When will people stop supporting this clown?
Remember when some people were like “well, I don’t support him, but I’ve had this Twitter account forever, so I’m not leaving.” This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.
Who saw this coming???
/s
But at a certain point, it’s still a cop out. And part of the trick. If you drown anyone in enough bullshit, you can’t expect it to all get called out – but that doesn’t mean it’s not all bullshit. It is divide and conquer in another form.
You also can’t do shit with their service, app and web, if you’re on a VPN. It just refuses. Even – and this may be illegal – unsubscribing from their emails.
This, and as far as I can tell, the only way to avoid being called a RINO is to completely eschew any kind of critical thinking and absolutely toe the party line regardless of how asinine or nonsensical.
This is the way
This result is predictable for a lot of different things that started as products and seem to be ending up as services.
Microsoft wants Windows to be a subscription service with the associated perks to the company (namely, targeted ads, and also extreme control over anything the system does, including this ad scheme), and so an increased number of people seek a more traditional OS.
The movie industry pushes streaming down everyone’s throat as a highly fragmented market where media ownership no longer exists; thus an increased number of people start to return to physical media.
Car companies push to paywall features of their cars behind subscription services. An increased number of people seek used cars which have no such paywalls.
The patterns are clear, in my view, but the C-suite is always driven by a naïve lust for ever-increasing profit.
And not to mention: the original versions actually run fine to this day. Pure money grab and they made the product(s) worse to do it.
Meh.
It’s not designed for or good for VR gaming. As an AR device, I find it a bit silly since I can just look at a real screen. It would be a novelty at $100, but at the price Apple wants I kind of think of it like a joke.
The infrastructure to support such things are naturally anti-privacy. Ultimately it requires someone to simply ignore other info that would otherwise be accessible. There could be a unique governing body for that part which is chartered for only sharing appropriate info, but even then, it’s an ask for people to trust that body and that it wouldn’t leak.
I suppose dropping humanitarian aid is kind of like dropping bombs without the boomy bits, so I can definitely believe it. The bigger issue is that the only effective way to get aid in is air dropping. If a certain country would be a little more sensible, the logistics could be easier.
Also: for a civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel to want to destroy us is unlikely. The universe is filled with resources. We pose no threat and don’t really have anything special.
My thoughts exactly. By this reasoning, Candy Crush Saga could get taken down for copying Bejeweled.
$3000 is way too much for a tarp stapled to the back of an overpriced pile of shit
The housing crisis won’t end until (among other things) corporations cannot freely own limitless numbers of single family homes. We will see perpetual renting because it’s effectively passive income for the corporations, and they have deeper pockets than 99.9% of individuals.
As companies own more and more, but don’t sell, supply dwindles, and the bubble never bursts.
I’m waiting for it to start using units of banana for all quantities of things
We paid for the development of the internet. We contributed the content. Now we watch the yacht owners take advantage of both because regulators are asleep at the wheel owned by corporations.
So true.
A favorite screening question of mine: “What makes you want to join [company name]?”
Ugh. I need a job and you’re my 20th application today. The world runs on money. The end.
I mean, the point of Debian is stability. If I’m running Debian then I’m not even gonna want to try and install the thing until after I’ve seen 100 people use it. I don’t think they’ll be looking for it in repos.
Just like corporate donations are “speech”. Some Citizens United logic here.