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Rule 2 seems to negate most of the defining characteristics of the MAGA movement, no?

*incredulous sputtering*

Give me a semi–plausible reason why these beans need to be unmixed into 15 separate piles and I will give it all of my focus.

Brave and contrary.

I want this, and although there isn’t always a perceptible difference in audio quality, there sometimes can be. It depends on the content, and I’d rather sometimes stream audio at an excessively high bitrate than always lose the high–end definition that I could have enjoyed where it exists.

All my life I’ve been getting into disagreements with people who believe that because they can’t tell the difference between A and B, I must not be able to either. I find this immensely frustrating.

I know how hard it is to resist the charms of an UwUing chatbot, but please don’t support another garbage telco.

Excellent comment. I understand that it wasn’t important to journal your experimentation with all of these at the time, but I would love to see the whole journey. Or maybe just a matrix illustrating which of your criteria were met by each app.

I really appreciate those edits, too. I can hear that thought process.

I have tried, and writing my last comment actually brought a lot of repressed rage out. I’ve been too lenient on my friends and family who continue to use things like Facebook and X, because I didn’t want to be that opinionated, ideological snore who won’t shut up about how Facebook is the world’s most prolific purveyor of hate speech, propping up the Trump administration, Israel, LGBT hate groups, the Rohingya genocide, housing discrimination, abortion witch hunts, blah blah blah. But the thing is that these are true things, and people should be appalled enough to never touch a Meta product again, even if it means teaching an elderly family member to learn a new group messaging app.

So I’m back to being a loudmouth bitch who scolds people for using Facebook. And X. But I probably don’t stand a chance with Google.

We wouldn’t need so many damn laws to prevent shitty companies from doing shitty things if we could just become the kind of society that doesn’t support shitty companies. The cookie thing is a great example of how a well–intentioned regulation made the internet an even more irritating place to be.

He also said the company is focused on improving the service itself.

Cool afterthought, bro. Something to look into once you’ve dialed in the right amount of “aggressive language”.

If it satisfies the payment processors to continue distributing these games so long as they’re not purchased with their service, I feel it should also be fine to list non–free pornographic games that can only be purchased with BTC or Monero.

Is tea drinking a big enough deal to have its own slang?

Was there even an article to go with this headline, or do we just publish any off–hand remarks made by rich tech dudes now?

Oh cool. I never got to go to emotional abuse camp at my school :(

That’s a heart breaking way to learn your lesson about backups. It must have taken a long time to accept.

Because I was complaining just last night about how I’m definitely gaining weight now, and no I won’t stand on the scale to confirm, but I can just tell from the way my clothes are fitting, and it’s “so unfair because I’m not even eating anything rich or carb heavy, and I exercise every day”. Then literally the next day I get up, eat chocolate, watch YouTube videos, do zero exercise, then fall back asleep.

I dunno. This seemed as good a time as any to get this off my chest.

I ate chocolate today and I’m feeling really guilty about it.

Sounds like this guy was someone’s nephew.

You’re getting stuck on my failure to read the summary because you thought this was an opportunity to make someone feel stupid online. The fact is that I did read it, and the article, however my brain disregarded the miniscule detail that we’re only talking about the friends part of Bumble because it has no influence on my overall takeaway. Stop being weird.