Marketers shouldn’t have gotten involved until they knew they had a solid product. Without the hype they generated, there wouldn’t have been the reputation hit. And without the heavy volume produced to try to meet a demand inflated by hype, they could have fixed at least some of the issues.
Though it sounds like the root of the problem was that no one who had power over business or engineering decisions had any passion for making a great drone.
I’m curious if their current CEO has more of an engineering or business/finance/marketing background, which would put them in the same pattern numerous other once dominant in their market companies have fallen into.
And the second highest comment is “wHY arE YoU bUyINg nEW TeCH wItH aN OlD pHOnEeeee?” (Because OP’s complaint is about how they don’t have a phone capable of running the app rather than just a “why the fuck does this need an app?”)
Though there’s a non-zero chance those replies are made by someone with a vested interest. It’s annoying how both those and people who have just drunk the koolaid are pretty much impossible to tell apart.
Just hold on to your butt and cut the main power.
But then don’t forget to switch back to main power before the auxiliary power runs out of fuel or things will get really bad.
Unless it’s the movie and they cut out the whole auxiliary power and just set it up such that all power goes out and no one thought of being at the power station to get the main generator back up and running asap before cutting the park’s power.
Or just do it like reddit did, where you can delete your post content and remove your username from it, but the thread and comments remain.
Though with how the fediverse works, it’s possible to spin up a custom instance that highlights deleted content instead of deleting it, meaning the attempt to get rid of it can be what brings it more attention if anyone has decided to do it. Just like with vote identities, they aren’t anonymous and there are instances/sites that just show who voted for what.
When I switched to win 10, I actually gave them more money to get the pro version for access to the group policy editor so I could control updates and never have to deal with my PC telling me it’s time to restart on its own. Because I was stupid.
When it came time to switch to Win 11, I did the much more sensible thing and installed Fedora instead. I started with cinnamon and even though I ended up disliking it also, it was still way better than the windows experience.
That sounds like it should be controlled by a modifier key. Like click and drag just moves the current window while ctrl+drag moves the parent window as well and shift+drag moves all windows owned by that same program. Right click to cancel the whole move operation from the start of the click, then allow dynamically switching modes mid-drag.
WoW had it for intercity travel. Maybe it still does, feels weird that that game is still around lol.
I’m still undecided about their own text (deleting comments or post text disrupts the conversation but there’s valid reasons), but I don’t think the OP of a thread should have any control over the existence of that full comment thread.
Frankly, I don’t think users should have that power.
Yeah, upvotes aren’t strongly correlated with accuracy. Could be informative. Or informative but false. Or just a joke. Or a troll that voters enjoyed. Or a plain old aggressive comment against someone they don’t like. Or positioned such that an unusual number of people accidentally tap upvote. Or brigaded from another more popular sub. Or the votes were botted or bought. Or randomly upvoted to camouflage a bot always upvoting its owner’s account. Or its visibility is better than an even better comment and thus got more total votes.
That’s why I think reddit is a shit source if you want an accurate bot, but might be pretty good if you want a propaganda tool because each of those things can play a role in effective propaganda.
I wouldn’t say “never”. Eventually, some of them will get old and understand it firsthand.
Though the worst part is how perception of time is inversely proportional to enjoyment of said time.
It’s more about the nature of a purge. If you were trying to put the best people for the roles in those roles prior to a purge, then a purge is going to leave you with worse people for the jobs, or at the very least, less experienced people doing those jobs.
It might have been sexism behind the reason women dominated those roles before the purge, but it’s normal for quality to drop after a political purge.
Same thing happened with the Nazis after Hitler did some rounds of purges in the Wermacht upper echelon after that assassination attempt with the bomb that injured him and discovering the plot for a military coup in its background. The purges really didn’t help their war efforts when they were already struggling.
My guess is they use the vote counts to classify the reliability of the data. They might even have vote identities to classify the data based on audience. That actually seems pretty likely, now that I think of it. It would be an important part of making them effective propaganda tools, which I believe is one of the end goals.
Qui Gon hard in denial, giving a confused and full of mixed feelings Vader secret force lessons. Palpatine, knowing his apprentice is fragile in that area, lets it slide when he notices, not wanting to deal with a whiney Anakin again after calming him down about the Padme thing.
Which was also part of the reason he didn’t say anything about Vader’s many apprentices; partially because he hoped Vader would train his own replacement, partially because if Vader didn’t think he had to keep it secret, he’d complain Palpatine’s ear off about it like he used to do as a Jedi. It was fun while he was manipulating him towards the dark side but just annoying now that the honeymoon phase was over.
Any specific issues though? Yeah, it’s a large change and I’d be more surprised if it didn’t have issues, but are there any specific issues with the updates that have been found so far?
It was a double penetration with his brother.
Skyrim came out closer to 9/11 than to today.
Who knows, maybe he decided to repent and is just still holding the sign because dropping it would be littering.
Have you mentioned yet that anyone can do that second one by making their own fork? And that no one is required to give a fuck about how they think it should be done?