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Yup, and this has been my core theory as to why MS has been less evil than Meta and Google. That core relationship not only makes even individuals inherently more valuable to MS than we are to Google and Meta, it ALSO means that there are more legal protections and expectations placed upon MS...

Granted some of this is driven by what's listed. Others are likely driven by normal "I've been doing this long enough and want to move on to other projects", IE MattPat I think falls more into this category given how long he's been around and successful he's been.

Somehow it doesn't surprise me that once again Microsoft is more ethical than Google. -.- No, seriously, if you look over their history, MS has done a lot less shady shit than Google. But then again, that's because MS is a fundamentally different creature than Google. MS is a software company...

Actually, in their defense, Microsoft stock that most people can buy is a dividend paying stock, or it was about ten years ago when I bought some. I don't have much, but every quarter like clockwork I've been getting dividends from that MS stock... my biggest regret was is not buying more of it...

And the crybullies won't. You need to understand something: the crybullies will always exist. There's a personality type, let's call them the "Social Enforcer" who gloms onto what they see as the most popular moral system and proceed to attempt to enforce it upon others via social shaming and...

I used to watch him when he stayed strictly on pop culture and silly movie analysis; however, when he started getting into commentary on actual current political issues I stopped. I think it was when he utterly misrepresented the case against Roe v Wade and Constitutional Criticisms of it in...

You guys have to remember that the first domino regarding Musk buying Twitter wasn't them censoring him or anything... It was Twitter banning the Babylon Bee. Elon was a longtime follower of the Bee and their silly memes and Christian-right shitposting. One can make the argument he bought...

It's not an American thing, you see it across the world where antisemites raise their heads. In part, it has to do with the fact that some of the most popular antisemitic texts are actual conspiracy theory works. For instance, one of the foundational works of modern antisemitism is "Protocols...

"Decided"... Yes... they decided... Due to a taxation and employment regime structured by the government that discouraged childbearing and turned it from an economic benefit to a economic luxury. The way our entire society has been shifted since after WW2 has been to make having children...

This is one of those times where you kinda have the right idea, but also, no, the US is almost purely Anglo in origin. Also, it wasn't Spanish and Portuguese, but Dutch and German that were the other major European influences on early America. We eventually took over a bunch of former Spanish...

I am saying this once and only once, leave the Snowden debate out of this thread and take it to an appropriate place.

You're under one wrong assumption here: that he was ever "one of them". Something is quite apparent when you look at the current US monied interests, they come in two forms, Old Money and the Tech Upstarts. The Tech Upstarts in many respects were outsiders to the old money, and if you pay...

The reasons behind Twitter's rise a mutlivaried, but "first mover advantage" isn't quite correct. You have to remember, Twitter originated pre-smartphones. It actually originally was a way for people to chat and communicate between Texting and the Internet. This is where the infamous...

Those numbers are somewhat solid, though you may want 24/7/365 support on your technicians, which does increase that team's size considerably. Likewise, given the global nature of Twitter, you advertising team might need to be a bit bigger to account for dealing with corporations across various...

Silicon Valley's importance to the Tech Industry is overblown. Despite their claims, much of the work for the core parts of technology happened outside of Silicon Valley. The core of the Internet wasn't built there, nor on technologies they developed, it grew out of the Federal computer...

. . . No, this isn't a "tech industry" thing. I work in the tech industry, no companies in my region offer amenities like this, and you'd be laughed out of the region if you thought to. My brother also worked for Facebook in New York and they didn't offer amenities like this. This is a VERY...