Is American supposed to mean anything when the Republicans are indoctrinated into Russian disinformation and salivating over a Putin 2.0?
American might as well mean Russian shill, and is being a woman supposed to mean anything? What does you gender have to do with your political affiliations.
Yeah it is strange. I have bought mp3s on Amazon and downloaded the DRM free mp3 to listen to on my preferred player of choice. But, why is the stance on books different?
Yeah they won at capitalism. But it’s so crazy that because of stock price expectations even they won’t ever come to the finish line. It’s never good enough no matter how much they make. The ceiling just keeps going up and up and up.
I might have more faith in them if they weren’t a publicly traded company always having the expectation of exponential growth.
When has a company ever shown itself to show restraint once it heads down the monetization train? And isn’t Apple’s premium price point that it isn’t ad infested like Android or Microsoft?
Turns out it really is archiving when government decides to go renegade and start deleting everything they disagree with or wipe from history. Archive away beautiful data horders.
Seems like they are getting close and closer to admitting to the love affair they have with Russia and getting married.
US is not an ally of the west.
That was a fun educational watch seeing the thought process that goes into trying to figure how to interpret the data to make an extension.
Yeah that’s the thing that stands out so much. That almost everything mainstream is either US or China. Come on rest of the world step up.
They try to sell this image of being open platform suing Apple and Android, but then refuse to actually properly support something like Linux. And then remain quiet about cuts when it comes to Xbox and Playstation.
Epic made headlines when Metro Exodus that was set for a steam launch and even had physical copies with the steam logo, abruptly decided to pull their launch after entering into a deal with Epic.
https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/aqyjac/physical_copy_of_metro_exodus_for_pc_has_a/
Then came the contracts to not release on Steam. And from the DARQ dev turned out that also included GOG too.
I was contacted by the Epic Store, proposing that I enter into an exclusivity agreement with them instead of releasing DARQ on Steam. They made it clear that releasing DARQ non-exclusively is not an option. I rejected their offer before we had a chance to talk about money.
Free games are nice, but that doesn’t guarantee affection when it comes to paying customers. It wasn’t like this was some small indie company but another billion dollar company trying to pull a Walmart, so some people just weren’t won over by the free games into being happy with the exclusivity deals. Those people weren’t happy having choice forced away.
I still haven’t spent money on epic but I do claim the free games. Yet I will probably never spend money there even though I’ve spent money at GOG, uplay, bnet, and origin because the first impression and approach they took rubbed me the wrong way. So even people who don’t only buy from steam were turned off with the strategy they took.
Now some people don’t care and will buy from there, so this just the point of view of people who dislike Epic.
I don’t plan to vandalize private property. Pointing out what is the intended effect.
And regardless of political ideology what is happening to Tesla or any other brand receiving the same vitrol deters me from plans to buy them. Basically it’s radioactive to “we don’t like to talk about politics” crowd. Which is the average buyer.
Future sales is what increases stock. Including perceived future sales. Big example now is BYD and how stock has risen in anticipation of countries not being able to keep them out forever while ramping up production alongside improved battery tech.
There’s a big reason why most companies are incredibly protective of their brand image and traditionally have CEOs keep as much of a blank slate as possible. Most companies pivot towards being faceless with a replaceable CEO as opposed making the CEO their mascot for this reason. It can lead to a huge target on them if things go sour.
I do not understand how damaging my car is supposed to help your cause.
The fear you have for your car purchase is the point.
It’s not about changing ideologies or convincing people to change their politics or protecting owners who feel they are on the right side and should be spared.
It’s about having future buyers have to weigh whether the risk of vandalism, negative affiliations assumed of them, and insurance increases is worth buying the brand.
Unfortunate, but actions that result in indiscriminate collateral damage is what tends to actually have the intended impact. Which in this case seems to be to taint the Tesla brand as a risky one.
There was a time they played without helmets and
Between 1965 and 1969, more than 100 players at all levels died of brain injuries, an average of about 20 per year—about the same number as died in 1905, but from brain injuries alone.
So it’s just a stupid sport to begin with whether there is padding or not due to the whole bashing into each other from opposite ends every single play.
Yep lot of sports streams I’ve seen straight up don’t have commercials and goes to dead air during breaks, since they aren’t streaming regular broadcast channels.
Really nice ones switch to stadium cameras during breaks so showing what’s going on with the crowd and arena.
Finding active community is bad with how you might get multiple results that don’t have much activity giving impression it is dead for niche communities.
Might help if there was some collaboration between those type of communities redirecting to the “main” community to find activity.
They may not be politicians but they spend money to get themselves into positions of political power as these few days have shown with Musk. And these people get most of their power from the masses that are dumb enough and bigoted enough to be swayed by a shared common hatred of groups to scapegoat for everything.
Most people in crypto are drawn to it the same way people are to gambling apps. Politics means shit and it’s just full of people chasing after get rich quick scheme and fixating the price and trying to convince people to keep buying so they can offload their bag. Who the hell plays up crypto like it’s some liberal stance when it’s been mainstream for years.