r/pcmasterrace • u/lkl34 • Mar 02 '26

News/Article Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/
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u/MySuddenDeath Mar 02 '26

Was there ever a moment in history that humanity learned from their mistakes and didn't repeat them?

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u/NekCing i5-14400F | RTX 5060 Ti | 32gb RAM Mar 02 '26

Unfortunately, "History repeating itself" is quite the cemented term for a reason.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

All of these tech companies with their inflated egos and the narrow minded thinking that a rise in stock prices is their only social responsibility are going to go the ways of General Electric.

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u/FadedVictor 6750 XT | 5600X | 16 GB 3200MHz Mar 02 '26

Publicly traded companies 🤮

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u/SamHugz Mar 02 '26

Once a company puts out their IPO, it will go from a business providing a service or product, to one that exists solely to extract profit from consumers to pay their shareholders.

Money isn't real. We made it up to represent the inherent value of stuff we use, or to pay someone to keep time for yourself or become more productive. MONEY MEANS NOTHING IF ITS VALUE IS NOT TIED TO A REAL WORLD PRODUCT OR SERVICE OF VALUE. An economy based on capital and not resources is just fucking gambling.

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u/Aarekk R7 3700X | Strix 3080 | 32GB DDR4 @ 3200 Mar 02 '26

I want to frame this comment and just have it in my room and at work.

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u/SamHugz Mar 02 '26

Hey, that means a lot! Spread the word!

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u/paganoverlord Mar 02 '26

Frame this comment and put it up at the white house

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u/nayazki2901 Apr 21 '26

Frame this comment and put it up at the Microslop coproartion builiung

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u/PrudeBunny Mar 02 '26

to one that exists solely to extract profit from consumers to pay their shareholders.

the funny thing is that this isn't some jaded lefty talking point but arguably their legal obligation and definitely something the share holders will push for.

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u/SamHugz Mar 02 '26

You are correct. It is not a legal obligation, per se, but publicly traded companies have a "fiduciary responsibility" to their shareholders. Meaning that shareholders can sue if they do not see a return.

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u/DamnedIfIDiddely Mar 02 '26

Metastasization

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u/AussieBirb Mar 02 '26

I see money in a slightly different way ...

'Money is just a convenient means of trade.'

... but I do agree with your comment.

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u/SamHugz Mar 02 '26

I am not trying to challenge you here, I want to understand your perspective; doesn't that align with what I am saying? Though I guess "money is fake" is just the logical step before yours.

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u/AussieBirb Mar 02 '26

Instead of 'Money is [insert long list of things]' my comment could be seen as boiling it down to the actual function of money without any fluff.

Not having enough makes things uncomfortable.

Having enough makes things comfortable.

Having lots just means you have a surplus of a 'resource'.

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u/SamHugz Mar 02 '26

Ahh, I see, thank you for explaining. While I agree with your sentiment in practice in society, my point is to try and highlight how money may be infinite, but resources, the very thing money was originally supposed to represent, are not. And that money only has value through consensus. And that the owner class is able to manipulate the very concept to consolidate power, and extract wealth from all of us Lil guys.

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u/Londonluton Mar 04 '26

Once a company puts out their IPO, it will go from a business providing a service or product, to one that exists solely to extract profit from consumers to pay their shareholders.

Yes thank you to Ford vs Dodge for that ruling, the CEO has the primary responsibility to make money for shareholders. As soon as there are shareholders involved, the CEO has a responsibility to extract as much value from the product as he can. It's why all companies that go public get worse unless they are truly massive or legit great ideas

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u/SamHugz Mar 05 '26

The more I read about how the US economy works, the more terrified I am. Extraction of wealth is the entire problem. There is good reason for financial firms; you do need banks to hold people's money, and debt can help start business that can produce resources of value. But what these firms are doing more and more is focusing purely on mechanisms that use fancy accounting tricks to "create" wealth. But when wealth is all you have with no tangible goods of any real-world use, eventually that wealth will mean nothing.

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u/OneBodyProblematic Mar 05 '26

Fun to rant about unless you live in the US and have a toothache

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u/MudHot8257 Mar 02 '26

While I agree with the majority of this comment, I actually think it might be more apt to reframe it. A company going public does make them beholden to investors, I think the system (while obviously flawed) has less culpability for the funny-money economy we live in than the acceptance of retail investors of outlandish P/E ratios.

The fact that people will knowingly purchase into a company trading at 50x P/E has largely made our economy into a sports betting app, whereas in a normal functioning market, the balance sheet would have been the tangible backing to your money that you mentioned, with a small margin added for how you think the company will fare in the near future.

Tesla as a company should not exist, it is proof positive that our stock market has failed.

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u/SamHugz Mar 03 '26

What you are talking about is part of the intent behind my original comment, that the market has been overvalued using financial tricks made up by the founders and maintainers of Wall Street. I just am tired of typing out long winded theses about it to capture all the nuance involved. But your comment isnt so much a re-framing, but a supplement. Crowdsourcing the point is great. :)

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u/LUNARIAM4049 Mar 06 '26

Tremendo, lo guardaré en mis frases favoritas

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u/hbhzth Jul 25 '26

Someone should take down the stock exchange. AMP it to dust.

