Saxoboneless

@Saxoboneless@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there’s an in-depth reason for it, but there is one that scrapes Old Reddit, instead of the main site, and it works great for me (Stealth on f-droid). There’s also RedReader, a client that was allowed to keep API access because of it’s accessibility features… which I guess Reddit just couldn’t be bothered to implement into their own app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well for one, Jews and specifically Israelis don’t have to go anywhere for Palestine and Palestinians to be free?

  Like the slogan just does not at all necessarily imply what you’re imagining (or what the US congress claims) it does. That slogan’s been around longer than Hamas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s PlayStation Portal gives a confusing first impression⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s for people that both own a PS5 and liked the Wii U.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube is also that way. It’s just that it gets buried down by the shitload of people who use it.

  Eh to degree, but the reason neonazis and bigots seem to flock to/make up a majority of these sites is often because they’re getting banned on YouTube - and these video platforms opt to survive by leaning into that instead of properly moderating their platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  …and the video game industry makes more money than any other entertainment industry. Yes, these things should cost more than just their production cost, but there is currently an obscene amount of money being made by the people at the top of these industries - y’know, the ones whose main role in making and distributing the product is just already being obscenely wealthy. And while I don’t really care if AAA games are overpriced if they’re only $60, I do care if life-saving meds are being held for ransom.

  Do y’all need reminded that insulin, a life-or-death drug that’s been around since the fucking 1920s, only costs at most $10 to make but currently retails for up to $300 a vial? It does not fucking matter whether or not this particular treatment should cost $13 or $90, the markup on any life saving drug being over 1,000% is blatant price gauging at the expense of human life, and the fact that the pharmaceutical industry does this all the time is common fucking knowledge. Anything approaching a defense of this shit either is in fact astroturfing or is so braindead as to call it a necessity that a publicly traded company demand the sick either choose debt or the grave.