Be the change you want to see in the world and go post some better content, then.

I’ve never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist.

Eh, OP’s post seems more ‘mild annoyance’ than ‘blind rage’, but okay.

In the grand scheme of things, they don’t really care about piracy.

Yes, they could greatly reduce piracy by making their service affordable, available, and convenient … but they would lose more profits from doing that than they currently do from piracy. They know enshittifying their service will result in increased piracy … but they also know that it will result in extracting increased money from the people who do pay. And, overall, their profits are still higher despite the higher piracy levels.

(Heck, in some ways piracy has been shown to be overall beneficial. To some degree, it’s free advertising, helping media spread through word of mouth. And maybe while they missed out on a media sale or subscription, they still end up making money from that pirate with a merchandise sale or something.)

Hm… Come to think of it…

Fact #1: Microsoft claims their codebase is now 30% AI-generated.

Fact #2: US courts are in pretty unanimous agreement that AI generated material cannot be copyrighted.

So… What percentage of AI-generated code does Microslop need to reach before their software copyrights become unenforceable?

Never get high on your own supply. First rule of being a slop dealer.

I heard once that Microsoft employees are not allowed to use Teams to communicate on the job. Not sure why. Probably because it sucks or is terribly insecure.

You can be critical of something and still support it

If you support any state, you’re not an anarchist.

If you support a theo-fascist state, you’re not even close to an anarchist.

I don’t have to support the state of Iran to oppose the US and Israel.

Ah, yes. Any good anarchist should support the authoritarian theocratic state that’s being attacked!

That’s insane.

If you expect anything else from this regime, you haven’t been paying attention.

Republicans are weak-willed morons. There will be a few days of uncomfortable confusion, but they’ll be cheerleading this by next week.

After all, they never met a middle-eastern war they didn’t like.

• Killing lots of brown people.

• Unlimited money for their defense contractor buddies.

• Get to cosplay as patriotic for supporting the war effort and supporting the troops. (Words only for the troops, of course. Still cutting veteran’s healthcare budget.)

What’s not to like?

…while you still can.

The actions your words encourage within the west are the same that the most bloodthristy warhawks encourage.

I don’t think the bloodthirsty warhawks are encouraging the abolishment of all states, especially the ones that kill people. And, yes, especially the one I live in.

I’m not trying to ‘both sides’ this shit as much as I’m trying to ‘no sides’ this shit.

Also, don’t forget, the US attempts to cancel elections due to being in the middle of a war, despite extensive historical precedent of still holding elections during wartime.

Guys, guys. Chill.

Both of these countries are killing their own civilian population. But now one of them is also killing the other country’s population as well. Probably soon to be joined by the other doing the same in return.

Let me just be the anarchist in the room and say fuck both of these countries. Fuck every country. We shouldn’t have countries. And we especially shouldn’t have countries that kill people, no matter which side of an imaginary line they’re killing people on.

Why?

And then what? Deport all the Cubans?

I read this as minimum wage needing to be higher, not snow shoveling wages needing to be lower.

Anything is an infinitely higher percentage than zero. That’s how math works. Don’t know what you’re trying to get at with that.

And $30/hr doesn’t even seem all that high for a high-cost-of-living area like NY.