Edit: Replaced PayPal with Starlink

  • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 小时前

    Difficult list to look at for a few reasons. Some of these ventures plowed the way forward in their respective field.

    Even after the ‘innovation plateau’ of a few of these ventures, at least the engineers and other experts that actually did the innovating would be able to go work for the competition. At least in theory.

    It must be stressful to be in a position doing work you are skilled at - and might even enjoy - while your company’s leadership is publicly committed to causes that go against your belief systems.

    Though I suppose that’s not a problem unique to organisations beneath Musk.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    9·
    4 小时前

    I don’t know why it’s so hard to get people to care about things. It’s not like twitter is some vital service. But people are just like, “meh, it’s funny.” What tepid slop do these people have where their soul should be?

    • BanMe@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 小时前

      I went to a gay camp earlier this year and a couple of the RVs had starlinks. They don’t care and they don’t think their dollars matter.

      In fact I had a whole chat with my boss today about Chick Filet, he asked if I was boycotting (and said his gay daughter is too). He then launched into this spiel about how you’re always supporting evil somehow so it doesn’t matter.

      I’m like, yeah but not one penny of my money goes to them, and that’s all I can care about.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
        5·
        3 小时前

        When this comes up, which isn’t that often, I typically ask them where the line is. Like, presumably there’s something a company could do that’s so evil that they wouldn’t support it. What is it, for them? Crushing babies live on TV? That’s probably too far, right? So then we can sort of do a binary search between that line and where we are, and try to find what is too much for them. I suspect for many people it’s “am I personally, immediately, harmed by this, in a way I can’t rationalize?”

      • tyler@programming.dev
        9·
        5 小时前

        Thiel was kicked out of sold PayPal. Where are yall getting this PayPal connection with nazis? Sheesh.

        Edit: sorry I had that backwards. Musk was kicked out, thiel sold. Back in 2002. Literally 23 years ago.

      • Psythik@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 小时前

        Oh so this is a Photoshop? For a moment I thought Teslas were hacked and showing these messages to everyone. That would have been neat.

        • CubitOom@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          62·
          4 小时前

          This is Lemmy. This content was GIMPed. I wouldn’t even pirate Adobe products.

          I tried to match a picture of a Tesla error as much as possible however.

            • CubitOom@infosec.pubOPEnglish
              55·
              4 小时前

              Its not a verb I use. Try a better lexicon.

              Edit: Lesson 9 of On Tyranny: Be kind to our language.

              Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
    12·
    5 小时前

    Don’t give money to Nazis no matter what.

    But it does help that each and everyone of those brand objectively suck in their respective field.

  • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    8 小时前

    Musk hasn’t been involved with PayPal for over 20 years. He lost his job as ceo over 20 years ago. The last dealing he had with them was having to pay them like almost $200 mill or something to have the x domain again