Consumers with RAM
November 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Consumers with RAM
I think my new position is that large corporations need to be forced to respect consumers more and small businesses need to respect them less
It’s too much to screenshot but there’s a huge kerfluffle on Threads right now where a woman is mad that a Portland otaku cafe made her unlabeled agoraphobia service dog go outside so she demanded two weeks of that employee’s pay. The owner made the whole staff do ADA training and told the woman…
November 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
I think my new position is that large corporations need to be forced to respect consumers more and small businesses need to respect them less
Billionaires rely on consumers, if consumers are burdened by debt they don’t consume, therefore billionaires should expend their wealth to pay consumers debt, medical, educational primarily, freeing consumers to consume. They would still be disgustingly wealthy, but would’ve invested in others.
November 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Billionaires rely on consumers, if consumers are burdened by debt they don’t consume, therefore billionaires should expend their wealth to pay consumers debt, medical, educational primarily, freeing consumers to consume. They would still be disgustingly wealthy, but would’ve invested in others.
yep, they literally had to reassure consumers that there *were* gatekeepers
one, absolutely
two, thinking about how the seal was part of Nintendo's broad strategy to get the NES to sell in a skeptical, post-crash market in the 80s, which was partially caused by a content glut
two, thinking about how the seal was part of Nintendo's broad strategy to get the NES to sell in a skeptical, post-crash market in the 80s, which was partially caused by a content glut
People may joke but this might be where this all ends up: on the industry recreating old forms of gatekeeping so that social proof and webs of trust can be used to stem the tide of low-effort slop, effectively undoing what digital distribution did in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
November 1, 2026 at 1:51 PM
yep, they literally had to reassure consumers that there *were* gatekeepers
Damage to equipment has disrupted electricity transmission to consumers, and emergency power cuts are in effect.
November 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Damage to equipment has disrupted electricity transmission to consumers, and emergency power cuts are in effect.
Nvidia intentionally crippled their $1,000 graphics cards so average consumers couldn’t use its full computing power. Why? Because they sell the exact same chip to big tech companies for $7,000+.
November 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Nvidia intentionally crippled their $1,000 graphics cards so average consumers couldn’t use its full computing power. Why? Because they sell the exact same chip to big tech companies for $7,000+.
Great retort to the natural endpoint of treating voters like consumers not citizens, Polanski's "Tax Wealth, Not Work"
October 31, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Great retort to the natural endpoint of treating voters like consumers not citizens, Polanski's "Tax Wealth, Not Work"
But for avid consumers of Fox News, it’s important for him to get his message out.
November 2, 2026 at 10:09 PM
But for avid consumers of Fox News, it’s important for him to get his message out.
what the preference of consumers when you can canibalize yourself to please god (shareholders)
November 2, 2026 at 3:52 PM
what the preference of consumers when you can canibalize yourself to please god (shareholders)
Over 350,000 consumers left without power after Russian attacks on Dnipro and nearby settlements
Over 350,000 consumers left without power after Russian attacks on Dnipro and nearby settlements
More than 350,000 electricity consumers in Dnipro and nearby settlements have lost power following Russian attacks.
www.pravda.com.ua
October 30, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Over 350,000 consumers left without power after Russian attacks on Dnipro and nearby settlements
Some consumers remain without electricity in the Zhytomyr, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Cherkasy and Kharkiv regions.
The most difficult power supply situation is in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv regions.
The most difficult power supply situation is in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv regions.
November 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Some consumers remain without electricity in the Zhytomyr, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Cherkasy and Kharkiv regions.
The most difficult power supply situation is in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv regions.
The most difficult power supply situation is in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv regions.
Also need national legislation to allow direct car sales from manufacturers to consumers. No more middlemen dealers who add costs to consumers and are a backbone of Republican donations.
November 1, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Also need national legislation to allow direct car sales from manufacturers to consumers. No more middlemen dealers who add costs to consumers and are a backbone of Republican donations.
Elon Musk wrote a lot of words when "I fear a change in leadership in DC will (1) make it harder for me to get *another* $38,000,000,000 in corporate welfare from the government; and (2) that more regulations will be created to protect consumers from my dangerous products" would suffice.
October 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Elon Musk wrote a lot of words when "I fear a change in leadership in DC will (1) make it harder for me to get *another* $38,000,000,000 in corporate welfare from the government; and (2) that more regulations will be created to protect consumers from my dangerous products" would suffice.
