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Raised devout Mormon/LDS. 9/11 reaffirmed political conservativism. Church assigned me to be a missionary (age 19-21) in Portland, Oregon where I found liberals treated me with better respect than conservative christinans.

In 2006, my house rep said something royally stupid, so I voted for his Democratic rival. And like Pringles, once you pop you can't stop.

Today I'm a fiery but loyal moderate democrat.

I agree. There should be some sort of a la carte service where you can pay a couple of bucks and use it for like a day.

Correct. The tie is designed to cover the buttons of the shirt.

The guy is straight up insane. He's obsessed with the letter X.

But I don't care. X is the symbol of death eyes on a smiley. Guess the bird is dead.

I know this is a piracy community, but honestly I don't mind paying for newspapers.com. I use it a lot just to read up on old articles and stuff and they seem to be doing a pretty good job adding new newspapers to the archive all the time.

For me piracy is great when the product is just outright overpriced because some corporate tools in New York or Los Gatos are trying to make their VC people happy.

Doesn't it literally mean "whore-son" (huren-sohn)?

My German is poor.

But.....

A more expensive product becomes a more price-sensitive product. Now one customer represents income from 3-4 customers.

Recession hits. People are more likely to cancel something that is $25/mo than $8/mo. And each cancellation is like three cancellations.

Going "premium" is a valid strategy. But since we haven't had a serious recession in 15 years, I believe it's a shortsighted one.

Long run, they are corporate morons.

T-Mobile was "paying" for a rarely-used account on my family plan. Parents used it in another state. I occasionally used it. My brother logged in once in awhile. On any given week, it might see like 4 hours of collective viewership.

Turns out TMobile's contribution only covered the first $8. I have been paying another $10/mo. out of my own pocket and wasn't batting an eye.

Netflix was getting $18 a month for doing almost nothing! And that could have continued for many more years without my even questioning it.

BUT... One day I couldn't sign onto my own Netflix account that I pay for. Evidently, I'm not in my own household? That led to my discovery of the gargantuan amount I was paying for a service I barely use anymore.

So now, thanks to their greed, Netflix gets $0 from me. And not a single family member has phoned to ask why Netflix no longer works.

Some executives in Los Gatos may soon learn Econ 101's supply-and-demand curve.

TIL you can cross between the border of Oklahoma and Colorado, technically...

That music video from the rooftop!

I guess you could say at least The World Trade Center went out with a bang!

^{(I'll show myself out now)}

A fool and his money are soon parted. From the same class of vehicles that tried to lock heated seats behind a monthly subscription.

You know what's nice? Those cars can F right off. I won't buy one new. And never will buy one used.

Always will be "budget" cars (Corolla, Civic, Versa, etc.) that won't screw around with this crap because the buyers can't afford to screw around with it.

TRY to paywall a heated seat in a Civic. I dare Honda. It won't be more than 10 minutes before someone has it badly wired up like an aftermarket subwoofer.

No kidding.

I'm feeling eerily nostalgic for the (objectively terrible) Bush-era doctrine: "You're either with us, or we'll declare your nation a state-sponsor of terrorism"

Your flaw is assuming that a couple only produces one child. Many humans can share the same ancestor.

Former RiFfer here on Connect.

Gives me similar vibes.

It's a clear EEE attack. Do not federate!

Elon Musk does fascist things.

But that doesn't mean every bad thing Elon Musk does is fascist. Sometimes it's just greedy. Or stupid.

I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.

Don't forget the "Jesus fish" on their logo.

I'm from out west, so it was a very foreign concept for me when I visited my sister in Arkansas and saw a lot of "Christian Family Auto" type places with Jesus swag trying to win over business.

The upside if we all use the term Google, is that over time Google will lose their ability to enforce their trademark.

But the good news is, tech is a highly disruptable industry. Barrier to entry is accessible for regular people.

And that's why we're here.

Reddit doesn't die because we left. They die in a few years when the Fediverse just works better than Reddit. And we fund that.

Speaking of, how do I kick in a few bucks to help out various Lemmy servers? Anyone know?