Ordered food at Sonic on their app. After I ordered, it popped up with ads for travel, various credit cards, etc. Completely crazy to me that they're triple dipping on monetization now (sell me food, sell my data and then sell me other shit while trying to sell me food.)
greenskye
joined 2 years ago
Which is honestly just the end game of a practice that's been getting worse for decades. It's partly why stuff was outsourced. The more layers between us and the atrocities, the less humanity can focus on reacting to them.
There's been a concerted effort to introduce as many possible layers as they can to divide people and break up communities in order to break humans ability to empathize (and then use that empathy to affect change).
You're making assumptions that I'm some young kid, naively thinking I can change the world with overly simplistic 'solutions'.
I've been in this career for a decent chunk of time, and, more importantly discussed these issues with others that have been here 40+ years (my company has been around for 100+ years). They feel the same.
You see it over and over again, management makes a short term cost saving decision, gets promoted or leaves to a new company and the rest of the people spend the next 3 years dealing with that decision. Things that used to be fixed in 2-3 days now takes 2-3 weeks. Projects that used to be completed in 4-6 weeks now take 4-6 months, etc.
These are things that I've noticed after 15+ years in the job and things that my 40+ year co-workers agree with and things the next two levels of my own management agree with (both 30+ years at the company). Hell, these are things executives I've been on better terms with have agreed with in the past (only to get let go after failing to implement culture changes).
My experience with executives is that they don't necessarily want yes men, but there's a range of acceptable criticism or feedback that they'll accept. As long as you're within that range, it's fine.
If you try to address fundamental problems that might require real change... well those people tend to get suppressed.
They'll happily take feedback on meeting structure or project planning or whatever. But try to do a retrospective on what the true longterm costs of their decision to go with the cheap, but unreliable solution and they'll blackball you.
I hate researching appliances. Literally every brand and model has a ton of haters (often with tragic stories of how the appliance caused thousands of dollars in damages). There's no way to research an appliance and come out with any sort of objective view point on it.
Sure there's high level takes (Samsung bad, speed queen good), but then if you dig deeper into those off the cuff statements you realize even that isn't true.
So I've generally just said fuck it and gone with whatever.
Xitter is pronounced 'shitter' I'm pretty sure
Honestly disagree. I think it's important to distinguish between companies who make a product or offer a service and charge appropriately for that transaction. Commerce isn't an inherent evil.
Enshittification is inevitable when the customers are no longer the primary method to make money for the executives. That's the perverse incentive that results in actively sabotaging your own business for greater short term profits because you've created a system that doesn't punish you for doing so (typically by running every 'real' competitor into the ground first).
If they are more concerned about stock price, or advertisers or selling data, those are the avenues to enshittification. But selling a service to end users for profit is just normal business.
My local church puts out big signs in front telling you what to vote for. Regularly see cops attend that church. No one cares
This would be funnier without the last panel