Put another way, I’d rather someone read DCC than something Malcolm Gladwell shat out for the airport newsstand consumers
November 2, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Put another way, I’d rather someone read DCC than something Malcolm Gladwell shat out for the airport newsstand consumers
I dislike ‘conservatives are fundamentally incapable of creating good art’ because it’s obviously untrue but the trumpist new right is def incapable of making good art because their political identity is primarily forumlated around being consumers, and consumers, definitionally, cannot make art
The conservative movement is so culturally desolate that it hasn't produced a great thinker in almost a century, and has produced no great artists or writers for an even longer period. There's simply no need to engage with their thought, because it's all base ressentiment
A fun thing about the far-right trying to dig up cultural artefacts almost weekly over the past few months (it's the SW prequels now) is that they're desperately trying to find anything whatsoever that might resonate more broadly--because the movement is completely dead with no momentum.
November 1, 2026 at 1:15 AM
I dislike ‘conservatives are fundamentally incapable of creating good art’ because it’s obviously untrue but the trumpist new right is def incapable of making good art because their political identity is primarily forumlated around being consumers, and consumers, definitionally, cannot make art
- BABY! consumers used to be ruthless. and the sales were actually good.
I miss when Black Friday was kinda dangerous.
Kosine & Marcos Palacios: Alright Hands Up
ALT: Kosine & Marcos Palacios: Alright Hands Up
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November 1, 2026 at 6:41 PM
- BABY! consumers used to be ruthless. and the sales were actually good.
Whoever figures out that many consumers will pay a premium to buy un-networked stuff is going to make a lot of money.
Just a reminder that most objects do not in fact need to be networked to the internet
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Shop freezers in seven European countries hit by cyber-attack
The temperature of freezers in several shops across Europe reportedly rose to as high as 50C.
www.bbc.com
November 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Whoever figures out that many consumers will pay a premium to buy un-networked stuff is going to make a lot of money.
"If you cannot show value to consumers, don't even try:" Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida feels next-generation hardware is a fanciful notion right now
He suggests any device launching at more than $1,000 would essentially be dead on arrival.
He suggests any device launching at more than $1,000 would essentially be dead on arrival.
"If you cannot show value to consumers, don't even try:" Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida feels next-generation hardware is fanciful right now
He suggests any device launching at more than $1,000 would essentially be dead on arrival.
www.verticalslice.news
November 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
"If you cannot show value to consumers, don't even try:" Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida feels next-generation hardware is a fanciful notion right now
He suggests any device launching at more than $1,000 would essentially be dead on arrival.
He suggests any device launching at more than $1,000 would essentially be dead on arrival.
Enshittification comes for everything. What a miserable time for consumers. Everything is against us.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart for $17 billion in a big consolidation of the grocery delivery business.
October 29, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Enshittification comes for everything. What a miserable time for consumers. Everything is against us.
We all know that bidet would be cheaper, more effective, and more efficient, but the paper industry needs consumers
November 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
We all know that bidet would be cheaper, more effective, and more efficient, but the paper industry needs consumers
The front line of defense against this?
Ethical breeders doing education.
Informed consumers.
Frenchies crack me up. I cannot in good faith consider having one beyond a rescue situation knowing about the C Section thing.
Ethical breeders doing education.
Informed consumers.
Frenchies crack me up. I cannot in good faith consider having one beyond a rescue situation knowing about the C Section thing.
November 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM
The front line of defense against this?
Ethical breeders doing education.
Informed consumers.
Frenchies crack me up. I cannot in good faith consider having one beyond a rescue situation knowing about the C Section thing.
Ethical breeders doing education.
Informed consumers.
Frenchies crack me up. I cannot in good faith consider having one beyond a rescue situation knowing about the C Section thing.
"We are being forced to offer actual competition to a service that offers consumers what they want, and that's just not fair."
November 2, 2026 at 10:15 PM
"We are being forced to offer actual competition to a service that offers consumers what they want, and that's just not fair."
People tuning in to the PM programme are high information news consumers. They don’t need or want to be talked to like they’re just dabbling in politics.
November 2, 2026 at 5:29 PM
People tuning in to the PM programme are high information news consumers. They don’t need or want to be talked to like they’re just dabbling in politics.
GM to pay $220 million to settle allegations it violated consumers' privacy reut.rs/3UX1dO2
GM to pay $220 million to settle allegations it violated consumers' privacy
General Motors will pay $220 million to settle allegations that it illegally sold consumers' private driver behavior data and location information to third parties, Washington state's attorney general said on Thursday.
reut.rs
October 29, 2026 at 4:45 PM
GM to pay $220 million to settle allegations it violated consumers' privacy reut.rs/3UX1dO2
Amid investigations by ProPublica and others, officials across the country are demanding information about how online sportsbooks entice customers to keep betting — and proposing new rules to help protect consumers.
Federal and State Officials Ramp Up Scrutiny of DraftKings, Other Sports Betting Apps
Amid investigations by ProPublica and others, officials across the country are demanding information about how online sportsbooks entice customers to keep betting — and proposing new rules to help…
www.propublica.org
November 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Amid investigations by ProPublica and others, officials across the country are demanding information about how online sportsbooks entice customers to keep betting — and proposing new rules to help protect consumers.