It’s sad to see how time and time again companies build up a big user base by being the best service out there, and then just assume that they’ll be the market leaders forever and ever no matter how much they enshittify.
The amount of vendor lock-in with something like Google Maps is very close to zero.
Murdoch seems to be entirely hands-off now that he’s trained his heirs in the dark arts, so there’s a limit to how exciting it would be.
deleted by creator
I didn’t, I thought it could be any of about 3-4 people by now
Honestly I think some people just want to be offended. “Oh I can’t use this in class because of the name” is complete nonsense. If the faculty are going to immediately assume you’re doing weird sex things with the kids then you’ve got bigger communication problems.
I think it must be a spectrum or something because I’m fully capable of mentally picturing things in detail if I want to, but it’s a thing I have to actually /do/. It doesn’t just happen automatically when I’m reading, I have to make a deliberate decision to picture the scene.
I remember the claim that the introduction of tasers would mean police would be able to apprehend suspects instead of killing them. Turns out police carried on shooting suspects just as much as they ever did, and just started using the tasers to force compliance and enact summary corporal punishment rather than to defend themselves.
ACAB
no, but you’re not just comparing it with nothing, you might also want to compare it with other kinds of oil. The absolute number itself is barely relevant, what most people want to know is which oil products are healthier than others.
The rotisserie shrinks it.
the correct pluralization because ‘Spider-Man’ is a title, not an object
It’s not a title, it’s his name. Pete Spiderman.
I was excited for the rotisserie function of my new oven until I got to the supermarket and discovered that an uncooked whole chicken costs more than a store-rotisseried whole chicken.
the clunkers being removed were heavy polluters
and got replaced with trucks that were twice their size, resulting in zero net gain
but that’s also true of literally any other keyword out there. They wouldn’t particularly be driving any more traffic since that’s not what the user was searching for, they’d just be getting their whole site delisted.
they definitely have the resources to whitelist valid combinations, but some shirt ran the numbers and decided it wouldn’t bring enough money in
“nobody may disagree with me until they spend 2 hours doing the thing that I demanded they do first” is some proper Main Character syndrome posting
would play into persecution rhetoric for Trump.
The whole fucking point of him doing the persecution rhetoric is to stop people attacking him, and they’ve played right into his hands.
I had the temerity to finish my study abroad and return to my country shortly after I bought it, and it got a ‘blocked in your region’ even though it was a single-player game. Turns out there’s some Steam games that you only own for as long you stay in the country you bought them.
I understand that licensing issues exist that are country-based, the part I still can’t forgive is that the asshole in customer support lectured me like I was maliciously breaking their rules on multiple counts, first by being in the Wrong Country, and secondly by filing a support ticket to ask them to either fix it or give me my money back; he then hinted that I might be banned (subtext: lose several thousand dollars’ worth of my other games) if I pursued it any further.
So yeah, it does irk me when people get all fangirly about what noble defenders of the consumer Steam is.
some of the vox pop interviews I saw of randoms in the street were fucking insane. Old gammons saying with a straight face that Nigel is the only one who can “save this country”. They’ve really gotten themselves into a bubble of shit.
We’re almost certainly talking about literally everything a bot scraping catalogues decides it doesn’t have. I highly doubt it’ll be discriminating.