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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨happy partially muscled screaming skeleton day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Substantially better. It actually has a theme and internal morality that makes sense.

Zack Snyder has a real talent for totally abandoning the actual meaning of comics in favor of capturing an aesthetic and this is no exception.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck OLED announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Sometimes the downside to robust consumer protections is that you don’t get all the stuff. Norway has a guaranteed five year warranty that likely impacts profitability of compliance for some products.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Escapist murica-fires Editor-in-Chief - loses Yahtzee Croshaw and entire video team in hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Sadly, it is actually pretty normal in the US, hence the name.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The problem is that the bigger and heavier the craft the higher it’s minimum drop height is going to be because it’s more dangerous and needs more clearance.

Obviously it also becomes much more costly to run.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That’s true to all extent, but the more present online folks do end up driving behaviors about regular users as well. There was a tube when even having an ad blocker at all was a “power user” thing, now everyone does it. If they fail to accommodate the people that will put energy into circumventing ads then they will just find and normalize a new work around.

It’s similar to content piracy. You will never get rid of piracy altogether, but if you make content accessible and affordable you can mitigate how common it is.

For YouTube, they need to balance how intrusive the ads are against how easy it is to get around them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly, the association with Yahoo just makes the platform look like a joke. Like, the first time you do a search and it pops up as Yahoo your first instinct is thinking you’re using the wrong thing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Turns out there’s a reason that getting acting and everything delivered on demand hasn’t ever worked. It’s not a function that is worth the cost to very many people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
So much of the future just looks like fancy new ways to make machines legitimize and carry out our racism for us.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
We do have legislation to protect genetic information, what we need is to prevent the gathering and distribution of this information in the first place because those laws go away the second someone is positioned to make a shit ton of money from it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Must be nice living in countries where the government works for humans instead of corporations.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phasers set to "Bitch please"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
OG startrek was probably the “wokest” thing on TV in the sixties. And a bunch of grouchy old men that no one cared about bitched about it back then too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The complete unwinding of social safety nets, mental health interventions, and educational funding from the Reagan years finally culminated in a completely vulnerable population. Then we began the era of 24 hour news, extremist Identity politics, and just a general erosion of any semblance of shared American identity.

That’s a nasty little stew.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This implies that your food won’t arrive cold if you do tip, and that hasn’t been my experience at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For some reason, I'm doubtful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This was a computer for idiots even when it came out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Proton is so good now that there are games that have native Linux versions that run better if you play the Windows version with proton.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
His point is that the browser is integral to the functioning of the phones OS and is a decision that the consumer makes when they purchase a phone.

Your suggestion is akin to demanding the right to buy a Honda with a Toyota engine installed by the dealer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Seriously, the number of times I type something into the desktop search and want web search results is exactly zero.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tired of everything being about america⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
OP isn’t from an English speaking country, you should pay better attention before you call people stupid.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tired of everything being about america⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
You know, there is actually a whole internet’s worth of non-English content. It’s pretty weird that you don’t know that, given your complaint.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Because divesting means selling, which means.that you get money in exchange for property. How do you not understand this?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Which would still leave him insanely rich, so the answer you are looking for is “no, elon musk is not taking any actual personal risk here at all.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Again, none of that impacts him in any way apart from losing the ability to literally just do it again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Someone in a boardroom probably had a neat bar graph and PowerPoint describing how getting Grandma into IG is going to make them a fortune.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It’s impossible to say what anything is worth to a person who can lose 44 billion dollars and still have so much money left that the next 10 generations of their lineage won’t ever have to work again.

It’s insane to think of that as a trivial amount of money, but musk could literally lose 99% of his money and it wouldn’t impact his life at all, except for his hobby of bankrupting corporations.