My state has open primaries and I vote in the Republican primary to fuck their shit up.
The way I read this graph is that the upper portion are people they want to oppress and the lower portion are people that they preserve is oppressing them.
I sort of get it. There are more boomers and even Gen-X people who are choosing to own a dumb phone just because of the sheer enshittification of the Internet.
I get it.
I think what makes enshittification is "give users less and charge more". It's about returning shareholder value instead of customer value.
Netflix is a great example. They have pulled back on content, made password sharing more challenging, and increased cost. They still report increases in paying users.
They've done the math. They know they can take lost in users because they know they'll make up for it. That's the sad part in all of this.
This is a great compromise honestly. More OSS devs need to be paid for their work and if an anime character helps do that, I'm all for it.
Two months is what DeBeirs, the assholes who hold a monopoly on diamonds, arbitrarily told people to spend on a diamond.
Ultimately it should be what makes both parties happy.
The line demands you cut costs but also increase service.
The line demands it go up. It doesn't care how you get there. In many cases, decreasing service while also cutting costs is the way to do it so long as line goes up.
See: enshittification
ELI5: Torrents require a way to send data and that's done through a port. Either you need to have a port available or someone else does. While you can upload without port forwarding, you're more likely to get higher connections if you have it turned on.
The biggest issue for people who are willing to use violence for political means is not knowing whether their actions would be supported by others. One of the things that the right has done better than the left is organization. Progressives don't have natural communities like a church.
It's why I keep stressing to people who want to resist to volunteer and get involved locally. Volunteer at a food bank. Get involved with the local immigration assistance group. Do something to get yourself known to those in vulnerable communities because that is where you'll find people who are supportive and where you'll find people who might even feel the same way as you.
One of the key characteristics of conservatives is being the person wearing the boot. When governments told people to wear masks, suddenly the law applied to them, which is why you saw such resistance from conservatives. It wasn't about health or even not being "sheeple" for them. It was, from their POV, the government oppressing them.
They have no problem will laws that apply to everyone else (e.g. abortion, welfare restrictions, etc.) because they don't see themselves as affected. But when laws begin to apply to them, suddenly it's oppression.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
I've started seeing more shit like this, even TVs in exam rooms with ads like this.
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Which is it?!
This headline came up in my news feed, from a very dubious source so I decided to investigate.
Headline after headline, many from identical sources, about how Walmart and Bank of America are either going to stop taking $1 bills or keep accepting them. The headlines read like a FUD article and I refuse to click through to read the details.
I can't find a reputable news source for this story so I'm assuming it's fake news.
It shouldn't be this easy to manipulate news feeds.
fmovies has been gone almost a month. I should have added "FBI" up there but really they used FBI to shoot down the service, not be like them.
I don't understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.
I started using sudo-lol and seems okay. Streaming can be hinky at times but it works for most of the things I want to watch.
I know that torrenting can be a thing but sometimes I just want to watch and not deal with a whole finding a torrent, download, and then watch workflow.
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