Inkjet: makes numbers in your bank account go down.

No, you definitely still have to match the meaning to the context. That’s pretty fundamental to communication.

Note how they are not mutually exclusive

Counteract is also valid.

This is a counteraction.

Why the downvotes?

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy…

I’m sad I’m not an attack helicopter…

😢

I ain’t reading all that. Classic nerd L

🚨 NERD ALERT🚨

Go define a vector space, nerd.

Go compute the p value of you being cool

Go integrate f(x)= 1/x on the domain (-1,1)

This is meme-ville population: me

Take a hike.

This abstraction doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. Of course you’re in charge of your computer, but just because you’re free to choose a certain option, doesn’t make it moral, or legal. Using a companys service and making a special effort to withhold payment then saying “it’s not theft, they’re totally cool with it” is absurd. Why would they be cool with that?

I imagine if it doesn’t make sense to you already, I won’t be able to help you understand, but here goes anyway.

A company pays a lot of money to have a service developed and hosted, then offers a paid teir, and an ad supported teir. If you neither pay, nor watch ads, yet still use the service, then the company is incurring fees due to your usage while receiving no revenue for providing the service.

Like, YouTube videos are great. Practically a utility at this point. However YouTube, the platform, is a company not a charity; if you cost them money, while providing $0 revenue, you’re stealing their money.

Personally I don’t think theft is justified outside extreme desparation (stealing food, basically), and given that YouTube gives you an option that does not require giving them money I find it hard to justify stealing bandwidth.

You’ve found quite the hornets nest, it seems.

I pay for premium because YouTube does video delivery better than anyone else in the world, and it’s not free for them to provide. Lots of things to hate about YouTube/Alphabet, but theft is a corrupt way of expressing discontentment.

Also, if I pay for premium, then content creators get paid, and I don’t have to shell out for merch to not feel like a terrible person.