Total Annihilation... couldn't get enough of it. Even playing strategy games today I desperately miss the elaborate control and mechanics of TA.

Hah, that'll be fun on my desktop... I don't even have a microphone.

We'll make some plugin that downloads the ad and tells Google it was "totally watched and stuff".

🤣 I didn't think you were trying to tell me something, I figured the Lemmy code goofed somewhere.

I'm undefined? 😟

Otherwise known as managing success. Once you have a successful cash flow you need to diversify it and build your business to have multiple cash flows.

Semantics I guess. Di-worse-ification isn't always the answer. They had a large product lineup, which was probably more expensive for them than it needed to be. They went under because they failed to fortify their balance sheet... rates went up and their debt crushed them.

Capitalism works fine just turning a profit while plenty of companies die chasing growth. It's just part of it.

It's not how they managed success, it's that they ran out of it. Making a successful niche kitchen appliance is not a business, it's one of many things that a successful niche kitchen appliance business does.

Successful businesses also allocate capital optimally, build formidable brand and product moats, hire amazing managers and build fortified balance sheets. They forgot to do all that stuff. (See also: reddit)

Several companies have called for this, and they all have an ulterior agenda. OpenAI just wants street cred and to have their competitors regulated. The rest simply don't have a product and want everyone to slow down while they catch up.

Regardless, they all know on some level the government can't stop AI just like they can't stop piracy or cryptocurrency.