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Who has been long-awaiting a Warcraft 3: refunded patch?

They are "complaining" (more like reporting) about ads for people who paid to not have any.

Do you have a subscription with this media company?

Now when I open a Google map link my wife sent from messenger, messenger opens a copy of maps inside messenger that doesn't work half the time. Is that excluded from link tax?

When musks puts unskippable ads to go to content instead of reading it almost in its entirety right on the site (with an ad besides it), is that also link tax?

Enshitification of links is what will break the internet. Musk would be the first to sue for this.

Ya can't skip the ads, but you can skip the platform! (I dont use them but yeah hopefully it backfires)

It's a mix of that, but also they have to make good on all these "AI investments" that "boost productivity" and allow employees to do more. I'm a principal engineer so it was part of my job to assess how much these tools actually boost productivity and they don't at all. They change where the mental power goes, but it's not really faster and is more mistake prone. If I had to make a comparison, it's a bit like a concorde plane, it's technically faster airspeed, but then you spend all your time trying to make a thing that can shove air out of the way faster than it wants to move (supersonic) and that's just a lot more effort in other areas. Notice concord planes are nowhere to be seen despite existing for decades and being objectively faster. Not worth, but in the AI craze who cares.

They also took advantage of taxpayer funds to boost their profits during the pandemic, and that money is gone now, so if you aren't cutting a big part of your staff, either you didn't take advantage of the pandemic, or you did and you have dead weight. It's important to note that most big tech companies made record profits during that time.

If you were a tech company and you weren't killing off a chunk of your staff, it was a signal something was wrong with your business in some way. It's entirely a speculative stock market thing, which is all that matters these days. They can invent other reasons why they aren't meeting targets.

TLDR; those losses are on another spreadsheet

Yep, and in many cases people got let go, then rehired 2 days later when things got cleared up, and kept their severance. The layoffs were mostly rushed. One guy was going to be a speaker at an event for the company, and as everyone sat down waiting for him to hop on stage, they hadn't realized he was let go. Absolute waste just to make the numbers look good on paper, but a huge loss of investment.

Imagine youre a senior engineer with 2000 stock units with accelerated vesting (was about 32$ at the time), severance at least in canada was over 20 weeks of pay lump sum given the collective dismissal + vacations. They were dropping 100k(before tx) to engineers to make them go away, and hire them back the week after.

Worst company I've ever worked for, but I did make a pretty penny that week. Luckily I got hired a month later somewhere else.

I don't give a shit what the waiter wants honestly, I shouldn't have to pay the owner and the worker separately

Cmon dude. All these people are saying we don't need these laws because waiters can just quit to pressure businesses to pay them well. So why do these laws even exist? You didnt even respond to the last post. I wont hold my breath.

Businesses that don't have convoluted pay schemes that involve tips will die, and businesses that advertise tipping isn't a thing will thrive, like has happened many times in the past.

You know what doesn't change anything? Forcing the people stuck in the system to get more stuck in the system..

Yeah lets ignore all of history and just invent stuff about "free markets". All this and you haven't addressed why we bother with minimum wage at all if this was true. Or why we bother with OSHA if construction workers would just pressure companies to change.

You know when the ad for your phone bill says "no hidden fees" ? They know that's what people cared about, and they changed it. Now it's just commonplace even when it's not regulated. Shoving this on the worker makes no sense, the employer has the leverage

He is the one to blame lol, we all agree.

When you go to the restaurant, pay the food (owner) but not the waiter, you are playing right into the owners game (who is to blame).

So congrats on supporting the assholes creating this economic problem (they can't run a profitable business). Next youre going to tell me human traffickers are the assholes buuut people should just stopped getting trafficked and leave, so that human trafficking stops being a thing. Because power dynamics have nothing to do with this of course.

So we don't need OSHA? We can just let construction workers quit if the contractors make them do dangerous stuff?

Youre a bit oblivious to your privilege. People can't just quit or yknow, they starve.