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As creator that makes some of their profits from affiliate links, I don’t see how that could be the case for him.

Seems more likely they had a reason to avoid beef with PayPal.

I dislike this saying because it’s always been assumed, never proven, that intelligence follows a normal distribution. That is if it can even be mapped to a single, consistent, comparable number.

But your point is valid. Though I’d add that it’s not universally true. Fascists thrive on fear and ignorance. Give people access to a good education, which includes political education, and they are far more resilient to these tactics.

Which is why it’s especially nefarious that conservatives love to undermine, vilify, and defund education.

There are people in politics that believe in representative democracy and seek to influence the system for the better.

They either stay local, are ground up by the system, or become corrupted by money and power.

They have carrots and sticks for anyone, especially idealists.

The issue is proving that it ingested the original copyrighted work, and not some hypothetical public copyleft essay.

I just run ADB.

“this may increase costs for the consumer” argument is flawed. It always implies they would have left profit on the table otherwise, rather than squeeze the system and everyone within it for as much as it’ll give and then some.

I was purely commenting on Apple silicon. As an owner of an M4 MBP I should add. The best chip in the world can still suck as a product if it’s held hostage in this fashion. 800 bucks is what Apple charges for 1.5TB added storage.

Hell yeah 800 bucks for a basic-ass storage option

Yeah it’s survivorship bias. We remember the high-profile cases when things like this blow up, but the odds for that are pretty slim.

People commenting however…

I was hoping a horse was involved.

… Did anyone really think 2D pixel art is rendered in real-time from individually animated 3D 9bjects?

That sentence could just as easily mean “I’ve never played it, but it looks like a really bad game”.

You don’t get to become a billionaire, let alone the wealthiest person on earth, without being a greedy fuck. Remember he never actually wanted to buy Twitter, only tried hard to spin the narrative after being sued into it.

“Banning” means making illegal in some fashion. That is very different from breaking phones.

He’d love to also milk it financially, but that’s actually really hard to do with Twitter.

You could say though as a capitalist he also gets a return on investment by manipulating public opinion in favour of conservatism.

Maybe they just never bothered to try.

Also while the platforms are similar, the users and thus the content are not just a smaller version of Twitter.

There is no mention of anyone breaking phones. Where the hell is this claim coming from?

Just like Angela Merkel’s upset remark “you don’t spy on your friends”.

Well yes, dear Angela, they spy on everyone. And it’s telling that the outrage came only because she was personally affected. The peasants’ data and personal lives are fair game.