Kichae @ Kichae @kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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And that would preclude them being billionaires

Ubisoft accounts didn't disappear either. Until now, apparently.

I have never been a moderator, and your anecdote is not data. Your personal experience with a few people with toxic attitudes cannot be generalized, and the context of those experiences is vastly different from what's currently being observed and discussed.

I get that you're bitter that some stranger on the internet told you to stop doing something they didn't like, and had the power to make you, but that doesn't mean anything to anybody else.

This is also why many communities have failed to launch on migrating off of Twitter. They don't have a ready-made, prepped, and universally agreed upon landing site, and intersectionality of communities prevents them from actually finding one, so they're all individually faced with the prospect of leaving their online communities and starting over, or staying put.

I sit on the periphery of most of my interest groups. I'm a loosely bound valence member, and many of my interests are also just well represented here in the Fediverse, so setting up shop here just wasn't an issue. But for people who are more tightly bound, it's going to feel like there are overwhelming barriers to leaving.

The real question is whether they came with free ketchup or not.

Never mind. I just used the word "free" with respect to Trump. That definitely never happened.

When will my Steak have Trumps Face printed on it?

Like 15 years ago.

I get that the tin pot dictator narrative is popular wrt subreddit mods, but it really isn't a useful model for understanding people's behaviour.

Fear of change, denial of loss, and sunk cost are all much more powerful tools for understanding.

I know it's a movie. I'm not confused by the source.

I'm confused by the ending of the first movie and the number 2.

But he’s also operating at some of the highest levels of privilege, wealth, fame, and adoration. And that’s not enough for him…?

He's talking about the Academy Awards. You know, little gold statues for being famous enough at playing make believe to be noticed, and and good enough at it to be considered as one of the best of the well known.

If there's anything the rich, privileged actors can publicly whinge about, it's probably this.

Some things they don't care about -- e.g. Reddit, Twitter stuff -- and some things they just don't feel like they can affect. If they're buying a new car, and every single car in their region and in their price range is selling subscriptions, then they're going to feel like they have no choice.

Now, they do likely have choices -- they could buy a used car, or they could look outside their immediate region -- but those options may not address their pain points (maybe they really, really wanted a new car), or maybe they can't afford the time to travel, etc., but the fact that less convenient choices exist don't necessarily make people aware of them, or feel like they're real options.

When every company you interact with, and every transaction you make, is like this, it takes up all of your spoons for dealing with this stuff. It wears down your resistance, and makes it feel like it doesn't matter what you want, just what's being offered.

Oh, it sounds like that's not the issue. It's that they're using clips from the movie featuring the backpack in anoyher backpack company's commercials.

This isn't "you used our product without permission", but "you're using our product to directly market a competing product".

Huh. Gladiator 2.

How... How are they supposed to make that work? Is it going to be like the Final Fantasy games? Or is it more of a God of War type thing?

And one of the primary reasons they never had to make a profit was that, so long as interest rates were functionally zero, it didn't really cost the investor class much of anything to park money in a money losing operation while waiting for it to become sellable.

With interest rates back to pre-2008 levels, though, there's a price to money again. And a real opportunity cost. So, compete with bonds or watch your investors walk.

You're more than welcome to make a cogent argument for right-wing policies. Please, by all means, convince us that "fuck the poor", "fuck immigrants, but also fuck indigenous people", and a dictatorship of the wealthy is what's honestly best for people, communities, and the environment.

I've been waiting 25 years to hear the case for right-wing policy, but all anyone ever seems to say is "fuck you, I got mine", and there's nothing to say back to that other than "well, fuck off with yours and leave the rest of us alone, then".

Even if you're self-hosting, you still have to send your data to any instance hosting posts or comments you're interacting with, otherwise you'll be the only person to ever see your own posts and comments.

No other instance will be guaranteed to have a complete profile of you, though.

They're not using it for free, though. If I have a Netflix account with multiple profiles, I'm paying for that. I don't see why I don't get to determine who get to use those profiles.

Particularly after Netflix's own marketing department pushed out that "Love is sharing a password" tweet.

If they wanted to bump the price of multi-profile accounts, fine, but this accusing your customers of wrongdoing for doing something you yourself promoted is bullshit.

A leftist safe zone still exists, they have their own instance.

The leftist safe zone is and always was a lie, anyway. They're just fascists LARPing as a communist vanguard.

Read that as "solid waste turntable" somehow.

If you don't have sympathy for people because they lost their livelihood, and the reason for that loss isn't that they were themselves rotten people making other people's lives worse, then you're a rotten person.

Full stop. End of discussion. Kindly exit society, we don't need more people like you in it.

Bald-faced appeal to authority, okay.

You understand that the fallacy is the appeal to false authority, right? Not just any authority?

Swinging the partial names of logical fallacies around like a poorly wielded shield isn't actually an argument. It's just an attempt to poison the well.