FreedomAdvocate

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[–] FreedomAdvocate 5 points 10 months ago

Geez a 100% price increase to the normal price is an insane hike. They must either be either at the point where they think they’ve got enough people locked in who won’t leave that it will get them a bigger margin and profit per user on the books (possibly for a sale of the company), or they’re in absolutely dire financial straits and this was a hail mary to save the company.

I never found enough use in Trakt to pay for it, or even use the extremely limited free version, so this doesn’t affect me. Unfortunately as the cost of living increases dramatically more and more services are going to be doing things like this. Holding off on price increases as long as they can is great, but had they increased it by $10 a year a year ago, they could have done another $10 now and more people would have stuck around.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 0 points 10 months ago

Their name comes from them being economically liberal, not socially liberal.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Their name comes from them being economically liberal, not socially liberal.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] FreedomAdvocate 3 points 10 months ago

Tried whichever ones the head doctor prescribed, changed until I found one that didn’t have massive side effects. The first 2 completely eliminated my appetite.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 15 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Mickey 17 is the latest one for me.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 50 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Bundling issues together like this should not be allowed. It’s done by everyone, and usually done to hold the actual good parts hostage. Oh you want to prevent asbestos from being used because it’s killing people? Well the only way you get that is by also allowing employers to hire 4 year olds.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 10 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Yeah but mainly because of how insanely good it was for the 3 years before that. Covid pumped insane amounts of money into tech, which in turn lead to hiring WAY more people than were actually needed. This is just the correction of that, getting back to sustainable levels.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (22 children)

One objective is to reduce layers of management, the spokesperson said. In January Amazon announced that it was getting rid of some employees after noticing “unnecessary layers” in its organization.

Sucks for those that lost their jobs, but this sounds promising. Layer after layer of management slows everything down. It turns a 1 hour task into a 3 month crawl of endless meetings and back and forth and waiting.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 10 months ago

Seems to have gone pretty well for the last 80 years or so. Don’t see any reason why that would change.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Are you trying to do this without a keyboard?

[–] FreedomAdvocate 0 points 10 months ago

It’s not a loophole though.

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