Heavily subsidized by misery, as well.
Detroit pays union wages and has to respect worker rights (at the top end of the supply chain). The “communist “ state seems to escape these limited obligations in big parts of their supply chains.
Good luck, have fun, get Altman first.
Calls someone a turd
Stinks up the place
What a fine example you set
Oh yeah, that is a cool remote. My observation about the awkwardness of a laptop in the living room is more about furniture and the layout of most media rooms. A second screen or a place for the laptop usually isn’t quite right, or downright bothersome. Even a desktop can be a problem.
My media server is hiding in the tv stand because it is NUC sized, an old mac mini. It could directly play to the tv, but for various reasons I wind up with apple castoffs, so an apple tv running Infuse is the front end. If I didn’t have that gear I would be running a modified android player.
I wind up in a lot of living rooms mucking around in their media systems and the furniture aspect matters to a lot of people. Also convenience is paramount, they want a media appliance in front of the couch, computers are for desks.
I know my family is grateful that I no longer force them to mess with a computer to watch something. Inconvenient and frustrating.
This is awkward in most living rooms and the remote control sucks. Source: my house, and my job.
Less awkward, ironically, when using airplay to an appletv.
Oh, you don’t use the dressing room?
Well you are right, at our local pool you leave shoes at the racks before walking barefoot down the hallway to the dressing rooms, but when leaving the pool I still go sock-shoe because that is a public outdoor shoe mat.
Similar principles to food-safe cross-contamination prevention.
If the floor is wet like at the pool, it’s sock shoe sock shoe.
Any other time it’s sock sock shoe shoe, because I am not tracking the outside world into my house or bedroom, and the shoes are at the front door.
It really is a matter of degree, though. Even fancy perfume has horse piss in it. It doesn’t mean you might as well wallow in the pigpen.
No maybe Mullvad can’t control the flow of that money into dangerous hands. But the customers can, if they organize.
This is the core running gag of a lot of the tv series The Good Place.
The answer, of course, is just keep trying.
Critical thinking is based on treating problems as opportunities to improve. Endlessly.
Yes, absolutely! I have an ever shrinking list of suppliers for my business and the household.
It’s not an on/off situation.
The point of any such action dealing with complex consequences is simply a statistical approach. Deny custom with the oligarchs whenever you can, and it adds up in aggregate.
Buy local, barter, buy from vetted independent companies, use boycott apps, keep a shitlist and consult a company family tree if you are wondering about a product.
Smaller scale family farms are less likely to poison themselves, they live close to the fields; buy direct from them when you can. Farmer’s markets. It’s less convenient. It’s culturally richer.
There are hidden costs in cheaper products. It’s not as big a sacrifice as it seems to avoid oligarchs whenever you see them.
For a while, it was believed to interfere with LLM scrapers and poison the training. I don’t see it much lately. Seems like it would be trivial to parse and convert.
Ah, you are right, cranky is inaccurate. Corrected.
I upvote many of your comments, but you are in fact often cranky touchy with people on here. This here is kind of a thin skinned comment you are making. No one has their fingers up your butt.
edited for accuracy
One thing I kind of hate is the abuse of the voting system, I kind of miss slashdot for its enforcement of a justified moderation for voting on a comment.
So it’s annoying, but sometimes I just go around counteracting user-targeted revenge downvotes, even if I don’t totally agree with the comment. It feels like being the janitor.
It’s kind of obvious that you are being vote brigaded, some deeply immature emotional framework is stalking you.
This is what tagging is for! There’s hope for some people even if they make dumbfuck comments and think votes are popularity affirmation.
Dude was being a toddler in an adult discussion and got called out for it because it’s just as annoying as it would be in meatspace… some people have trouble understanding basics like that so we try to help.
Oh yes, and even plum union jobs for floor workers in Windsor or Brampton can be kind of shit too, especially in some of the parts factories.
I expect that from hypercapitalist oligarch-run societies. I don’t expect it from vanguard countries. It’s a betrayal.