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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

His secret bunker is on Maui.

Don't tell everyone.

The locals won't help you find it of you ask them.

They definitely don't hate him as much as all of us, or more.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

And Larry Ellison doesn't conspicuously have a whole island in Hawaii that's thus easy to find and widely known. Except his locals seemed a little more wary to speak ill of him.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

Can we PLEASE make these people go away.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 6 days ago

They want to make every one of us penniless, and control ALL the money. If they can't get it from us from taxes, fines, and over-priced consumer goods, they'll train us to just throw it away by gambling.

And they'll just scoop it all up. Nothing left for children to inherit, nothing saved for retirement, nothing saved to start a business, but a second home, send kids to college, etc.

But it's worse than that. You got out of college with massive student loans that will take a lifetime to pay off. Now you have a massive gambling debt that just keeps growing, because your addicted as sure as if it were heroin. Now you're gambling, not to "make it interesting," but because you're trying to win the money to get yourself out of your hole. You don't worry about losing any more, because your already so deep it doesn't matter. What matters is that you could win at any time, and start digging your way out.

Or maybe you avoided the student loan trap somehow, but now they convince you that gambling in fun, get you into debt, and trap you that way.

Anyone working for meta is a piece of shit.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Zuck fucks up every business model he tries to the point of ending up saying: "I'll just do an online Casino"

Failing at being a tech billionaire is pretty embarrassing.

Worst businessman ever.

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Zuck had one good idea and it was literally stolen.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He had one good idea to connect college student with one another, and suddenly he thinks ALL of his ideas are good. Fuck this douchebag.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 6 points 6 days ago

facebook was originally meant for rating college chicks. Everything else was an accident.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So we know that he is actively harming young people on Instagram. We know that he was showing ads for CASM content in India and is profitering from that. He know wants to hook young people on gambling. Maybe he should get a restraining order preventing him from interacting with children at all.

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago

We know Facebook is knowingly ignoring human trafficking on Facebook....

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Another sign that billionaires and Zuckerberg especially, have completely become out of touch with the rest of humanity.

We are merely consumers to them.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 5 points 6 days ago

Always were. They simply have to come up with more ways to squeeze the rest out of their userbase to justify investments.

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 15 points 6 days ago

Meta is desperate to corner the market on something, anything.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 16 points 6 days ago

Alternate headline: Lord of a crumbling, gutted empire struggles to maintain relevancy

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Have you seen any of the games that are available on Android and iOS devices for kids to play? They have been priming children for gambling for many many years. The sounds and visuals they use in the way they introduce prizes and features as rewards for playing mini games and various "mystery box" items they can get. They are virtually identical to any and all gambling apps as well as casino slot machines.

[–] NM_Gringo@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Tax that dweed fuck so much he's afraid to show his face in public.

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[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

I hate this guy

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I wonder how effectively those glasses would protect his face from a baseball bat swung at full force. Probably not very well, but I'd pay good money to see it tested on him all the same.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

I actually heard they are completely bullet-proof. Maybe musk could swing by with a metal ball and test that for us

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

android bodies likely wont feel any pain. his chassis has been reinforced through BJJ training.

[–] HackThePlanet@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago

For those who may have forgotten, the little prince of Meta more or less started with Facemash, a site that displayed two photos side by side and asked users to vote for which person was "more attractive," using a mechanism similar to "Hot or Not."

All "funny" if it weren't for:

  • Privacy: using photographs of people without consent would often violate regulations and, in many countries, personal data protection laws.
  • Consent: the people depicted had not chosen to participate.
  • Objectification: asking people to rank solely based on their physical appearance can be seen as a form of objectification and can contribute to a disrespectful environment.
  • Possible psychological effects: this type of public comparison can affect self-esteem and exclude or humiliate some people.

Not to mention what happened with Cambridge Analytica.

What do people expect from a mind like that?

[–] Gregers@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not that I ever wanted the perv glasses, but seeing this creepy ugly toad fucker wearing those makes me never want a frame remotely similar to them

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 6 days ago

Well, since he bought Instagram, he did turn it from a social hub to a slot machine whose payout is fragments of connection to people you care about, carefully metered to be just enough to keep you coming back without leaving ad money on the table.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, those goggles look perfectly normal. Nobody will think you look like a super-creep weirdo at all.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 3 points 6 days ago

I saw some of them in a store just today and holy shit they look dumb as hell. I used to have bose frames and honestly i loved them so much, they were great but flimsy unfortunately. They lookes kinda odd because the handle things were pretty wide but i didn't really care. Now a days i wouldn't probably wear tgem because they reaemble these dumb as fuck creep glasses

[–] catdog@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Mark Zuckerberg shizzle sounds eaga to get young peeps hooked on online gamblin

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

He looks like such a nerd in those stupid glasses.

And not even in a good way.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

French style revolution is the only solution

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Meta also hopes to implement parts of Arena into Facebook and its messaging app, Messenger, attaching betting options to group chats, news feeds, and videos.

“We believe that prediction markets are one of the more interesting new content types,” Ime Archibong, a senior Meta official leading Arena’s development, reportedly said in an internal company post last month. “The social conversation is the payoff as people aim to show off how good they are at predicting things to their friends.”

The strategy appears to be: betting as content, gamifying gambling to become social. It’s a framing that could open the door to harmful situations, especially for the young people he’s going after. According to the National Council on Problem Gambling, 2.5 million US adults, or about 1 percent of Americans, meet the diagnostic mental health criteria of severe gambling addiction. An Epic Research study published on Friday analyzing electronic health records found that gambling disorder diagnoses have risen more than 60 percent since 2018 in states that have legalized sports betting. The largest increase came from young people, aged 18 to 29, whose rate more than doubled.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

preying on the degenerate, by making degenerate app.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Of course he is; he saw how well it worked for Valve.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (8 children)

did valve do something recently that was bad?

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[–] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I suppose the wealthy probably should have all of the money.

Although wouldn't that make it easier to just switch to a different currency? If I can't get dollars cause the wealthy have all of it, dollars are essentially worthless to me.

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