Yes. Every company is colluding to not advertise on your window. Which is the definition of antitrust.

I think they’re hated because they’re synonymous with broken group chats and low res photos. Hopefully EU forcing rss adoption fixes these instead of having to download an app to ‘fit in’.

They have similar alphabets, grammar and a lot of cognates. If you only spoke one you’d be able to recognize most of a sentence with these things, but sometimes words are totally different. They probably sound similar to someone unfamiliar with both, but they are quite distinct.

Never ask Google a question you wouldn’t also ask the feds!

If you ever have a scammer ask for a Google Play card send them this. It will waste their time. I did it once and it made them very angry.

I personally care because it means destroying the livelihoods of artists in exchange for shitty nonsensical bootlegs of art. Making it bad press is really the only recourse we have against this.

The analogy I have always used is that it’s like trying to cook in someone else’s kitchen and all of the things you need aren’t where you’d usually look.

I feel like the Internet Archive is current day’s library of Alexandria and it’s going to get burned down for nothing.

Copyright in the US is an absolute joke.

But if tuition was affordable, no one would join the army!

How to say whatever you want and not get in trouble:

1. Lie to the public to rile up your base
2. Conservative news reports on your lie
3. Wait until you’re in court to say ‘lol jk’
4. Conservative news conviently doesn’t find retracting your statement to be newsworthy
5. Your base still believes your lie

Glass Onion has aged so unbelievably well.

It’s the same thing with Elon/Twitter posts on Mastodon, it’s like half the content on there!