The real problem was third party clients I swear

You’ll be sued and fined, not blacklisted lol. Though, the shit on your background check might blacklist you effectively

? I think this is a good thing lol. I am happy women are being protected. I have a sister and a mother and a misogynistic father. We don’t talk to him.

I can’t help but imagine the outrage

Literally only you can prevent that. This is something that affects 50% of the population universally. For some reason you can’t comprehend this being an exception to the rule. Only you can be that change, no one can do that for you. I hope you are able to stop imagining fake outrage one day. It will be a long journey, should you wish to achieve it, but I believe in you.

you gladly feed them your viewing habits to increase their value to their shareholders though 🤷

you aren’t hurting their bottom line by not watching ads. You’re just making a tiny dent into a single line of thousands on some slides on the evp of youtube’s quarterly presentation. No one else notices.

Your data and viewing habits and patterns and all of the device info you leak and broadcast? The wifi signals your phone is always seeing? Oh that bluetooth device that just rode past your apartment while your blocking ads on youtube? Definitely not being seen by them. Apps are spyware these days, and they are spying on everything

No one with actualy authority cares who anyone blames. They only care for the desired effects: Elections cancelled. Who fucking cares about opinions? Blame trump all you want for elections cancelled. He doesn’t care. He gets what he wanted and you didn’t. That’s the goal. If the cost of that is all of us blaming trump, their calculus is: that’s the cost of doing business.

Get off of Github and I bet you those drop to nearly zero. Using Github is a choice with all of the AI slop it enables. They aren’t getting rid of it any time soon. The want agents and people making shitty code PRs—that’s money sent Microsoft’s way in their minds.

Now that they see what the cost of using Github is maybe Godot will (re?)consider codeberg or a self-hosted forgejo instance that they control.

this will kill yt-dlp if it succeeds

It sure is different, but the people in charge dont know or care to know

Because thats how they’re getting away with it? Who cares if it’s true or not, no one who can do anything about it cares. Tell your reps to start caring about monopolies.

You may say that Steam is just an app—don’t tell me, tell your representatives

Tell your representatives, not me. According to our representatives, what Apple has is not a monopoly. You don’t have to convince me, you have to convince them. If you truly care about this issue, vote accordingly.

What exactly does Apple think that they’re brining to the equation in order to deserve that 30?

Because Valve can and Tim wants his yachts. No one is gonna stop em either. The App Store and Steam are the same thing: Store fronts that sell other peoples goods. You may say that Steam is just an app—don’t tell me, tell your representatives

no disagreement from me there 🫡

general strike happened because of the visibility of those protests. The world socialist web site was at the columbus no kings protest handing out fliers and a booth, and i’m sure there were communists around

protests give people permission and reduce the social anxiety to speak out when they see the numbers in them. Its a lot easier to speak up at your workplace about events when theres a massive protest walking past your place of business

protests can beget direct action and shouldn’t be criticized when they do. 50501 has been coordinating ice watches and observations that put all the cameras there when violence occurs. I know people want to open carry at these protests ever since Pretti was killed. If everyone is concealed carrying it feels like a 1v30. If everyone is open carrying it may look like a 50v30

Protestors targeted Bonvino over signal and found his hotel two days ago. he gets booted out of the city yesterday, and the fbi is doing signal chat investigations. I think Bonvino got scared or Trump is amping up, I dont think Trump sees anything bad about Bonvino.

it isn’t illegal to download, only upload. Torrents get you in trouble because of seeding, not downloading

bandwidth should be nationalized or otherwise a municipal public utility so people can compete easier tbh. We do this with roads, water, electricity, etc. Get libertarians on board with data privacy insurances at the federal level so big brother cant spy on public bandwidth. Massie and Rand Paul could buck for that

whistles are why that guy has all the footage necessary to make his death mean something

You arent seeing me complain, but I am not putting down anyone for wanting to see different. It’s complicated, like you said. You cant afford to be afraid of violence right now, or if you are, be prepared to get out of the way

What should have happened to nazi Germany, if not fight them with violence? The nazis invaded, remember. Do you not believe in self defense against an invading and occupying force? Nazis are invading your city right now, when will they be occupying your state next?