so the thing about my family is that we have two ancestors on my dad’s side who were buried in france, where I currently live. one died in the spanish civil war, and one died prior doing…we don’t know what. but he somehow managed to get buried in père lachaise.
so anyhow, my gran sends me a message like “pls put flowers on ur uncle samuel’s grave because he’s gone over a century with none and it will make the ghost mad if he hasn’t already” because my family spends time in europe but never long enough to go all the way to père lachaise and give ya boy samuel jr. his death rites. so im like “ok gran I can do that” bc im a good grandson and you do not fuck with gran she doesn’t DESERVE THAT
i figure out which plot he’s on and ask someone specifically where you can find uncle samuel jr. and they tell me where and so I arrive at the junction and.
HE GONE.
WHERE DID YOU GO UNCLE SAMUEL.
*celine dion’s smash hit “my heart will go on” playing in the distance*
in other words either someone stole my entire great great uncle samuel or he has risen again, ready to party in paris for all of eternity.
You’re pretty chill about a corpse disappearing.
My guy, my dude, he’s been dead since 1851. He could be anywhere. He does what he wants.
You know, it’s almost like that was the fucking problem in the first place you stupid bastards
the absolute need for every online video platform to become just like cable tv despite the fact their success comes from not being like cable tv is just overwhelming
Netflix: Alright guys, we have a fantastic model going! Piracy is down, subscriptions are up, everyone’s making money with these contracts for your show’s streaming rights, and viewers are getting a ton of great content they enjoy. Everybody wins!
Morons: But what if we had our own streaming service just for our content?
Netflix: …I mean in-theory that would work at first, but if everyone’s content was suddenly 100% exclusive and you have to get a dozen subscriptions to a dozen proprietary streaming services just to watch three shows, that defeats a lot of the val–
Morons: And we could charge more than Netflix and Hulu too! We could make even more money!
Netflix: Well at a certain point you’re going to start charging more than people are willing to pay and you’ll start losing more money than you’ll gain. We’ve been doing this since 1997 so we have a pretty good idea of–
Morons: *create streaming sites for every single fucking studio that all charge more money than their content is worth, saturating the market with too many options, almost all of which have too little content to justify their price*
Consumers: Yeah fuck this
Morons: I knew streaming was a dead-end. It never could’ve worked
Netflix: But we were making money! It was working before you fuckers killed the goose laying golden eggs!
Morons: Yeah, but when we wanted more money, it stopped working, and we’re too good at business to make bad decisions, so clearly it was streaming itself that wasn’t working. It’s not our fault the goose couldn’t keep laying eggs after we ate it!
Netflix: What the fuck is wrong with you people
Everything is wrong with people
The free market?? Sabotaging itself??? More likely than you’d think
This is kind of the problem with video games too to an extent. I used to pirate games but once I got Steam I completely stopped because I had access to most of the stuff I wanted at a reasonable price (thank you discounts!). But now with Ubisoft and EA and whoever-else-wants starting their own services and diluting the market… it’s just tiresome. I’d love to play the entire Mass Effect series but I seriously don’t have the energy to juggle my attention between Steam and Origin and to deal with all those bullshit DLCs and let’s not forget that Origin has some shady things about it going on and… I just gave up. I waved Mass Effect goodbye and don’t even try to play it.
Found this reddit post. This kinda makes me feel better. And it’s something I think about sometimes because I always feel like regardless of how hard I work on something I don’t get anywhere.
Psychology is amazing folks and more of it needs to be common knowledge
YOUR BRAIN IS AN ORGAN AND DEPRESSION IS A REAL PHYSICAL THING THAT HAPPENS TO IT. THIS IS REALLY SUPER IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER.
Yeah your brain literally isn’t making the corrections and selections it’s meant to when you’re depressed – dean Burnett has a very accessible & plain English section on that in “the idiot brain” (is the last chapter)
I find this really helpful (which is a bit odd, because generally I’m not one for the totally chemical approach, given meds not helping me much) I wish my diagnosis person had told me about this when I was freaking out about my loss of ability to learn/pick up new things. It had not occurred to me that it could be part of the depression package.
Wells Fargo has asked a court to block a shareholder lawsuit that seeks
to punish the company for lying when it promised to promptly and
completely disclose any new scandals; Wells Fargo claims that the
promise was obvious “puffery,” a legal concept the FTC has allowed to
develop in which companies can be excused for making false claims if it
should be obvious that they are lying (as when a company promises that
they make “the best-tasting juice in America).
The lawsuit stems from Wells Fargo’s crooked car-loan program
that used deceptive tactics to defraud 800,000 customers, ultimately
stealing 25,000 of their cars through fraudulent repossessions.
The shareholders argue that when Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan misled
investors in 2016, when he said that he was “not aware” of lurking sales
scandals (this was four years after the company’s internal
investigations revealed the car ripoffs and a year before they were made
public after a leak to the New York Times).
The company argue that Sloan was making “generic statements…on which
no reasonable investor could rely” and thus the shareholders should not
be able to sue for the losses they suffered when the scandal became
public.
In other words, as the LA Times’s Michael Hiltzik puts it, “We can’t be sued because no one believed us anyway.”
Hacking Team (previously)
was an Italian company that developed cyberweapons that it sold to
oppressive government around the world, to be used against their own
citizens to monitor and suppress political oppositions; in 2015, a
hacker calling themselves “Phineas Fisher” hacked and dumped hundreds of gigabytes’ worth of internal Hacking Team data, effectively killing the company.
Three years later, the Italian prosecutors who have been chasing Phineas
Fisher have given up on unmasking them. On Motherboard, Lorenzo
Franceschi-Bicchierai combines the contents of sealed court documents
with interview with “Fisher” to reveal the tradecraft that kept Fisher
safe from legal retaliation; the stupid mistakes that left Hacking Team
vulnerable; and the sleazy tactics the company’s CEO used to torment his
former employees in the name of tracking down Fisher.
Fisher’s ability to evade unmasking is largely attributable to their
extreme caution and diligence: using tools like Tor to remain anonymous,
and using stolen, hacked Bitcoin to buy the services and tools that
Fisher used to penetrate Hacking Team’s defenses.
The attack was only possible because David Vincenzetti, Hacking Team’s
founder and CEO, refused to upgrade his VPN software, forcing the IT
workers at Hacking Team to keep older, legacy services running. One of
the systems administrators who might have caught Fisher during their
raids on Hacking Team’s data was reportedly distracted by a weeks-long
World of Warcraft binge, allowing Fisher to operate with impunity.
Meanwhile, the court documents reveal that Vincenzetti has pursued
vendettas against former employees whom he falsely believed to be
implicated in the hack, going so far as to frame them with false
evidence. However, Vincenzetti was ultimately unsuccessful in his
attempts to frame these workers.
