When we had real headphone jacks the phone lasted longer because you didn't use the same port for both audio and charging, wearing it out faster.

It's sad how many docile idiots remained on Reddit and Twitter after last year.

global warming

When WFH began, I stopped taking the subway into the city every day and instead spent a lot more time driving around the suburbs. My car's mileage and my ecological footprint went way up. You can't just make up a statement and have it be true.

It's literally starting its FIFTIETH season of political satire being a significant part of the show. Are you not smart enough to factor genre into what you watch? Do you think it makes you look like you have a reasonable thought process when you expect a show to suddenly diverge from its decades-long format?

Josh Hartnett word balloon

No. Valve tried to force arbitration, which is strongly anti-consumer. When an action was brought against them an actual arbitrator ruled that it was more fair to let a lawsuit happen. With this precedent set, there's no longer any point for Valve's terms of service to mention arbitration. This is not a consumer friendly move, this was Valve/"Gaben" trying to fuck consumers and losing.

Right, meaning that it's pointless and costly for them to have a terms of service that directs people to arbitration, hence this change to their terms of service.

https://www.404media.co/steam-removes-forced-arbitration-clause-gamers-can-now-sue-valve/

No, not really. Valve was sued and (ironically) the arbitrator decided against the validity of the forced arbitration and let the lawsuit happen. If they could still get away with forced arbitration, they wouldn't have made this change.

Hooray for criminals, who stimulate progress towards protection from criminals. Kings.

People complained when they tried to take the series in a direction of giving more context, depth, and worldbuilding to the aliens and engineers. So now they've gone back to just giving us yet another familiar movie from the same template of people running away from aliens, with same old tropes and callbacks.

She was the Attorney General of California when the backpage founder was arrested.

The California Department of Justice employs 5,000 people. Do you think they have only done this one thing? Do you think they have press conferences for every individual person they prosecute? Do you understand why a whole mainstream platform facilitating criminal behavior is worth more attention than an average criminal?

Probably right, but at least my watch history is all attached to a throwaway email address I use for it.

Didn't the vegan sub go rogue and start massing banning people for downvotes? I say disband the sub, but as a compromise, allow them to continue their vegan diets slash lifestyles.

It's largely the same because we started out with mostly enthusiasts doing it in semi hidden places. Then it was mainstreamed and became too easy for casuals to do out in the open. So laws and enforcement caught up and now it's most effective again if you know your way around, which most casuals won't if they can afford a few streaming services.

One big change is no longer having to burn any media, you download something then it's on plex and you can watch it instantly.

If I could bring anything back from the 90s it would be a big selection of games, movies, tv, music, and books that I actually care enough to consume. There's hardly anything worth downloading anymore.

Random unhinged mods spying on your votes to pre-ban you is pretty fucked up.

This server is fucked

They can fuck off if they think I'm buying anything with Amazon spyware built into it.