I’m sorry, what sort of “hacktivist” group targets water treatment plants? That’s not hactivism, that’s terrorism.

Remember: ICE are not people.

… themselves. They’re coming for themselves. Republicans literally want Sharia law, just with lighter complexion.

Yeah, I don’t think it’s mold. Or demons. Dude’s 120% back on the benzos.

engaged to someone that appears to be a Magat

Where do you get this from? I’m not super caught-up with Taylor Swift’s lore, but I know that Kelce is largely progressive, and has quietly supported Kamala.

No shit, Big Tech is going to kowtow to whoever is in charge.

Remove Apple’s restrictions from the equation and just make it a PWA. This isn’t the sort of app that needs to run natively on your device, anyway.

Unless you like seminars about GNU, there’s not really a lot of original media on the Fediverse that the average person would be interested in.

The Fediverse is a niche within a niche.

That’s an example of it specifically not working.

You’re paying with your data.

If one day YT sets a “minimum requirements” page on their website to access their content, they’ve immediately ceded market share to the next upstart. Imagine if they broke viewing for all of the countless cheap (and e-waste) phones, tablets, low end IOT devices, “smart TVs”, and so on because they place a requirement that the device cannot meet. Those users will not throw away their hardware - they’ll migrate to the first available alternative way to watch content.

This all incorrectly assumes that there exists any viable competition to switch to. YouTube ran at a net loss for over a decade to get the reach they currently have, only because Google was one of the very few companies who could feasibly afford to do so. Nobody else with the resources to compete with YouTube is willing to compete with YouTube, because of the massive cost required to get even a fraction of that user base, let alone a critical mass.

And most of the content people access YouTube for is only found on YouTube, so those hypothetical users aren’t going to switch to a new platform, they’re going to either just flat-out stop watching or will replace their devices.

Those are fantastic solutions if you don’t want anybody to watch your content.

You said it on live TV, jackass. We all saw and heard you.

If you knew about any of the four reporters that founded 404 Media, or the incredibly high quality journalism they produce, this thought wouldn’t have even crossed your mind.

If one could ever actually read anything on 404 Media in the first place, maybe one would know that. But as somebody who doesn’t have the preexisting knowledge of who founded the org or what sort of reporting they do, it’s hard to glean anything useful when the articles are cut off by a paywall.

Okay.

You may notice that OP never provided a link to the instance. It’s not an advertisement, it’s a warning.

The point is, I don’t see any evidence of malice here, so I have to assume stupidity.

Oh, I definitely agree. I just think that Valve would’ve come up with a much better solution than a daily deal if this was a game from a big publisher.

I’ll bet you that if it was an EA (as in the publisher) game, Valve would’ve figured out how to send those wishlist emails.

“Do you want to be as dead as this dead fuck? Then sign right up!”

The use of “real jobs” already tells me that you don’t respect artists, which is likely the real reason why you don’t want to pay them.

Because, you’d find this hard to believe, that there are people who want to enjoy a hobby without feeling like selling out.

Hobbyists have bills to pay, too.