Probably could have chosen different terminology but “grows” doesn’t necessarily mean more people became gay, it could just mean that more people openly identified that way.

We’ll see when it comes closer to that time. Historically I have voted for whoever I liked or just not voted at all. Maybe 50/50.

I won’t vote for Biden for a myriad of reasons but I’m sure as shit not voting for Trump either.

The entirety of our federal election is built on a false dichotomy and I won’t contribute to it.

I think you’re misreading the comment you replied to. It’s obviously sarcastic.

You’re not paying to see ads. They’re just subsidizing the cost of the service.

There are several "new YouTube"s. The problem is getting people to transition to them. And this is intended to do exactly that.

That’s the exact opposite of what most people want from an app like this.

I see a lot of people saying “but that’s how creators get paid”

And they’re not wrong. But they put themselves in this position when they uploaded their videos to servers owned by one of the worst corporations in the world, with massive privacy implications, and no alternatives.

I watch them on other platforms when they make it available.

Just disable the ads, crypto and telemetry and suddenly none of those things are a problem anymore, just like Firefox.

Sure we can but will we? No.

Twitter has only lost ~10% of it’s userbase after repeatedly abusing its own users. Reddit probably less. After everything we’ve learned about Meta, tens of millions of people signed up on day 1 to join their new service, Threads. Google Chrome still has like 80% market share.

Changing is honestly a trivial ask, but we won’t, because no one cares.

When T9 was all we had, we got real good at it.

No software updates mean they have to get it right the first time, which they always seemed to manage.

I’ve come to the realization that the phone I want is a Nokia 3310 “brick”.

• Infinite battery life
• compact size
• headphone jack
• indestructible
• no spyware
• no social media
• T9 texting
• no software updates
• Snake
• Brick Breaker

I pretty much just assume “Free To Play” games are full of microtransactions, is that wrong?

don’t speak ill of the dead don’t speak ill of the dead don’t speak ill of the dead

I get it but when 70% of users all use the same browser (or fork thereof) I can’t blame them.

Musk has already left millions of dollars in advertiser funds on the table in the name of “free speech”. He’s not going to comply.

While 30% is high it seems developers consider it acceptable since number of games Steam releases is not reducing.

Yeah that’s not how that works. Acceptable or not, if you want to sell your games, they have to be on Steam because that’s where people are buying them.

Epic only has a lower cut because they’re leveraging their undoubtedly massive Chinese investments to gain market share. You can rest assured they would charge 30% if they could.

I don’t like that Steam or Apple or Google charge 30%. I think it’s absurd. But also Valve is basically a saint compared to every modern corporation so I don’t think twice about it.

I tried to play this game yesterday. Guess what? Requires you to sign into a MS account to even start the game. I don’t wanna live on this planet anymore.

That’s not a Matrix feature, that’s a client feature.