orcrist
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- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 7 hours ago:
Except what you’re describing doesn’t make sense. If the new owners purchased all of those things, then in reality they purchased the company. Courts are very likely to agree on this. It looks like a company-wide sale, therefore it probably is, even if someone tries to add a line saying “we aren’t liable”.
But imagine someone could “sell everything other than the liability”. In such a case, the seller would be putting themselves on the hook to pay outstanding debts (i.e., the seller would be liable). And we know they have money – they just sold the thing. So then the seller would pay… But they know that in advance, so they would not agree to such a sale in the first place, unless they were planning to steal that money through creative accounting of some kind… But both parties know all of that that in advance, so they would both be acting fraudulently.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 8 hours ago:
I think a company like this is not planning to linger for years. The owners wanna make a buck for a year or two and then sell it off. If they can stiff their customers in the process, they just don’t care.
For long-lasting companies the motivation would be different. But this is not a world-famous VPN company, not by a long shot.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 4 days ago:
You have just argued against the article itself. Should we believe you?
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 4 days ago:
This is overly simple. You can’t legitimately believe that an explanation only focusing on one person is sufficient to predict American politics. Nope, no chance. Meh.
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 1 week ago:
What a terrible headline. All of us? No. Next.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
Holy f***, God forbid making settings menus that actually get you to where you want to go, definitely wouldn’t want to do that, much better to AI.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 1 week ago:
It’s not just you. The title gets causation totally wrong. If people made bad assumptions about how technology would change in the future, it’s their assumptions that are the problem, not reality.
- Comment on Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk 2 weeks ago:
I agree. And there is also a situation like this, where even if the claim is truthful, It doesn’t actually change anything. He could shift from being the CEO to being the number one advisor to the company, and given his ownership, it would still be the same in effect.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 3 weeks ago:
Right, but Tesla has had time to push new code to their cars. So we could get a negative result now and still have past shadiness.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
That’s the entire point, right? Just use an instance that’s in a country that’s not closely allied with Turkey. Everyone knows that, right? Right?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You should have known that there was nothing to gain by telling him what you did. Kids that age are smart enough to realize that if they aren’t being selected to the local all-star team, it’s because they’re not an all-star. If they go to football camp and they aren’t one of the best people at the camp, they’ll realize that they’re not very likely to go pro. But you decided to make it your business at a time when you didn’t need to, and that makes you a jerk.
You said that you’re just being objective and realistic, right, but you decided to tell your son your opinion, and not someone else. If you were actually trying to be objective, you would have told everyone on the team what you thought about their potential. Of course that would be really rude, which is the point.
What you could have done is what many other people have mentioned in the comments. Something about how there’s no guarantee that anyone can make it pro, or how long they’ll last if they do, because random injuries can end your career, and the median length of a professional footballer isn’t very long anyway, so there’s still the rest of life to live.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 month ago:
I’ve never had compatibility issues. Of course many people have, but a lot of the time people are blindly speculating about potential badness.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 month ago:
Of course there are alternatives to Excel. Anyone pretending otherwise has only worked at a few places and is generalizing with great but mistaken confidence.
But even if there weren’t, think about those companies living on the edge of one software breakdown. There’s a word for that: brittle. Meh, YOLO.
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 1 month ago:
When I’m shopping for cell phones and reading reviews a routinely see comments about the amount of bloatware embedded on various manufacturer’s devices. People actually do care about it, reviewers actually do write about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I don’t think postmodernism had much to do with it. Go ask your average MAGA racist if they even know what that term means and they’ll shrug their shoulders. Similarly, the research does not show that your echo chamber theory holds water, and in fact it suggests the opposite. In the days before the world wide web, people were actually stuck in echo chambers, that being the communities where they lived.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 month ago:
Doesn’t that depend on the forums, though? For many organizations, those sites fit the needs perfectly fine. If you don’t care about archiving and you would not be totally screwed if the forum disappeared tomorrow, you’re going to opt for something simple like that.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 month ago:
First of all, they won’t arrest everyone. Even extreme governments on the tail end of their horrible leadership don’t arrest everyone. They need some citizens to be there working jobs. Rather, they would aim to arrest enough people to scare everyone else and then some other people randomly just for the hell of it.