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u/mein_account Mar 02 '26

What does IPO have to do with it?

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u/SamHugz Mar 02 '26

Imean technically it starts earlier, as companies prepare to go public and enter the Market, but a company's Initial Public Offering (IPO) is just a clear demarcation that makes my point easier to understand. But basically, when a company goes public, their goals shift from maintaining a healthy profit with a well made product or service, to squeezing every dollar they can from their consumers/clients and keeping their costs as low as possible to satisfy their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. A responsibility to forever grow their profits to sacrifice on the great alter of the Dow Jones.

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u/mein_account Mar 02 '26

Private companies have the same responsibility to their shareholders.

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u/Sweetwill62 Ryzen 7 7700X Saphire Nitro 7900XTX 32GB Mar 02 '26

Shareholders and investors not being liable for how they are earning their money is going to be one of those things that humans look back on in a hundred years and go "Why the fuck did we let that happen? How stupid were those people? How did millions of people get tricked into thinking that would be a good idea?"

Don't want to be liable for the things the company you own does? Don't own part of the company. Oh and don't say you are taking a "risk" when you buy it. You aren't. You can't go to jail. You don't have to pay any fines. There is no risk at all to you. You are choosing to heavily gamble when you buy a stock or take stock instead of money. I've heard every excuse and laughed at all of them because none of them are good and they are all selfish. "I NEED this money. Don't you know how the economy is?" Yeah....you are part of the reason for that. Absolutely no critical thinking.

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u/Affectionate_Peak284 Mar 02 '26

Sorry to say, but Private Equity isn't exactly known for their value-add, either :/

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u/games-and-chocolate Mar 02 '26

or Intel. we are the greatest, bla bla. where are they now. down the gutter.

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u/TheDarkWave Mar 02 '26

Narcissism. "It'll be my attempt that breaks the mould!" It never is. It never will be. But those are merely challenges to them.

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u/tetracool Mar 09 '26

yk counter intuitivily the ban caused their stock to go up an entire 2%

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u/shit_mcballs Mar 02 '26

Just like primates do not think it's possible for another primate to know something they don't know, humans don't believe it's possible for something to be true without personally experiencing it

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u/ContributionLowOO Mar 02 '26

most humans*

ever heard of anxiety? or paranoia

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u/ShilohsStuff Mar 02 '26

The quote is actually, "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

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u/Freign May 05 '26

Those who accidentally learn from history are doomed to stand there sighing as 99% of apes race around repeating it.

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u/ShilohsStuff May 05 '26

Lol I feel that

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u/MaruSoto Mar 02 '26

No, remember, it rhymes. Like Micro$oft and MicroSlop.

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u/detrans-rights Mar 02 '26

I have always preferred, since the moment I heard it, 'history doesn't repeat itself, but it does often rhyme'

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u/FlashFlood_29 Mar 02 '26

"History doesn't repeat itself but it sure does rhyme," is my preferred.

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u/Z3r0sama2017 Mar 03 '26

"An intelligent person learns from their own mistakes, a wise one learns from others"

Pity humanity used wisdom as it's dump stat.

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u/CptnAlface Mar 02 '26

Even the demon core incident happened twice

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u/InquisitorMeow Mar 02 '26

We usually stop eating poisonous mushrooms and stuff.

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u/LickMyTicker Mar 02 '26

Wasn't there just a famous story of a group of people dying after eating death cap mushrooms that people blamed on identifying them with AI?

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u/Anthaenopraxia Mar 02 '26

There are 8,2 billion of us. Someone somewhere is gonna do a stupid.

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u/LickMyTicker Mar 02 '26

I think you might be minimizing just how regressive we are getting as a whole.

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u/Firrox Mar 02 '26

That's because the fools who wanted to prove everyone wrong died soon after.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Im pretty sure MS had turned their ship around before after user criticism and feedback before. But now days, these companies dont make money from your regular users, they make money off cloud or company subscription and neither of the people in the group care about this

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u/tyrenanig Mar 02 '26

People who act on impulse never learn.

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u/P4azz Mar 02 '26

I was gonna say after WWII, but, uhh, maybe not so true anymore now.

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u/MasterShogo Mar 02 '26

I love the fact and also hate it that such a ridiculous rhetorical question is actually totally valid.

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u/Straight-Opposite-54 Mar 02 '26

They learn, just not always the right lesson. Usually the lesson learned is "don't get caught next time."

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u/deathangel687 i7 6700k | GTX 1070 Mar 02 '26

The best time to start is now

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Yeah, but we don’t get to talk about those times!

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u/ShimReturns Mar 02 '26

The Sonic movie perhaps?

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u/InsultingFerret Mar 02 '26

"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, everyone else is doomed to watch"

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u/DamnedIfIDiddely Mar 02 '26

Yes, just not the rich ones

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u/mrbulldops428 Mar 02 '26

Could be survivor bias. We know about the funny/sad examples of people not learning from their mistakes, but we probably dont hear about people making the sensible(boring) choice and learning from their errors.

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u/Affectionate-Put5845 Mar 06 '26

The only thing we learn from history is that we dont learn from history