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[–] 153 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Are people still fans of corporations these days?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    I just popped in to say IMAGINE being a fan of a publicly traded company. They'd stomp your balls and punch your tits for an extra dime if they could. Any company with more than one shareholder is not your fucking friend.

    Your dads construction company? Fine. Anything that has more than one shareholder? Probably would kill you and cover it up if it cost less than it gained them.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    a fan of billionaire owned sports team, i never understood that at all.

    i play a variety of sports but don't watch any, aside from occasionally cheering friends competing in local events

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Small businesses are often worse, since there's less oversight, more willingness to gamble on 'risks', a need for higher margins to stay afloat and generally fewer different interests at stake. The issue is private ownership in itself, not how that private ownership is structured.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Knowing some small local business owners I’d say that the problem is that the business reflects the owner’s personality - so you can have a place that respects both its customers and employees or a shithole owned by person too high up their own arse, which is often the case with IT firms.

    Made a mistake of working at one, with owners boasting “we were the first ones to do X thing in our market”, whilst the office was a musty basement in middle of nowhere.

    Nowadays if I know that certain business is owned by person or group of people I don’t like (be that due to their personal values or affiliations with certain politicians or whatever) I make sure to avoid supporting that business and I spread the message to friends and colleagues.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    This is going to be like the notch again right? Marketing hides the crease, everyone is surprised when they get one and there is a crease. Outrage, but then no one cares and continues to use the phone.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'll wait to see what jerryrigeverything says (I'm expecting a slaughter)

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Who TF spends 1500€+ on a phone?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago

    Fuck that, you still spying through TVs like a perv, Samsung?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago*

    I keep posting that the zfold and zflip 8 is gonna be the last good foldable generation from Samsung because this cycle crap is what happens every time Apple finally catches up:

    1. Small OEM makes some sick hardware advancement
    2. Samsung applies cool hardware into a secondary product
    3. Everyone is happy and enjoying product
    4. Several years pass
    5. POS Apple finally catches up with the hardware standard and releases their next iphone for a morbillion dollar price tag
    6. A shifu ton of Apple users buy it as usual
    7. Samsung marketing makes fun of Apple for two months
    8. Samsung execs see all the Apple money and then copy Apple's POS hardware spec for the next generation of their product
    9. Repeat

    I still remember when Galaxy was the flagship of Android and made the iphone look like a joke Chinese knockoff in comparison and now it's just an iphone clone with equally crappy software to match.

    Apple, Apple slop buyers, Samsung, and especially Google can all go screw themselves.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    Screen cover designed by Apple btw

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