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Re:Layoffs at Block by uoflcards22 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @05:56PM (#47173286)
The refusal to simply capitalize the first letter of a sentence is so obnoxious.
Re:Layoffs at Block by brap on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:15PM (#47173578)
It feels incredibly performative. Same with sama.
Re:Layoffs at Block by uoflcards22 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:40PM (#47173932)
Of course it's performative. They're all presumably on Apple devices. They literally went to their settings to disable auto-capitalization to make some kind of ridiculous point, i.e. "I'm too important too think about capital letters".
Re:Layoffs at Block by brap on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:40AM (#47179846)
I think it’s worse actually, I think the point is “I’m too chill and down to earth, I’m just like you fellow kids”
Re:Layoffs at Block by monomyth on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:02PM (#47173383)
Clearly the AI is not as widely used within the company as he proclaimed :)
Re:Layoffs at Block by khazhoux on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:03PM (#47173406)
high impact executives like myself are too busy to use up our precious time with minutia like capitalization. every second counts when youre a high impact ceo and thats just one reason why our compensation is 1000X your own.
Re:Layoffs at Block by Revanche1367 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:56PM (#47174145)
This was clearly a joke.
Re:Layoffs at Block by creamyhorror on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:48AM (#47179007)
No-capitals is 2000-2010s snarky highly-online millennial style, really