So what you’re saying is that the country collectively decided Trump was more promising than Harris?

What they’re saying is that the DNC keeps picking such terrible candidates that somehow come off as even less appealing than a child molester with dozens of felony convictions.

A sane person would look at this situation and be pissed that, for a second time, the DNC leadership forced someone so unpopular on us that it lead, also for a second time, to Donald Trump being elected president and that’s after another unpopular interim candidate just barely defeated him with margins so narrow that it took months of recounts before it was decided.

A sane person might notice the common denominator here and choose to go after the root of the issue, while others inexplicably choose to attack powerless voters for the entirely predictable situation we find ourselves in and are doomed to repeat their mistakes until the end of time having learned absolutely nothing from their countless failures.

How about instead of gross alcohol, he punches himself in the balls when he wants to drink? He’ll still get the Pavlovian response but without having to continue drinking.

I imagine it would probably rip them to pieces, but then again what kind of drag does a fly encounter in the air?

My thoughts exactly. That was such a viral ad campaign.

Along with seizing all your funds until they’ve “investigated.” Its not like this is on the banks, the government forces them to do this in the name of “stopping terrorism.”

10. They can’t just deport him to some random country. He has to agree to the location and if he doesn’t the government has something like 90 days to come to an agreement with him. The judge said there’s no chance of him agreeing to go to Liberia within the 90 day window which is why they had to release him.

Ive heard plenty of examples of elderly people getting conned into buying ITunes gift cards to pay their “delinquent taxes” but I find the thought of trying to explain the process of activating developer mode, navigating to some shady website, downloading an apk, finding the download folder, and then installing some bootleg app to a confused elderly person, over the phone on the very device they want you to do this on to be quite comical. I can’t see many of these people completing even step one of that process.

I’m sure there are malicious apps to sideload out there, but those are also all over the PlayStore too, so I don’t see what this change really fixes.

Of course they are. Warrantless surveillance is illegal for the government to do but its not illegal to buy surveillance data from private companies since users “agree” to let them collect and sell it.

What active scams? These scams should be pretty ubiquitous at this point if they’re doing all this to “stop” them, but I’ve never even heard of anyone having security issues from sideloaded apps.

In the sales world, this effect is called “price anchoring” and is used by tons of companies. All those sales you see where something is “marked down 50%!” are using a manufacturers price that does exist in real life to get that 50% markdown. In reality, the sale price is just the actual price of the item but people see the “huge discount” and think they’re getting a deal.

That’s not up to the streaming service but the record company.

That doesn’t really matter for the end user as they’re in a relationship with the streamer not the record companies. I hate this drive to obfuscate responsibility in corporate America.

I think you can integrate lidarr into SoulSeek too.

Didn’t the creator also dox a customer for criticizing them?

They also wrote in the law that the DOJ would have the authority to decide what gets released and what gets redacted.

Frequently the attitude towards equipment is that it can be sold once they’re done with it. Particularly specialized equipment might sit a little longer but that’s built in to the calculation.

As someone tangentially related to all this, I’m not so sure how accurate this is. The equipment we have isn’t ever sold until its completely deprecated and the space is needed for new tooling as a lot of this equipment takes years of planning, installation, and qualification before its ever allowed into production (along with strict service term contracts). The market is also relatively small and this would effect everyone equally, so I’m not sure how solid a plan like this would be. I imagine it would be similar to the housing market after the '08 crash where everyone is trying to unload dead weight at the same time which further devalues everything at a time when capital is desperately needed and sales have plunged off a cliff.

The whole plan is to make personal computing unaffordable so we have to rent cloud services to do anything.

That’s certainly a byproduct of what they’re doing but I’m not convinced thats the goal as the biggest PC buyers these days are businesses and I don’t see them jumping on board with that since it doesn’t benefit them at all. You could argue it would reduce their IT needs, but it won’t really as they’ll still need physical devices for everyone, networking gear, dedicated PCs for certain tasks/uses (like running equipment), not to mention having to store all IP on third party hardware.

For consumers, I think most people have enough computing power with their phones as it is and most of the rest can be handled by some 10 year old thin office client. Outside of higher prices across the board, this will really hurt gamers and PC enthusiasts the hardest which is probably quite a niche market.

A response in the same vein as the classic “I’m just asking questions” to a comment in the same vein as those who claim people suing the government and police after civil rights abuses are “just looking for a payday.”

Nah, I refuse to normalize the rhetoric of the treasonous Nazis leading the country.

Corporate life in a nutshell. Remember this every time some smooth brain defends corporations or “the private sector” for “being efficient and cutting red tape”