft.

Have you ever used something they made? Did it meet your standard of being “good work”? No. It’s a greedy, soulless cash grab disguised as software that infects the entire organization and disables common sense.

M$ actually running a nuclear plant is a guaranteed disaster. Blue Screen of Death.