I don’t think they are

I guess you get some thoughtfulness and economy of words kind of for free them. Reminds me of how (I think it was him) Edgar Allan Poe would write with slow-to-dry ink, so he would have to take his time when writing.

I suppose that depends on one’s writing process.

For my part, I usually end up deleting needless words or clichés on a second pass.

It’s a good question if you’re unfamiliar with this quote.

Once you get to a certain depth of vocabulary, and basic level of skill in writing, it’s easy to write a lot of text.

You can sort of “talk around” your central point, adding reams and reams of text, sketching out your point in a crude outline, eventually arriving at a complete picture or just stupefying your audience into submission.

This kind of communication is evidence of “thinking out loud,” where you know the vibe of what you’re trying to say, but figure out your logic at the same time as you’re saying/writing it.

Especially in writing, this would be considered a first draft. If you take the time to think about what you’re trying to say then you can often refine/reduce your message to a more respectful length (a shorter one).

tl;dr easy say lot meh, hard say little good

Harder to quality control for though

People said that with Raegan. I mean they were right then too, but my point is as bad as things get there is still more to lose.

But what if I don’t care about the company, our products, our customers, or any of my (soon-to-be former) co-workers, and just want a pile of money right now for selling all that out?

I don’t know if it was always like this, like pre internet, but I remember when I first started hearing people concerning themselves with the profitability of corporations online.

It was somewhere around the start of the eternal September (I was one of the unwashed tech illiterate masses), and I witnessed people having the most furious debates about video game company / console profitability, and it just never ended.

I wonder if it was just my first encounter to seeing so many Americans in one (virtual) place, or if it was the latent tribalism of the internet, or just nerds having fun crunching their nerd numbers. But I still see way too much of it.

It has got better in some of the chiller places on the internet, though. Which are about the only places I frequent.

Curious to hear other people’s perspectives on this kind of parasocial relationship with corps / brands.

Whoa

There are ways, yes

Yeah I was being obtuse

Google has a browser now?

Please God let me remember this line for when the time comes

It’s inherently antisocial. You no longer have to play by the social contract with that kind of wealth/power.

It’s a grave failure with our economic system that billionaires have been permitted to come about

Wow! So things must have gotten a lot better for people over the last 7 years!

Right?

I’m on 3 active forums and 2 lemmies and 2 mastos and I just leave myself logged in. It’s nothing like that. Somehow that’s still a better user experience than discord

If I’m being charitable I could presume that they left them so as to not disrupt sting operations

Totally. It’s no wonder tobacco companies are deeply invested in smoking cessation and alternatives (or so I’ve heard - don’t ask me for a source).

Great analogy. I’m my experience there is an inverse relationship between the amount of time to find a bug and the size of the patch to fix it.

Sometimes it’s just one character off.

Involves a cat, well known meme vehicle for millennia