In both situations, it’s oppression. There is no other way to look at it. It’s no wonder why evangelicals are, by and large, conservatives that support Trump.

They wanted someone with experience, who can hit the ground running, but didn’t want to pay for it, either with cash or time.

• cheap
• quick
• experience

You can only pick two.

How does this work? I know that PR is an US territory but I imagine there are some quarantine procedures for animals.

Or has all of that been worked out already and you’re just the courier?

Edit: nevermind. My mind skipped past the explanation and went straight for the cute picture.

Volunteers are on both sides of the journey.

• the most felony convictions
• the most state and federal criminal investigations that are still open
• the most amount of diapers worn during a presidential term
• the first president in what 20 years to puss out and have his inauguration indoors
• the first president to have been a confirmed rapist

I’m going to speculate:

• the smallest penis
• the most obese
• the shortest

Tricking people to pay 100x its normal cost is pure unadulterated capitalism.

I exclusively use ZigBee. It automeshes.

Pft. Rookie numbers. I’ve been leaving work 1-4 hours early as meetings allow.

No. That’s the point of an open primary. You can vote in either party’s primarily.

I’m in a pretty red district. My primary vote is more powerful when voting Republican.

My state has open primaries and I vote in the Republican primary to fuck their shit up.

The way I read this graph is that the upper portion are people they want to oppress and the lower portion are people that they preserve is oppressing them.

I sort of get it. There are more boomers and even Gen-X people who are choosing to own a dumb phone just because of the sheer enshittification of the Internet.

I get it.

I think what makes enshittification is “give users less and charge more”. It’s about returning shareholder value instead of customer value.

Netflix is a great example. They have pulled back on content, made password sharing more challenging, and increased cost. They still report increases in paying users.

They’ve done the math. They know they can take lost in users because they know they’ll make up for it. That’s the sad part in all of this.

This is a great compromise honestly. More OSS devs need to be paid for their work and if an anime character helps do that, I’m all for it.

The line demands you cut costs but also increase service.

The line demands it go up. It doesn’t care how you get there. In many cases, decreasing service while also cutting costs is the way to do it so long as line goes up.

See: enshittification

ELI5: Torrents require a way to send data and that’s done through a port. Either you need to have a port available or someone else does. While you can upload without port forwarding, you’re more likely to get higher connections if you have it turned on.

There is absolutely a connection between how shitty corporations are treating their customers with how likely those customers are likely to stop paying and start sailing.

Netflix in its prime was the GOAT, showing a very significant decrease in piracy. We’re only seeing a rise now because of the proliferation of streaming companies. No one wants to pay for 4+ streaming services.

ISPs already do that here in the states. The court case is to decide whether they should shut off access.

I don’t think Lemmy would count as social media but that said, you can easily create a dummy account that just, for example, posts pictures of moths or beans or bread or whatever.

It’s almost like old school Google front page.