Twitter and Tumblr are operating on skeleton crews but are able to make changes.

Craigslist is still around even though it hasn’t changed much since the '90’s.

There is an entire industry of companies that buy old MMO’S and maintain them at a low cost for a few remaining players.

Southwest Airlines still runs ticketing on a Windows 95 server.

I think you’ll see more companies accept managed decline as a business strategy.

I’m not saying you can fire everyone, but the maintenance team doesn’t need to be the size of the development team if the goal is to only maintain features.

Most extension today is enshitification. We’ve also seen major platforms scale to the size of Earth.

If you’re only going to maintain and don’t have a plan on adding features outside of duct taping AI to the software, what use is it maintaining a dev team at the size you needed it to be when creating new code?

I don’t know. I look at it like firing all your construction contractors after built out all your stores in a city. You might need some construction trades to maintain your stores and your might need to relocate a store every once in a while, but you don’t need the same construction staff on had as you did with the initial build out.

They should be fired for cause now.

The fundamental idea behind insurance for police is that they bear the financial cost for being shitty people to the point where they can’t afford to be shitty cops. However, that isn’t how professional insurance works.

In any organization with professional insurance, it is usually the company that hires the individual which bears the cost of insurance, since the company has a lot of control over the individual. There are usually additional requirements for the companies vending professional services to have senior leadership be licensed professionals. Cops in police departments fit that framework.

If you want cops to get fired for insurance risk, that means privatized police forces who have to bid on police contracts. That’s the fucking premise to RoboCop.

I’m not sure it would work. As a licensed professional, the insurance coverage for my work is carried by my company. If I become that much of a risk, my company would fire me.

There is no way that a police union would allow their members to be fired due to insurance premiums.

Trump doesn’t have a reason to reign in Musk, yet. Musk is the tip of the spear to making changes per Project 2025 and gives Trump plausible deniability when Musk breaks things.

Get from point A to point B without a human.

Trump also had people organizing for Trump’s second term in a way they hadn’t for the first term. There was no Project 2017 equivalent and the main person with any governing experience around the transition was fired due to a family grudge.

Sounds like OP was from Canada.

You can have users, but they need to participate.

Politics flood All because that is what most people post and upvote here.

Building a new community requires yelling into the void for a few months and heavy cross promoting to get any traction.

Yeah. There were a lot of people saying they wouldn’t vote for Biden or Harris due to one issue, even though Trump wouldn’t be an improvement on that one issue they wouldn’t vote for Biden on.

Now they’re angry that Democrats have very little power to resist Trump.

I find it interesting compared to the USA.

The USA has migration from richer parts of the country to select poorer parts because the lower cost of living makes up for the lower wages. There are also states that built themselves in part on the back of being a low cost of living place to retire.

Why isn’t Europe there yet?