4grams

joined 1 year ago
[–] 4grams@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

yeah, this one has broken me, there's no way I can support anyone who's currently running. I'll probably write in myself which I know is a waste but I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter anyway. we get to choose between genocide and the death of the nation, or take the comedy option on the guy who drove his wife to suicide while high on heroin to, I don't know, give the brainworms something to do while dying of mercury poisoning...

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

Well, guessing I know what my family is about to spam my inbox with..

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago

it’s like we have all watched these dystopian future movies and instead of heeding their warning, we all said “hold my beer”.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

Ha! This is a glorious future we’re living in…

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago

Oh, I’m totally kidding, it would be soul crushing (crusher?) to hear her voice coming from these nightmares.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is not the AI I was expected after growing up with Star Trek. I’m trying to picture just what horrors the replicators would come up with if hooked to this abomination.

Then the other clowns go and steal scarjo’s voice instead of Majel Barrett. What a future we’re building here…

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 215 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I have no opinion on the Star Wars/Dune debate but that is one fantastic comment. Kudos to the author, brought me quite a smile.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just like their name, it’s just a slogan. They wrap themselves in flags and bibles and folks fall for it every time.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago

Agreed! The phone I’m typing this on right now is dressed in my finest yellow TPU.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean, the article goes into how their real estate was gutted, which could have provided a safety margin for them to restructure. But again, I care nothing for red lobster, but I see the same pattern as happened with so many others. Read into Sears or Toy-R-Us for example. It’s the pattern of these parasitic private equity firms. They look for these struggling businesses that have assets they can come in to exploit, hastening the demise.

In the end it’s not so much that I care about these businesses survival as I angers me to see a few corporate fucks stripping away the value that workers had built over the years and leaving destruction in the wake.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but shitty chain restaurant that may have had a chance to improve had it not had its organs harvested while still alive. I honestly don’t give a shit about red lobster but I hate the corporate theft that we just let happen.

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