I just think we shouldn’t shield these evil people by pretending it’s “the business” doing it. It’s humans. Really really shitty humans, but they made the decision to do this to a kid, on camera, thinking it wouldn’t immediately backfire in this age of social media.

So not only are they assholes, but also fucking stupid.

They’re also just straight murdering entire sections of the population in plain sight of the rest of the world, but sure, the water thing too.

Nah. There was a meeting of actual humans who got together and decided to trick a child hoping no one would notice. Said meeting likely cost more than the said console did in salaries, too.

… Less traceable in that the price of the coin going up and them cashing out isn’t a direct line from the government coffers to their pocket.

I’m aware it’s a public ledger.

That’s exactly what the plan is. They’re funneling themselves government money, but in a way that’s less traceable

Why would anyone think this was a good idea?

Even hateful people aren’t looking to adorn gifts with messages of hate unrelated to the actual gift giving. So bizarre

My toddler had a respiratory issue several days before Christmas. Hospitalized for a few days. Released a few days before Christmas. We got home. Pipes froze that very day, for several days. So no water in the house. We were supposed to travel, but due to the hospital and weather were stuck home, so we had to scramble to get a few Xmas things together for the kids. Luckily midway through Xmas, the pipes finally thawed - Christmas miracle, we could shower.

The point is, there’s a lot of movies worth watching once, and never again…which is where streaming comes in.

That doesn’t fix it. No.

Sites like these are why amazon has been using more coupons at check out instead of straight discounts. Messes with the price tracking

What?

That is not a proper response to what I said.

Most of the stuff you see while scrolling through Amazon’s streaming service is actually just stuff you can buy but not stream. If it’s not one of their own big exclusives, the service is almost unusable

Most movies aren’t worth owning

The one thing their audience are experts in is what’s going on directly outside their window

Ghosts

AI is definitely already here. AI will be scraping anything public facing it can reach

Reddit went ban happy and nuked my 13 year old account over attempting to appeal a mod power tripping over an innocent comment they didn’t like.

Which was after the api think killed RiF

No, Twitter changed its algorithms leading up to the election. That was not self selection. They were actively pushing right wing bullshit down everyone’s throats because the owner spent $200 million trying to get the dipshit elected.

Which is no different from any of the US social media companies tweaking their algorithms against criticism of all number of political things.

Twitter blatantly forced right wing radical propaganda down their entire user bases through a for months. Facebook was selling user data to foreign influence groups to assist with political message targeting. They’re all the same.

So once again, Republicans lied