The fuck is XDefiant…
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The fuck is XDefiant…
Yes yes, studies show this, studies show that. And they all contradict each other, especially if you just wait a few years for things to come full circle.
It’s gotten to a point where I just don’t believe them any more.
Maybe coffee does in some circumstances with some people have a link to preventing diseases. Or maybe not.
We’ve seen, and will continue to see, well researched scientific studies that argue both sides of this, until the end of history.
Believe whatever makes you feel better, that’s all you can do, really.
I like you.
Let’s go somewhere, fall, and forget to hit the ground together.
2019 isn’t some ancient far away time though, it’s just a few years ago. If Facebook were doing stuff like this then, think who else is still doing it.
Seeing as I live here, I’ll take the root beer.
Especially if it’s that Australian stuff with the sasparilla in it, Bundaberg, that stuff is AMAZING!
Those bastar… Wait what?
You can make any graph look bad if you control the axis bounds weirdly like this.
Not that I have good things to say about ubisoft, but at a glance one would assume their stock value plummeted to zero, which is not the case.
That’s pretty dang cool, and 12 is my favourite number too :-)
What’s your favourite number?
So basically “Don’t pay a fee to use a product or service”.
I imagine this guy advocates for sneaking onto trains without paying the fare too, and shoplifting, etc. right?
Does he think products and services are magically free just because they’re provided through a computer rather than over a counter, and that business shouldn’t be allowed to charge money for them?
I get that this guy would rather go back to an internet where ad sales can pay for everything, but that’s just not viable for a lot of people now. Heck, many online services today didn’t even exist the way they do now 20 years ago, such as Netflix, and wouldn’t ever have been viable funded by ad sales alone.
Should we just stop innovating and growing as a society, stop offering new goods and services because they’re not viable in an ad sales only marketplace?
Plus, I bet this guy uses an ad blocker too, as most people that talk like this do. If he’s actively fighting the very financial foundation he’s advocating that we should go back to, what’s his end game? How does he see this actually working?
What’s his plan for how we’re should fund all these global businesses and products and so on? Can’t charge money, can’t passively fund free at point of use services using ad and anonymous marketing data… are businesses just supposed to print their own money?
Look, I don’t love how expensive a lot of these products and services are, I totally get why people pirate stuff, and I don’t like how the world wide web itself is becoming more of a small selection of walled garden services vs the millions of cool web pages and forums and such it used to be. That’s a deeper problem outside of this scope granted, but I think this guy longs for those days a little too, and that’s part of why he’s rebelling against modern online businesses.
I’m not saying every company handles charging for their products well, or that they’re affordable (but what is these days), look at Adobe for example. Or look at Unity’s recent crazy ideas.
I’m just saying that simply advocating for a boycott of businesses for having the audacity to charge money for a service that costs money to provide is, well, shortsighted to say the least.
These aren’t local government services paid for and provided free at point of use by our tax pounds like healthcare or the fire brigade, these are businesses - often global - that need to make money to survive (and yes I know a lot of them funnel too much of those profits to those who don’t deserve it rather than their staff, but that’s a whole other problem).
Yes, I long for a post scarcity, money free, star trek style society where everybody works for free just because they’re passionate about what they do and want to create and share cool things, without actually needing to work to survive or thrive. I would LOVE that. But that civilisation doesn’t exist for us yet, and we can’t expect one portion of it - the Internet - to become that all on its own in a vacuum.
Can I buy these as a coffee table book?
Not all the comics this artist has ever made, but just these word ones specifically, a neat little pocket anthology kinda thing.
Pleeaasseee
If it’s added as already opted in, I assume they pop something up to make it clear what’s been added and enabled, and how it affects the user’s privacy, with a link to the settings to change it if desired?
If so, that’s not too bad, no.
If they added it and didn’t make it clear, or worse yet didn’t call attention to it at all, that would piss me off.
Skull and bones emoticons are associated with laughter now? Huh? O.o
It reads to me like they’re very embarrassed for their friend upon finding out they work at that company, a bit like I’d feel bad for a friend that has to work for Jeff Bezos or McDonalds or such.
My god, their planet is exactly like ours but they have labour laws! Quick Daniel, dial the gate! sprays P90
Middle class people worth 800 grand these days, and earn over 60 grand where you live? Damn.
Upper middle class maybe, sure, but middle class mostly doesn’t exist any more, mostly it’s people scraping by on a mortgage trying to act like they’re still middle class :-(
What’s this got to do with Twix? I love a good Twix…
Fuck me, now I gotta go buy a Twix. And a Lion, do they still make those? God they were the best.
Haha I was gonna suggest it too, it’s been a lot of fun! Helps get me walking and the community are nice :-)
Fake bullshit.
Climate change is real and serious, fake nonsense like this just serves to undermine real information about the ongoing disaster that is climate change.
Ok, but who’s the scientist bloke and what’s he claiming?
Earth is flat? Aliens walk among us? Billionaires are lizards?
Why would I remove it? It’s encrypted and only readable in the phone itself, the only reason to remove it is to upgrade or moving to a new phone where it’ll be wiped and start from scratch.
You leave Newbie outta this, he’s a beloved Doctor!