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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Other companies? Companies also need things, so they would also need things to buy and sell. Buying and selling to each other doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable, particularly if the goods are non-physical. A company selling editing services for articles to a company that writes those articles for a news company who might be selling stocks to an investment company, and ad space to an ad company, etc.


    Realistically, though, that doesn’t tend to be that high a priority, or much of a long-term worry. Most of the concern these days seems to be focused more on the short-term profit more so than anything else, even if it will ultimately harm the company.

    Not that it would really matter for most, since a lot of the people who might otherwise be affected would likely be out and away by the time that that rolls around. It would barely affect them.






  • That’s… it? You can get knighted for being “fairly good” at your job for half a decade, and then quitting?

    Yes. Knighthood is generally up to the whims of the monarch. Although to make it there, it’s generally expected you have an achievement significant enough to be befitting of one.

    But from what I recall, there’s little stopping his majesty from conferring a knighthood onto Chief Mouser Larry for his research into the napping suitability of 10 Downing Street’s furniture, if he wanted to do that.















  • Especially for the level of changes that have taken place. Lemmy basically had a major rewrite to move away from web sockets, and Lemmy.world’s operators are running overtime just trying to fix the site up, and make it work for the massive amount of users that they have, addressing a few of the scaling issues in the processing.