25 years ago, I could see how they had a kind of rugged romantic working appeal back when trucks were four wheels, chassis, big engine, and two seats. They don’t seem to make those any more, I only seem to see the giant luxury wanker variety.
maybe you could ask every other country that’s done it.
Yeah this is like the third post like this I’ve seen this week and apart from being unoriginal and unfunny, it’s also fucking childish and shitty.
At least it lets me know who to block, since I know anything else they have to say is also likely to be of no value.
Trump had their head of state assassinated, barely a month after illegally kidnapping Venezuela’s head of state. He’s the one choosing to set these new norms.
The company run by sex predators is doing other unsavoury shit, you say?
Fuck Joanne Rowling in particular, BUT, I don’t think this particular post is a good example given what it’s actually saying…
If you’re a salaried employee who isn’t currently looking for work then this might be an option. If you’re a consultant who relies on networking then LinkedIn has a near-monopoly. If you’re not on it then potential clients will assume there’s something wrong.
Same bullshit happened to me when they froze my account after their AI bot flagged me with on false positive for “discrimination” (I’d posted a job with a legitimate language requirement).
They then made me go through some humiliating ritual of having to write them an email with a written promise that I wouldn’t break any discrimination rules, which I hadn’t done to begin with, but the support clown wouldn’t reinstate my account until I’d done their specified grovelling.
I used to be philosophically anti-piracy in principle, and would often argue online against people who posted disingenuous or self-serving justifications for their actions. But these days the amount of piss-taking by the publishers has destroyed my resolve.
Yarrr.
I think it’s a deliberately bad name chosen as a Malicious Compliance type fuck-you to people who wanted it to sound “professional”.
There’s already Latex
wait what? Latex is used in tons of non-sexytime things, surely nobody’s raising an eyebrow at that?
Maybe I’m thick but that seems like the answer is the same as it is for anyone selling something on a website without blockchain.
1000% if they tried even slightly they could have passed the server to the community to support legacy gamers, but are choosing to just shut it down instead because crypto bros are always psychopaths
Yeah, the irony is that I’m sure you could do some sort of blockchain-based DRM that didn’t need a centralized server. Does such a thing exist? Patent pending…
That’s a great example of the exception proving the rule: companies across all industries do shitty things on the regular, but incidents like Jimmy Kimmel only happen when you get a once-in-a-year massive swell so big that even I heard about it, and I don’t even live in the US.
Your example doesn’t prove that the buyers control the market, it demonstrates just how weak that control is and how big a backlash is needed to get even a tiny change made.
are you a bot? I ask because that response was grammatically completely coherent and intelligent-sounding, but the entire content bore no relation to reality. I mean there’s not even anything to argue with, it was just straight up 100% wrong.
just don’t buy the games that use it
This is called the “Free Market Fallacy”, and is always a terrible defence of any shitty practice, whether it be games or vehicles or banks or HOAs. The market just isn’t liquid or efficient enough for that to be a reasonable position.
It’s a thread about comparing Signal to Telegram of all things
The relevance is that it’s not some unaligned security professional talking in the article, it’s literally the guy that runs Signal having a pop at his competition.
Also the sort of person who shouts that the loudest, will happily go along with any suggestion that the amendments they don’t like were a corruption of the true spirit of the Constitution and should be repealed.