The “nearly” thing is the problem

unrelated, but seeing the 2030s pop up in “near future” news, is still feeling quite weird

Heck, just touching it destroys it

if you feel the need to bring your phone into the shower, you really need to take a hard look into your steamed up mirror

they tried, but the last pope shot caused him to get a bulletproof car instead

ಠ_ಠ

He is quite open about the fact that he didn’t invent the term

Edit: just looked it up in my copy of the book, and there he says he coined it. But I’m pretty sure he posted somwhere that it’s possible that he grabbed it up somewhere. otoh, multiple people coming up with a word happens all the time

Of course. Its main function never stopped working

Oh no, don’t slam me

please don’t expose any big balls anywhere, thanks

Careful, or I’ll blast you

It’s not like it already was shitty when version 3 was released

I still remember the hate for the new interface

Version 5 (“it’s so good, we skipped v4”) was even worse

lmao imagine not being able to read a post

Abuse report is sent

and a couple hundred requests deleted from the queue sigh

What a bunch of slopped together crap

It’s mostly their “pay later” stuff, which is quite predatory and has horrible terms for the users

But they had trouble with shitty behavior towards customers, employees and bad data privacy in the past as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klarna#Regulation_and_controversies

Might as well have been a teaching moment.

“Here’s 20 bucks, let’s run some ads and see how it impacts your channel”

“Didn’t change much? Well, wouldn’t you rather spend that money on something else instead?”

Part of teaching kids about the Internet is showing what ads are, the way companies use them and that there’s always a reason you’re getting shown them

As a kid I wanted some shitty toy and my mom went “well, if that’s what you want to spend your allowance on, sure. But I think it’s probably not as good as you think”, only for me to realize that she was right after I got it

You’re in luck. It’s linked in the article

klarna is a shit company for everything else, sadly

They are arguably worse than paypal nowadays, in regards to consumer treatment

Should they have been in the printers with access to the buttons? No

agreed, the kid absolutely should not have had access to it. And Google explicitly forbids it. But the dad put the kid in front of it anyway and said “you can use it, but only up to 20 bucks” and walked away

sure, I agree with that.

doesn’t change the fact that the credit card and ad service was used as intended

If I stab myself with a knife, I don’t blame the knife manifacturer about how shit they are because I stabbed myself by user error

It’s just a really shitty situation overall