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buffaloseven, 10 months ago

You can practically hear the money he spent burning in a pit out back.

atlhart, 10 months ago

Just a few years ago…even a year ago…I would have thought that was it, the internet has agglomerated around these few sites: Twitter, Facebook, Reddit.

And then do to mismanagement, the owners of these sites have created an opening for competition.

I’d never heard of Mastodon until Elon bought Twitter. I’d never heard I’d Lemmy of kbin until Spez decided to shut down the 3PAs.

These “innovators” are falling into the same traps of as the ghosts of the past. Napster existed because the record industry tries to stop the future, and stop the consumers from getting what they wanted.

It’s a new day for the internet.

GunnarRunnar, 10 months ago

Apparently Twitter is DDoSing itself.

eu8, 10 months ago

That doesn't explain it IMO. That data is already freely available and LLMs don't need the latest data. So data scraping for AI makes up a miniscule amount of API usage.

I think it has more to do with inflation. Investors aren't putting their money into risky tech companies as much, and so these companies (twitter, reddit, etc) have to prove they can be profitable for once, and they probably are going to fail to do this. It does mean we can't have nice things for free anymore like API access.

BurnTheRight, 10 months ago

Ooh! Count me in!

Their website leaves a lot of unanswered questions for potential customers, though. For example, am I guaranteed a quick, painless death or will I suffer? How much warning is there before the collapse? During the descent, how long will it take for the interior to smell like "I'm about to die" farts?

ArugulaZ, 10 months ago

"You'll never find a more expensive way to commit suicide!"

Fadore, 10 months ago

Ever since the incident, their marketing team has been under a lot of pressure...

MarkC568, 10 months ago

You don’t even need a submersible craft to visit the site.

As long as you only want to go once!

MisterMoo, 10 months ago

At crush depth, “limited space available” takes on a new meaning.

DumBirb, 10 months ago

I want to sub for more of these jokes

ivanafterall, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I just don't see the humor in people losing loved ones. If it were me going through it, honestly, I think my whole life would just implode.

ivanafterall, 10 months ago

It's all a matter of perspective. When you tear down a wall in a house, you don't lose space. They gained an entire ocean worth of space, if you're a glass half-full kind of person. And to their credit, they weren't content with just half-full.

Whirlgirl9, 10 months ago

C'mon @ivanafterall. You can't go so hard on users. They're just getting their feet wet in the Fediverse and your tone could make them feel they can't have a submersible experience into the new culture. Then again, your comment won't be lost in a vast ocean of noise.

Sinnerman, 10 months ago

Washington Post had an article about this with a lot more facts, a couple days ago:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/06/27/ultra-processed-foods-predigested-health-risks/
(temporarily free article on a mostly-paywalled site.)

24Vindustrialdildo, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I call it Chermo or Chermobyl to give it its full name. This “chermy” reeks of either their marketing team or Victorian immigrants.

Zagorath, 11 months ago

It’s a multifaceted problem.

Scooters are definitely much more dangerous than bikes. They’re much harder to control and more likely to tip over. And that’s a problem.

And it seems highly likely that this guy was under the influence. Which is obviously a bad personal decision.

But also, there’s a severe problem with infrastructure. When you have actual good-quality infrastructure for bikes and scooters to use, crashes like this become much less likely. Yes, most of the conversation around bike infrastructure is about protecting them from cars, but quite a lot of what we’re building at the moment does a little to protect against cars while actually potentially increasing the risk of single-vehicle crashes or crashes between two active transport users. Still a worthwhile trade-off, but even better would be to build high quality, rather than mediocre, infrastructure.

In this case, the article says the guy “clipped a gutter”. When you have good bike path, there won’t be any gutters. At least not ones that you’re ever riding very close to. But then in this case it’s even worse. There wasn’t even a mediocre bike path. He was riding, presumably, on the footpath, with all of its bumps and cracks and lips. These things are uncomfortable and potentially risky on a bicycle, but are major hazards on the small wheels of a scooter.

This rider undoubtedly made some bad personal decisions leading up to the crash. But if our Council was doing its job properly and ensuring that there were high quality, reasonably direct, separated paths for people using active transport to get to any destination that they could desire, these mistakes would not have lead to his death.