Well stated. I don’t know why it reminded me of the old Mr. Show sketch about the politician who runs on making fun of a fat guy, and later his own wife:

If your wife had a face like this, you’d run too!

Astute point, they’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater here and hurting the disabled community to push their inferior product that nobody really asked for.

Just because I don’t use it doesn’t mean others who need it also don’t.

He said he doesn’t want to be taken alive.

“Okay then we won’t.”

According to Wikipedia the Philippine National Police has over 70,000 glocks in service.

You know the old saying: “glock glock.”

For sure, but I am also capable of doing that with my thumbs… which is what I do.

Good thing I never used Google Assistant then.

Secret Agent AI, Secret Agent AI

They’ve given you a name, and taken away your number.

Ah, so Jeffries wants to prove how much of a milquetoast useless wet sack of shit he is, too.

modern copyright law is far, far overreaching and in need of major overhaul.

https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf

This research paper from Rufus Pollock in 2009 suggests that the optimal timeframe for copyright is 15 years. I’ve been referencing this for, well, 16 years now, a year longer than the optimum copyright range. If I recall correctly I first saw this referenced by Mike Masnick of techdirt.

Relevant

Jesus’ mum was this woman, the Virgin Mary, who one night got visited by an angel and told she’d been gotten pregnant by a Holy Ghost. Of course, actual ghosts jizz ectoplasm which only contains ghost sperm, but Jesus wasn’t born a phantom, leading experts to believe Mary wasn’t impregnated by a real ghost, but by a man in a sheet like in Scooby-Doo.

-Philomena Cunk

Still, none of those people seem to think things through our even think long term.

Exactly, this was a full two years after Netflix had already started their online streaming service no less. Disney+ didn’t launch until 2019, twelve years later. They could have had that institutional dominance at nearly any point but spend a solid decade pissing it away before they finally made use of that intellectual property portfolio.

It reminds me of something only semi-related.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200727091104/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/business/media/04hulu.html

Dec 3, 2009

As she prepared her daughter for college, Anne Sweeney insisted that a television be among the dorm room accessories.

“Mom, you don’t understand. I don’t need it,” her 19-year-old responded, saying she could watch whatever she wanted on her computer, at no charge.

That flustered Ms. Sweeney, who happens to be the president of the Disney-ABC Television Group.

“You’re going to have a television if I have to nail it to your wall,” she told her daughter, according to comments she made at a Reuters event this week. “You have to have one.”

Like Disney-ABC in 2009, these fucking dinosaurs of companies plan to just use institutional dominance and money to force themselves into the position they want to be in. I suspect it will work about as well as Sweeney’s efforts to nail a TV to her daughters wall. (You want to use screws for that anyway, you fucking dipshit, Sweeney) Sweeney was so confident in this approach that she related this story and what she said at a press event. This is how fucking stupid these people are, they’re willing to relate a story like that as though it shows strength and not shortsightedness and ignorance.

In other words, I don’t expect it to work out very well at all.

With the way they’re killing the real economy and giant corps have been focused on stock buybacks instead of investing in their company and workers, it’s almost assuredly going to happen now. People fear Nazi retribution more than they like high pay, and high pay in a quickly inflating currency that will likely lose status as the world reserve currency won’t mean much. Nobody wants to be paid in bitcoin, either.

I will say that joining an instance that does not federate downvotes confers some very real mental health benefits.

All I see are your 15 upvotes, friend. Don’t be discouraged from sharing your experiences.

runaway, uncontrolled, corrupt capitalist

I would actually argue that the only word I disagree with here is “uncontrolled” because it was very tightly controlled for a long time, which allowed the relative stability that let America be a big bully on the world stage, force the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and lead trading partners to believe we were bullies but mostly trustworthy and would follow through on international deals we made.

Now we are truly entering the “uncontrolled” territory, and that’s why faith from other countries in the US being a reliable partner is faltering.

It’s kind of sad that it isn’t as pronounced as it was on Digg.

This article fails to mention that Huffman has previously praised Musk and how he runs Twitter.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow.

More importantly he’s a doomsday prepper with fucked up views:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.

Now do Jimmy Buffett

I’m a millennial, I’ve been on the verge of homelessness myself my entire adulthood. In my adult life a full time job at minimum wage has never been enough to rent a studio apartment nearly anywhere in the country. Not once in my life have I have enough to really live on my own, have a choice about where I live, or didn’t have raising rents pushing me to move elsewhere. I doubt I’m the only one who has had such deep lack of stability that the idea of hosting refugees (or anyone else for that matter) has been purely a fucking pipe dream.

That being said, I have dreamed of being able to take care of those I know who are struggling, but I have been denied every opportunity due to struggling myself.