by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead - ThreadSky

unormal.bsky.social • 1 day ago

by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead

Reposted from Aftermath

Meta has spent over $100 billion on VR.

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gabbklein.bsky.social•1 day ago

"don't worry, we know exactly how you want this to turn out. Trust us!"

cometsncats.bsky.social•22 hours ago

That shirt makes me dizzy.

I'm assuming I'd immediately hurl if I put on a headset.

$100B puke machine

joelsftw.bsky.social•1 day ago

How do they even spend this much money? I mean just..... how? And look at how much they're spending on AI! we should tax/eat the rich at 85%.
That's right, just leave them as torsos.

hpsc24.bsky.social•1 day ago

kijjambu.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can you please help ys so that we can get something to eat😢🙏?

joelsftw.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah!!!

pdthomas.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am eating that. Why put evil into your body on purpose

a1extimmons.bsky.social•1 day ago

And if people haven’t seen this incredible video about Mark Zuckerberg and why they do what they do you really need to take the 30mins to watch it. It’s really good. https://youtu.be/GhUw-W0Amfs?si=mTWfm2CLEpXi-cYa

seanjmay.bsky.social•1 day ago

And then fires 4000 people, at one time, for "poor performance" despite having 0 evidence that all 4000 were on performance-improvement plans with their managers at the exact same time (or at all) and many examples of glowing reviews and)/or being on maternity leave... "efficient visionary", indeed.

pedsortho.bsky.social•1 day ago

For that amount of money, they could have:

- $80B = solved four years of homelessness ($20B x 4 years)

- $10B = buy the Dallas Cowboys

- $7B = buy the Los Angeles Lakers

and they would still have $3B left over to help destabilize democracy

brute.bsky.social•1 day ago

I still don't understand why it costs so much to hunt homeless people.

solitaryhyena.bsky.social•1 day ago

Might be an overestimate, but also is just a "throw money to a short term solution" kinda deal anyway.

johnlk.bsky.social•1 day ago

We can fund everything the government does with VC rounds, right?

ringoyote.bsky.social•1 day ago

To which they will then lock basic fucking services behind a paywall, like the mail, the library, public roads.

Etc etc

oldhoundderby.bsky.social•1 day ago

USAID’s annual budget was significantly less and actually accomplished useful things like saving lives, preventing illness and generating goodwill.

The only thing Meta accomplished was peak cringe.

cambrianera.radical.town•1 day ago

"We should run the government like a business."

alkaizer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why do people say this?
Has noone worked for a business?

kaitave.bsky.social•1 day ago

The people saying this are generally the ones in charge of businesses and are therefore typically the most insulated from the negative effects of how they run those businesses

alkaizer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Its not just idiot businessmen tho,
Its idiot peons that i work with
at.
a.
business.
A business we all agree is stupid and handles itself like a "cow in a trolley".

aggiegold.bsky.social•1 day ago

For whatever reason and it's mostly conservatives I've noticed who believe this, they assume that billionaires are smart and earned their money. So if they were in charge of the country they'll have it successfully ran. There's no evidence and the logic is highly flawed but that's it.

aggiegold.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's the billionaire bootlicking and bootstrap bullshit that they fully buy into, it's an incredibly naive way of living by a group of cynical people who just assume the black and brown people around them are lazy leeches

clockworklady.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Why does this image look worse than The Sims 4.

detocroix.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wish we could take that 100 billion meta magic money and give it to VRChat devs, and see where they could take it. I'm sure it would be bett-... err, even better than it already is

froregon.bsky.social•1 day ago

I too can customize Sims!

jalixe.bsky.social•1 day ago

His community is just a racist shitty VR chat where kids shout the n word without getting banned.

kittysmooch.bsky.social•1 day ago

one hundred billion dollars and the finest valley engineers versus the raw gumption of furries and weeaboos riffing on a free platform to make their ocs real

fcpcal.bsky.social•1 day ago

They blame dei for all their failures

ianbobmorris.bsky.social•15 hours ago

a theme i see a lot in these situations is not accepting that the uses decide what the use case is and trying to shove it in everywhere

elfpile.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why does Zuck think anyone would want to play in his Matrix? Is he that deluded?

foxfirefey.bsky.social•1 day ago

Got a friend that works there and while I believe he does good work I get screaming jealous about how much hardware he can get on a whim while my workplace doing science research is always scrabbling to make do

unormal.bsky.social•1 day ago

oh yeah all the individuals, like government staff, are consumate professionals, being run by moronic capital

phasebinary.bsky.social•1 day ago

next time meta fires their worst performers I expect to see Zuck and all the VPs retiring to spend more time with their fmailies

foxfirefey.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah the amount of research they’ve done on how to make the consumer affordable hardware work is nuuuuuuts

unormal.bsky.social•1 day ago

the metaverse just cant succeed without the two things capital cannot allow

1. sex
2. inappropriate use of intellectual property

buffaloshuffle.bsky.social•1 day ago

it's really funny to see the successful version of this be vrchat which is basically a furry/anime sex dungeon

foxfirefey.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah they’d get a lot further hiring some of them vtube obsessives and making the MetaFurs

monarchdiaries.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Nobody wants to buy it tho.

i-jamieous.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, but $26B of that was spent on developing Zuckerberg's new look.

phorrums.bsky.social•1 day ago

We forget about his island fallout bunker.

jrodbad.bsky.social•1 day ago

And I'm gonna guess at least some of that was spent on attempting to make his love for barbecue sauce look slightly less bizarre. (And failing, probably.)

rewhan.bsky.social•1 day ago

I do kinda get why people find it hard to believe, though; a hundred BILLION is a number so big it sounds fake.

wood-mousse.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don’t believe it’s possible to spend 100 billion and come up with something that looks that bad. So I do agree with you, it sounds fake

ringoyote.bsky.social•21 hours ago

In my theory, they only spent maybe 20 million in this virtual game thing

The rest went to his little scardey bunker

ringoyote.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I have a possible theory that the whole VR Horizon thing was a cover story to find Zuck's doomsday bunker in Hawaii.

rewhan.bsky.social•1 day ago

That, or the contractors are fleecing the everloving hell out of Meta

wood-mousse.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, I meant to imply that Meta is money laundering.

whirringsoftly.bsky.social•1 day ago

When huge amounts are spent on what appears to total crap it's safe to assume that money laundering is a big part of it.

ringoyote.bsky.social•21 hours ago

its money laundering.

how else is the doomsday bunker on Maui getting paid for?

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-compound/

ninjamonkey.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, it’s way easier to gamble with OTHERS’ money. Have you tried it? It’s great. All the reward and none of the risk :D especially if the company takes the legal hit.

ninjamonkey.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s all “do as I say, not as I do” mentality.

whelkaholism.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nothing costs 100 billion. That's 26 of the UKs newest aircraft carriers, of which we have 2, widely considering a waste of money

whelkaholism.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's six months of the entire NHS budget, which may not sound a lot, but it's free healthcare for an entire heavily populated country vs The Sims 2 for people who take LinkedIn seriously

whelkaholism.bsky.social•1 day ago

It could run London for five years.

whelkaholism.bsky.social•1 day ago

Or, for a more worthwhile cause, it could find UNICEF for ten years