It's always funny to see a statement that is clearly meant to convince the author, not any external party.

Birds aren't real 2.0

I love it.

Right up with the crypto scam that followed it. Great.

In case you didn't know, the creators of Birds aren't real rug pulled and stole millions with their crypto coin.

If true, you have to admire their commitment to the bit.

I didn't find anything about this though.

You want to look for Enron - they bought the hostname as part of something

I saw a couple stories about that which suggested it was a parody shitcoin. Even if not, the name Enron should've been an obvious clue.

I was unaware of that, disappointing.

Look, make a decision and stand by it. The constant back and forth just exposes you as not having any principles at all.

Not sure why you're being downvoted. Thank you for what you do.

There are a lot of Google and Meta engineers who are convinced that they're not the bad guys.

Appreciated, means a lot.

I'm not surprised at the downvotes, but someday we all have to look in the mirror and decide if we like what we see, but it's easier to downvote in the meantime.

If I may... I suspect quite a few of your comments have been downvoted for being a little—frenetic. In many ways, your work here (together with your previous work experience) speaks for itself, at least to those of us who get it.

Unfortunately, awareness-raising and solution-building are probably two entirely separate stages for this issue.

I’m used to a quick fire response format for legal questioning. My words are carefully chosen, but I do reply quickly because I played every question in my head in advance.

The dig on downvotes however was intentionally cheeky. I’m well respected by many engineers who worked with me, no hard feelings, just a little teasing.

> I can’t be the only person who’s getting tired of hearing about how every new iteration is going to spell doom/be a paradigm shift/change the entire tech industry etc.

There's a little bit of a grading your own homework aspect to companies being able to declare their new models revolutionary.

It doesn't mean they're wrong, but there is a clear conflict of interest.

I have a feeling he might be angling for a pardon if he ends up bringing the whole global economy down.

> I get it —

well done

I'm curious what protection by the state do you think Americans receive?

None because it's a corrupt cesspool?

You make the argument from the consumer side, it's hard to argue, but digital systems are far more profitable. So that's how we got the world we got.

It turns out that "makes the most money for a small amount of people" is pretty much the same as "makes everything shitty for everyone else". It's time that we either stop accepting "most profitable" as an excuse for making things worse or start regulating/punishing bad behavior until it becomes so costly that it's no longer profitable.

Your response comes packaged with a pill that I believe many people would not swallow: If it makes more profit then we should do it.