But if you think staying under the radar is going to make your life better, maybe you should read some history books. Who do you think is coming to save you? Who do you think is coming to make your community better? When do you think they’re going to arrive? Outside forces will not fix contemporary US political problems. It doesn’t work that way, not when everyone has armies and nuclear weapons.
Sadly, quite possibly things could get far worse before they get better, so if you want to plan for some unfortunate eventualities, that might be a reasonable decision. But don’t think for a second you can run from them. And even if you could, what kind of human would that make you? What kind of person do you want to be?
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 2 months ago:
There are no absolutists, my friend. Everyone has limits.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 2 months ago:
No, it doesn’t mean that. Think about what you are suggesting.
- Comment on for real this time guys I mean it 2 months ago:
It is funny how he is playing himself. Companies that export to the U.S. are obviously trying to establish and stabilize other markets, because that’s basic economic stability. As they continue to do so, his tariffs continue to lose power.
- Comment on If everyone goes to baseball games by car and everyone gets wasted like Randy Marsh, how do people get home? 2 months ago:
Drink and drive? Also, understand that in some states, you could have 1-2 drinks and depending on your body and the exact timing still be under the legal limit.
Of course responsible people have a designated driver. That definitely happens, but not as often as you would hope. So we all know that if you live near the arena, be extra careful when the game ends, because half the drivers around you are drunk. That’s common sense in the big cities.
- Comment on What are the exact ramifications and consequences of the recent meeting with Zelenskyy and Trump/JD? 2 months ago:
Of course the US promised to defend Ukraine. That was the Budapest Memorandum. That is why Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal. Trump is lying again.
- Comment on Are conservatives mad about trans people or they just mad they get walk around out of the closet while they have to leave the white sheets at home? 2 months ago:
Bigotry leads to more bigotry. If it wasn’t trans folk, it would be Mexicans. Oh wait, it’s both, right? … The reasons don’t matter to them. All they want is hate and harm, and that’s what they live.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Oh, my dear, Canada wouldn’t get any voting rights.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
Elon Musk is also an idiot. He thinks he’s smart enough to quickly understand complex situations and complex problems about which he knows next to nothing, within just a few minutes.
Most people would only try to claim that level of understanding in areas with which they have professional experience or about which they’re extremely geeky. He does it with everything, and nobody can be an expert in everything, and everybody knows that except for narcissistists.
I suppose for non-tech people it might be convenient to assume that because someone knows something about some kind of tech, they therefore know a lot about all kinds of tech, and the reality is that’s just not true. There are so many fields that are totally different. But if it did, actually he would look even more idiotic, because Twitter is a train wreck, so clearly he’s incompetent in tech field, right?
- Comment on Mainstream media's face when Trump dies of a hamburger heart attack and they have to go back to reporting like they used to. 2 months ago:
There already is a ton of great media out there, but many people are not looking for it. If you’re trapped by the US news cycle, start reading international news. It doesn’t solve all the problems but it solves many of them.
And more to the point, consumers have been willing to pay for subscriptions to newspapers for decades, and they’ve gotten burned by it. You’re saying that money is the answer, but it didn’t work before. It’s not working now.
- Comment on Mainstream media's face when Trump dies of a hamburger heart attack and they have to go back to reporting like they used to. 2 months ago:
They started reporting badly in the 90s (Fox News), if not decades or centuries before that. It is on the consumers to consume better media. The companies that failed won’t fix themselves, ever.
- Comment on When they say they got your back, that means they will stab you there. 2 months ago:
I’ve never heard an HR worker pretend to care about me, lol. Those jerks are at least too busy to pretend. Integrity of a sort, lol.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 2 months ago:
Why would you buy a flagship phone? It sounds like you want not that. And not that exists.
- Comment on Even California can't say no to prison slavery. 3 months ago:
Even California? California is really big on that, last I heard.