@bajax Yes and it's the most mid thing in existence I got one for free once and that's the only time I'd ever have it

@mischievoustomato @karn

@karn @binkle there is an old adage in the financial industry that firms avoid hiring people convicted of insider trading only because they were so bad at hiding it they got caught

@karn @binkle insider trading has always been somewhat trivial it's just that with stocks and derivates you are usually required to report things if you have some financial tie to that (not that it matters), crypto and predictions markets make doing that kind of fraud effortless

@binkle @karn when you fire all of the people that do regulations turns out people just do whatever now

Unreal and Epics entire tech stack has such an astronomical level of technical debt I cannot even wrap my head around it. Even Epic Online Services, a relatively new project, contains unfixable bugs because instead of writing something simple they just shoved a billion black-box libraries inside of it and now they don't understand why it misbehaves on very basic use cases

@RustyCrab the entire tech industry is built on a mountain of sand and "someone else's problem"
Though that's also basically every industry when everything financialises

@grumbulon (this space intentionally left blank)

@binkle @Aether @YeetLibs It's partially that and also if you do more search results Google gets more advertising revenue and search growth makes the shareholders happy and makes line go up; it's like the greedy stereotype you'd find in something made for 5 year olds but it's done by an MBA that used to work for McKinsey (business model: Uber for evil people)

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

@gray @kirby because everyone else has it and nearly the entire world economy is hinged on this one extremely narrow aspect of things that even the most profitable company (Apple has a higher profit margin than even Nvidia) needs to shove it down everyone's throats so some 54 year-old working for Morgan Stanley in midtown Manhattan decides to invest more in Apple therefore making the line go up even harder (I say this as markets are having their worst week since the last time Donald Trump did something dumb)

TL;DR short term gains and marketability

@bajax not that far off apparently some crypto criminal (I repeat myself) was looking up wire fraud and how to launder money after committing wire fraud

True geniuses these people are

When I do crime the very first thing I will do after committing said crime is "how do I get away with doing crime" it works great for anyone who has tried it

The kids these days have it too easy
- Socrates

@bajax the title is clickbait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgXeeOCQVYs

@bajax Yes and history is just repeating itself now I was watching a video grumb suggested to me of undisclosed short form native advertising which is illegal but who is ever going to get in trouble anymore
Everything is short form gambling ads

@benis_redux you're not wrong but that's not what I had in mind (tbh they're all the same)

Short form video content should not exist it takes the “hot take” culture popularised by that website and making it even worse

People getting paid to post on any platform was a mistake

@cassidyclown @KaiserKitty @ruina the ICC might downgrade your charge to a simple crimes against humanity charge so instead of executing you, you get spend the rest of your life in the Hague

@cassidyclown @KaiserKitty @ruina a little genocide never hurt anyone except all of the people you systemically remove