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*Yawn* shitty text.

The core is an idiocy/fallacy/stupidity called faulty generalisation: since some middleman jobs are useful, the author assumes “middlemen jobs” in general are useful. Even if those “middleman jobs” have barely to do with each other, except by not being directly involved into the production. (Cue to the examples: what do logistics and leadership have to do with each other?)

I think many people have some intuition that work can be separated between “real work“ (farming, say, or building trains) and “middlemen“ […] Like many populist [SIC] intuitions, this intuition is completely backwards. Middlemen are extremely important!

It’s rather disingenuous how the author only contradicts the popular intuition partially - note how the text still relies on its artificial division between “real jobs” and “middleman jobs”.

The rest of the text is as worth dissecting as Skibidi Toilet is.

Nah. Your government is doing the right thing here.

Two reasons to not redenominate currency:

1. It’s messy. The old and new coins need to coexist for some time, and people get confused. Specially bad in the presence of disingenuous = dumb = malicious actors; picture your typical Karen saying “it doesn’t specify in which currency it should be, so I’m entitled to pay it in the old currency! I DEMAND TO TALK WITH YOUR MANAGER!!!”.
2. It’s costly. Reprinting all money would cost more than just stop minting the lowest value coins, and slowly remove them from circulation (as they hit the banks).

Because of both things, you’ll only see redenomination without hyperinflation once in a blue moon; it’s simply not worth the trouble, unless you’re cutting off three zeroes or more at once. Also, note trying to solve one of the issues makes the other worse.

Source: I’ve seen my country’s currency being redenominated twice. (Technically four times, but I was too young to remember two of them.)

Yup, same “hide it behind a wall of babble” strategy. With a key difference: what is being hidden.

Trump typically uses this strategy to conceal outrageous claims, like this:

by the way and if she gets the pick, if she gets the pick, her judges, nothing you can do folks, although the Second Amendment people there is I don’t know but

He can’t say “if Clinton gets elected, please start a civil war” in the open, right? So he hides it behind babble.

Davaluri, though? He’s hiding… nothing. That’s the point, his comment says nothing of value. Social pressure forced Microsoft to release a public statement, and MS had three choices:

1. Tell complainers to fuck off. People get pissed, ditch MS products, margin of profit goes slightly lower.
2. Listen to the complainers’ demands. People get happy in the short term, but then really pissed since MS won’t change shit, and people hate to be lied to.
3. Say nothing. Complainers get louder and louder.

He picked #3, but disguised it as #2.

Title:

Article:

[Doug Henwood] Maybe I need to take some more drugs before I make any sense of this.

Nah. It doesn’t make sense, not even if you’re high.

Before reading the link, lemme guess: “we’ll dress it in a different way, and still ship it. Regards, Microsoft.”

After reading the link: wow! I managed to overestimate Microsoft!

[Davaluri] Hey Gergely, I am responding here, and I think this applies to a bunch of the comments that people have made. I mean, a lot of comments . The team (and I) take in a ton of feedback

“Feedback”: mincing words for “backslash”.

We balance what we see in our product feedback systems with what we hear directly. They don’t always match, but both are important.

Emphasis mine. So, the data of those “feedback systems” clash with user complains. Are the systems broken? Naaah, it must be the users /s

I’ve read through the comments and see focus on things like reliability, performance, ease of use and more. But I want to spend a moment just on the point you are making, and I’ll boil it down, we care deeply about developers.

He’s babbling “we care about you” to distract the reader. Diversion tactic.

We know we have work to do on the experience, both on the everyday usability, from inconsistent dialogs to power user experiences. When we meet as a team, we discuss these paint points and others in detail, because we want developers to choose Windows.

Blah blah blah. Diversion tactic still going…

We know words aren’t enough

Implicit: “trust us (be gullible trash), this will be more than just words”.

Specially hilarious because he’s babbling a lot, but in no moment he says anything MS will do to address the complains.

it’s on us to continue improving and shipping. Would love to connect with you about what the team is doing to address these areas if you are open to it.

“Let me pretend this is a problem with you, as if you were the only one complaining about this. And let’s make it personal.”

[Jawad] It’s good to see Microsoft’s Windows chief at least acknowledging feedback

He isn’t.

while Davaluri’s comments on the direction of Windows are slightly encouraging

If you think corporate babble is “slightly encouraging”, I have bad news for you.

AI could have written both Davaluri’s quote and the article as a whole.

Perhaps it refers to скала? I know камень and скала mean different things, but both are loosely “rock” in English.

The strategy of using Windows monopoly to force other programs+services is so deeply ingrained in Microsoft that, when it fails, MS doesn’t know what to do. Specially when dealing with a bigger bully like Google.

First MS tried to be pushy with Edge. Users remembered IE, and said “no”.

Then MS tried to be even pushier. Except being too pushy backfires, so users were saying “no” louder.

Now they’re offering “rewards”? This won’t change shit, except highlight that MS knows Edge to be useless to the users, and that the only way people would consider using Edge is if they’re paid for that.

And it’s no secret that Edge is a reskinned Chromium. As in, anyone who’d avoid Google software would also avoid Edge.

Lemmy has Reddit. PieFed has Lemmy.

Also, from 4chan’s PoV, Reddit is more like a boogerman than a boogeyman: it’s that weirdo creepo that makes you say “eew”, avoid at all costs, and if you touch them by accident or social pressures (“why no handshake?”), you immediately wash your hands.

Instead the actual boogeymen are internal: for /g/ it’s /a/, for /b/ and /int/ it’s /pol/, and for almost everyone else it’s /b/.

In this video (Odysee link), someone asks X11 users why they’re still using it in 2025. The main answers were

1. DE or WM doesn’t support Wayland, or its Wayland session is currently WIP.
2. [lack of] support for certain graphic tablets and their features.
3. old hardware. Specially old nVidia GPUs.
4. [If I got this right] Some software expects to be able to dictate window position, and Wayland doesn’t let it to.
5. OpenBSD.

In the light of the above, I think GNOME’s decision to drop the X11 backend is a big “meh, who cares”. If you use GNOME you’re likely not in the first case; #2 and #3 boil down to hardware support, not something DE developers can interfere directly; I’m not sure on #4 and #5, however.