It’s not confusing when you learn that it’s literally the most profitable tier for Netflix. They make more per user from ad-subsidized subscriptions than they do from the ad-free subs.

All they have to do is the dance of “how much can we charge for subs and how many ads can we show before people stop paying for this tier?”

Man who never earned anything a day in his life continues streak by not earning video game achievements.

Not all presidents, just… One.

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said a facility built on this farmland recently bought by Texas will be the final stop for processing migrants

Tells people to take a biology class.

Doesn’t know that “gonads” refer to the reproductive glands of both male and female organisms.

Trump exhibits zero-sum thinking- if someone else is getting something, that means he is losing something. Thus if Carter is getting respect, Trump thinks he is losing respect.

I don’t know, but if I had to guess like everything else it comes down to money. It’s energy intensive to desalinate seawater to the degree it’s drinkable, and now we’re talking about adding even more energy to refine it even further to make it suitable for human consumption. That makes any recovered salt expensive compared to natural salt deposits. Much easier (read: cheaper) to just scrape salt deposits that have already evaporated.

The problem with desalination is that there’s a super-concentrated salt sludge that needs to be discarded after the process. Dumping that back into the ocean creates excess salinity which fucks up the ecosystem in the immediate area.

Not saying that desalination isn’t a good idea, just that there’s more to think about than “put seawater in, get tap water out”.

Bluesky is still running on VC cash. We haven’t seen how they plan on monetizing it yet, but if anything that is where their major fuckup will happen.

Over 45,000 Afghan civilians died from 2001-2021, but that’s not a massacre, just collateral damage.

But that’s over twenty years, of course that’s not a massacre, plus they’re, you know, foreign. Now if 45,000 Americans died in one year, well, that would be different. Except they do, but because they lack insurance coverage. So, you know, that’s their fault for dying of preventable illnesses on account of being poor. That’s not a massacre, just good business.

And when Israel kills that many Palestinians in one year, college kids get arrested for protesting it while Congress jacks off while rubberstamping another $10 billion of arms sales to Bibi.

What do you mean “trying”?

Surely this means the party of law and order won’t support him, right?

Right?

…right?

The only way Trump whines about this for just six months is if he dies in six months.

The bad news in a good way. Yes, I can do that. The bad news in a good way. Well, here it goes…

Which is how you know he knows fuck-all about America, cause we’re kinda indifferent to both collateral casualties and gun violence being the number one cause of death for children.

If they think their editors should be ignoring all that, then what the fuck should they be doing?

Hey, they didn’t vote for the white woman either!

HE SAID HE WAS GONNA

This smells exactly like one of Trump’s “successful businessman from the 80’s” power plays- someone won’t do what you want willingly, so you publicly announce they’re going to do it anyway to shame them into it so they don’t lose face. It’s not the first time he’s done this and Gates is probably one of the last very public billionaires who hasn’t fellated Trump yet.

Don’t lie to us. We know better.

• Poster who believes the “progressive left” has had enough federal power to change anything in the last 40 years.

Since you missed it the first time, let me rephrase what I said:

If we’re all going to get the shit that Trump supporters deserve since they won the election, then I’m going to enjoy all the schadenfreude of watching them suffer getting exactly what the voted for. America is not great. Trump and Musk’s administration won’t make it great. But I’m going to enjoy their voters realizing that fact every day for the however it takes to get that fat orange fascist and his illegal-immigrant financier out of power.