This is one effect of a general lack of real consequences for corporations and those that run them.

The company has already determined their likely fine after being caught doing something egregious. The profit from being early to market is significant, and so long as it is considerably higher than the likely fine, they go for it. The expected real earnings are the difference between the profit and the fine. It’s all made worse since so often the fine is absolutely nothing compared to the profit, since the numbers these companies are dealing with are so damn big.

This is why you won’t see real change until we stop slapping corporations with fines and start slapping executives with jail time. That is literally the only way to break the cycle.

And the really shocking thing is how easy that was to normalize.

Talk about random thing at dinner, phone in pocket.

Post dinner, hit up Insta and boom, ad for random thing… and at that point, some people go “heh” and keep scrolling. Some likely think it’s “the algorithm” being magical and just using other context cues to guess that they would have mentioned it at dinner. Many have realized that, in fact, the devices you pay for and subscribe to are actively spying on you. Constantly.

And yet, the number of people who have opted out of using these devices and services is relatively minimum. There is a good reason for that: many of these services are so ubiquitous, they look and feel like utilities. And in some cases, they effectively are, as it can be impossible to use another service without a smartphone.

Hell, I can’t even pay my damn rent without using some stupid app.

Something tells me Vance is more qualified for sofa covering than health coverage

How stupid has the populace become that they can’t see this high school bullshit.

Sounds like they want a round of layoffs but don’t want to pay severance.

The primary argument against the death penalty are the sheer number of people who were executed in spite of later being found innocent.

Just because it doesn’t apply in this particular case doesn’t mean anything needs to change.

The legal system does not have 100% accuracy.

On a day when JD Vance effectively admitted to another fabrication, as well.

This not only screams BS but makes me question other similar events which seemed to have perfect timing and a nice photo op.

But then how would I get my breakfast beer? Only at an airport do you get the plausibility of being accustomed to a different time zone.

In all seriousness though, this is the classic “blame the person or the tool” argument.

I’ve seen this one. This is the one where a bunch of Republicans are like “I’m a never Trumper” and then a month later they’re all on the floor kissing his feet.

Now for extra fun: consider how different the attacks would be if Kamala Harris were a male candidate, with all other factors as close as possible (age, race, background, etc.)

You wouldn’t be hearing about how he “slept his way” to the top. You wouldn’t be hearing about how his “handlers” had to feed him information because he isn’t capable of debating on his own without prompting. You’d still be hearing a bunch of bullshit, to be sure, but it would be different bullshit.

The next time someone on the right tries to deflect or muddy the water with “bUt caN You eVeN giVe a sPecIfic eXampLe AboUt hOw tHe RePubLican party / MAGA / Trump Is seXiSt?”, all you must do is point to the kinds of lies they naturally fell into about Kamala Harris.

What those higher up in the party think of women, and what the rest have chosen to align themselves to, is on full display.

In conclusion, the results support the hypothesis that fecal knives are usually shitty knives

– the paper, probably

Good thing he gutted Twitter’s content moderation teams in the name of “free speech”, eh?

If I had a dollar for every time a billionaire loses more money than I could ever dream of because their hubris got in the way or they misunderstood a concept or were just plain dumb – well, I guess I’d be a billionaire too.

Who appoints them?

Regulators are politicians. That’s literally the point of the comment.

Did you skip over the last part of the comment?

How in the hell have the worst among us consistently been put into positions of power? These folks are an embarrassment to the country.

This is disturbingly accurate.

Oh, I totally agree. My comment was intended more to get away from the idea that these people are simply unintelligent, which I don’t think is the case.

100% they have a responsibility to think critically. Conditioning may make that difficult, but a lack of effort would be an entirely different thing.

Regulators! Mount up.

…no, really. Do your jobs and regulate.

We need to get rid of politicians who are bought and paid for by corporations.

Trump’s achilles’ heel is pride and ego. He surrounds himself with yes-people to constantly stroke that ego.

But he isnt dumb. He must know (maybe deep down) that she got under his skin and as a result she embarrassed him on national TV.

He cannot risk any more detriment to the ego.