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New comment by pebble in "Game Pass Was Supposed to Save Xbox – Instead, It's Killing the Company"

pebble — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:04:07 +0000

Doesn’t sound like you’re the target demographic.

New comment by pebble in "Game Pass Was Supposed to Save Xbox – Instead, It's Killing the Company"

pebble — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:03:31 +0000

I think piracy is besides the point here. Most people will pay for a month, finish the game they wanted to play and then cancel. This goes for both pirates and land lovers. What MS has in the end is a game sold for a fraction of the price and no customer conversion to subscriber.

New comment by pebble in "We want Texans to know their rights"

pebble — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:36:17 +0000

You’re putting words into that hypothetical person’s mouth.

New comment by pebble in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

pebble — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:25:35 +0000

There was nothing uncivil in the response the above commenter gave.

New comment by pebble in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

pebble — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:04:16 +0000

Sometimes a well-meaning fool is worse than no help at all.

New comment by pebble in "Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France"

pebble — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:29:31 +0000

Is this value in the room with us?

New comment by pebble in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

pebble — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:56:18 +0000

So people should be getting financially ruined to god-forbid prevent some abuse of the system? As long as there is no abuse everything else is hunky-dory?

New comment by pebble in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

pebble — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:21:35 +0000

I see nothing here rebuking the above claim. Maybe you would’ve had better luck coming up with something if you had bothered to write it yourself.

New comment by pebble in "Resetting Xbox"

pebble — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:22:33 +0000

I think you got lost, this is not the Steam forums.

New comment by pebble in "Multilingual experience linked to delayed aging"

pebble — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:17:09 +0000

Let me tell you about a little thing called kpop. Korean language courses are booming.

New comment by pebble in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

pebble — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:12:01 +0000

Only a bigot would see a problem with that.

New comment by pebble in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

pebble — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:47:05 +0000

If Microsoft sells ICE a subscription to Office then yes.

New comment by pebble in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

pebble — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:27:12 +0000

That’s a very low bar.

New comment by pebble in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

pebble — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:13:18 +0000

I can back up their first point a tiny bit with regards to canvas. The primary product of our company is heavily canvas-based so I’ve always noticed that canvas on Firefox on macs is slower than on Chrome but it used to be in the 2-3x range and nowadays is more in the 1.5x range. They’ve made great improvements and I’ve never noted anything close to 5-10x slowdowns.

On Windows Firefox and Chrome canvas has performed equally well at least for the past ten years. Got no data for linux tho.

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:42:40 +0000

I would say it's more likely that the hours and wages are the problem.

A few grumpy delivery workers aside, most people in Estonia are nice in general. You should come visit :)

I don't know where you are but consider that the reasons your postal workers are pissed of may go deeper than simply being government employed. Could it be your state-owned services are being managed in way that makes their workers unhappy because they are run by people who think that government services even need to be profitable in the first place?

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:26:20 +0000

Sure, because that's not all it means. "It's just business" is the excuse people tell themselves to justify the things they do.

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:21:13 +0000

Less efficient or less profitable? Also I'm gonna need to see some references for those claims in your last paragraph.

Funnily enough it's the couriers working for the private companies that I see looking more and more dead inside recently.

So, yknow, anecdote for an anecdote.

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:14:30 +0000

I admit I could've probably used more words but when someone says "it's just business" that is a clear example of how the particular flavor of capitalism we live under has enabled and indeed encourages brushing away any moral and ethical qualms as "it's just business" and as you say, it was quite interesting to see how many people immediately jumped to dictionaries, communism, and whatever else the moment capitalism was criticized.

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:01:39 +0000

Sure, as a theory capitalism is just a free market but I obviously mean capitalism as it exists today and shapes our entire world. And socialism has it's own can of worms, sure.

But what I was responding to in particular with my original comment was the parent commenters claim that "It’s just business" and that engaging in capitalism means you must inherently engage in the practices the OP was complaining about.

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:49:40 +0000

Well all the things OP complained about are inherently caused by capitalism but I think it’s probably possible to engage in capitalism in a way that is cognizant of those issues and actively trying to avoid them instead of treating them as eh that’s just how business is done