Now that they don’t have to comply with onerous regulations, cable companies will be able to pass the savings on to their customers.

From the day we arrive on this planet, and, blinking, step into the sun…

It is way more work to provide value than it is to bribe the regulators to agree that you provided value.

I was just thinking that incompetence on this scale is likely deliberate.

Either some manager refused to pay for backups and they’re too highly placed to hold accountable, or they deliberately wanted to lose some data, but I refuse to believe anyone built this system without even considering off-site backups.

I don’t feel like you read the entire comment you replied to.

Yes, AI is a tool with horrifying implications. Machine learning has some interesting use cases, but if one had any hope that it would be implemented well, that should be dashed by the way it is run by the weirdest bros imaginable with complete contempt for the concept of consent.

Every couple years I decide to switch to Linux, spend few weeks trying to get everything to work right, then give up and go back to Windows.

I feel like I’m in a “Goldilocks zone” where I’m enough of a power user that doing what I want in Linux takes quite a bit of work to get set up, but not enough of a power user that I enjoy the technical challenge.

Most recently I was trying to play a couple modded video games, and run a headless HTPC. One thing would work on one distro, another would work on another, but I couldn’t get everything to work at once.

The problem is that they realized that they could do both.

I’m not really into that sort of fiction, but it’s not that weird a thought to have.

Biglari has been trying to take over Cracker Barrel for years. Not really hard to guess who was behind this.

Starting with “Hate to break it to you” is starting an argument with someone on your own side for no reason.

We used to have laws against media consolidation. Yes, the wealthy have always owned media, however, this is still new

You’re making a point slightly different than mine. It’s weird and unnecessary to act like I didn’t know that.

Why be a dick? You don’t need to break anything to me. If you don’t understand that the present media consolidation is indeed novel, perhaps you should study history. But nothing I said suggested things used to be good.

This is part of a complete rightwing takeover of media. They used fear of China to make sure that they control every platform.

It’s tough for American companies to understand this.

Sorry, nothing personal. I’ve seen images posted a lot. This is the first time I saw a website, but that’s even worse.

Strikes take a lot of planning and coordination. You need to be able to support your strikers so that they’ll be able to outlast Capital until your demands are met. One of the main purposes of unions is to save a “war chest” to do this.

If I and a bunch of my Internet buddies tried to strike, the first problem is that we’d each be the only striker at our workplaces…our bosses would just fire us and go on with their day.

Yeah, RaoulDuke is a thin skinned pussy, coming here and whining that he got banned from somewhere he doesn’t want to be. Oh no! Who cares?

This is a luxury opinion you get to hold when there aren’t communities organized around harassing and hassling you and everyone like you. Your idea has been tried again and again, and it always turns into a Nazi bar.

There is nothing more free than the ability to build a new community with rules you prefer. You have that freedom. You don’t have the freedom to show up in an existing community and insist they change to suit you better.

Its interesting how people are dogpiling this person in the name of “freedom of speech”…because they don’t like what he said?

There is nothing I care less about than the rules in some tiny forum I don’t plan on visiting. Brigading him because someone is in love with the term “bro” and can’t live without it is weirdo behavior.

Yes, and don’t forget the local politicians handing out tax incentives and sweetheart deals to data centers so we can all chip in together to help the tech bros delete our jobs.

Any asshole posting about a “general strike” with no support fund and no organization of their strikers is a fed.

Yeah…that’s why I said “aimbots”.