I think I’m very similar to you

I want to have a feed of topics I’m interested in, very rarely do I care about a specific individual, and the case that I do it’s probably because they’re a local restaurant or something like that, basically all I use Instagram for is a glorified photo menu for food I might want on a given weekend

Piracy is a service problem.

Provide a good enough service and people won’t want to pirate. Anyone that still does in that scenario probably was never going to be a sale anyway.

Provide a bad service and people who would have happily paid get pushed towards piracy. The more people pirating, the better the tools get as you say.

People just want all their shit in one place for a reasonable fee.

It’s not rocket science, they already were there back when Netflix was new, they just let it get shit.

Okay so they’re not getting vaccinated and now they’re guzzling unpasteurised milk whilst cattle all over the US are dying of this latest bird flu?

I’m starting to think this right-wing shift might sort itself out

(Before anyone says, I know this is very bad for avoiding another pandemic which won’t care about how you vote)

I really don’t understand the actual party pushing these conspiracies

Surely they’re just gonna disproportionately kill off their voters?

EA aren’t interested in anything that they can’t use to manipulate kids into gambling

It wasn’t that hard to cancel. People are just dumb

If a subscription is harder to cancel than it is to sign up, that’s anti-consumer. It’s not really anything to do with anyone’s intelligence.

Homeless people might use layers of all kinds of stuff to stay warm (think newspaper, etc as a common material), they also don’t have the privilege of being able to wash their clothes very often. There could have been all sorts of things that compromise the flame retardancy of the clothing.

People don’t typically expect to be set on fucking fire while they sleep, so it’s not usually a risk to be concerned about.

The guy that did this is an absolute psycho

Yes this is exactly what I was thinking of, thanks!

Where have I seen this before, and does it involve Mario Kart?

Interesting he’s had the idea to force the world to become less dependent on trade with the US

Kinda thought of all things he wouldn’t want to risk reducing the value of the dollar like that

Edit: won’t this also make the prospect of moving more global businesses abroad more appealing?

It sucks, but in a world where some flavour of liberal is the opposition party to the right in most countries:

Vote in the more left option in a two party choice, and things may improve for your average person.

Vote the right-wing option in, you guarantee they won’t

It’s hola all over again

And the cynic in me sees this as all by design

Say they’re gonna bring the big companies to task, actually destroy alternatives and entrench the corporate players further

I feel like I’d even trust Zuckerberg over Musk with my email

And I’d never trust Zuckerberg with my email

I miss when rich guys just bought sports teams

Do you not need to put your CCV in on most purchases? I’d say it’s more often than not that it asks

Oh no, in light of this maybe he won’t be elected anymore

Oh wait

Well shit, I’m gonna need another lockdown or something to play everything that’s been announced today

I’m glad you picked an appropriate instance when you came to Lemmy

Purity tests and purges

Fascists gonna fascist.