They don’t

There is nothing to gain from interaction with Meta/Threads

Extreme wealth

Windows 10 is the last version of Windows (that I am going to use)

This illustration does not imply that the car is moving. There are no “speed lines” or arrows that would indicate that.

So the illustrated setup would 100% work.

On the one hand this is a bad that this happened to you, because the reasoning is completely idiotic.

On the other hand it can be a learning lesson that it’s better to write your birthday as April 20th, and never as 4/20.

PS: Please name that company publicly. Maybe write a short mail to a website about tech news, like https://arstechnica.com or https://www.wired.com. You could also try the blog https://boingboing.net

Because I want to see Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism happen in my lifetime.

I stopped buying Ubisoft games years ago. It was around that that time where they forced always-online mode on their single player games.

I stopped playing their games (literally) because I was sure from that point on the user experience is only going to get worse. I thing I was right in that decision.

The strategy is called “Not beeing a publicly traded company”. Valve is a privately owned company.

Publicly traded companies need to increase value for their shareholders, which means they have to raise their quarterly profits at any cost.