Prove_your_argument

Unless they make trump the chairman of the board and replace the rest with his chosen mouthpieces, he’d rather pocket the trillion in a Qatar slush fund.

If it was like 25b maybe they would do it, but 1400b is better spent erecting gold monuments in every city with a 3 year lease that has terms to drop the monuments off in maralago

The scale of their commitments is just… too big.

Yeah! We need to take Greenland because checks notes that’s where fentanyl comes from and without it we will get more brown people!

Seriously brown people are all the argument they need. The racism is insane with the party. Maybe they can say that Greenland is being invaded by tren de aragua and we need to bring ice there to improve our community. It’s the same logic we already have right? As in, devoid of it.

I don’t have ads with them. Their poor tier is the ad tier.

I’m close to dumping them though. Price increases are out of hand. Content feels razor thin compared to how it used to be.

It should cost less per person as they grow userbase but instead it costs more. They pocket the economy of scale while we get fucked.

These guys are desperate for revenue. It’s a last ditch effort cash grab so they don’t go bankrupt.

They’ve already committed to spend over a trillion dollars on infrastructure. They’re going down long before that ever happens.

I can’t comprehend why the highest executive at one of these places would get paid more than 250k. It’s a nonprofit in fucking ohio, MCOL in cities at best, LCOL in huge swaths of the state.

They wield tremendous power. Nonprofits should not be tools for oligarchs to shelter assets and defraud the public, but they are all over the US and probably the world.

$159,974,600 in “Salaries, wages, and related fringe benefits” for 2025.

Why would a nonprofit company that supplies databases of library metadata need to pay $160 million dollars to staff? You can run a midsized business for that. https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/annual-report/2025/pdf/2025_OCLC_Audit_Report.pdf

2024 executive earnings: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/310734115

Key Employees and Officers Compensation

Prichard David (President & Ceo) $1,347,322

Rozek William (Cfo, Treasurer) $832,584

Murphy Bart (Chief Tech. & Info. Officer) $765,667

Leeches.

WorldCat.org is provided by OCLC, a nonprofit global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs so libraries can better fuel learning, research, and innovation.

In what way does anna’s archive work contrary to their mission?

It doesn’t. It does their mission better than they ever could. They provide no value beyond the database that is being shared for free by anna’s. There must be some salaries or some soft power being wielded somewhere by someone who doesn’t want that to go away.

With zero user reviews of the EA, and no reviewer info out there at all.

They already talk about taking a % fee from private servers and mod sales, and they are hyper-aggressive about moderation. This is targeting the roblox crowd by the looks of it’s aggressive focus on mtx/paid experiences while sidestepping publisher fees like steam.

The AfD is on the way to run the show, like many far right factions in many nation states of Europe.

The only way to stop tyranny is to stand up to it, and angry lemmy posts won’t do that. The danger is always much closer than the “foreigners” so many xenophobes like to point out.

Once tyranny is in power the resistance needs support, not condemnation. I thought this was known 80 years ago, apparently not so much today.