lol, actually laughing. Thanks for that!

When did Pimp my Ride start doing houses?

Gross

Strong example!

I’m curious if we would call this time period socialism or capitalism being held in check.

The era of high taxes on high income was definitely beneficial to more Americans than today’s low tax structure.

No, but do you have sriracha?

Please cite, with examples from reality, a better system.

Understood.

Please cite, with examples from reality, better systems.

Life experience.

No. I don’t pay for a service that has ads. That’s what I just said. If they add ads, I cancel.

Regarding capitalism, in reality, it is the best system we’ve seen so far.

Yes, theoretically other systems could be better for the general public. But in reality, they never have been.

But they haven’t added unskippable unavoidable ads yet.

When/if they do, that’ll tell a story.

I do it every time I update. It was pretty straightforward last time.

That’s said, I really hope this new app doesn’t change something or force me to download it to get the same functionality I have now.

Yes and yes. I don’t install this shit and just install drivers directly from nvidias website without logging in.

While I agree it is absurd, it absolutely happens. See the Las Vegas convention workers union. I was told that one worker could not plug-in an extension cord that had been previously plugged in because it wasn’t his job. There were numerous other instances exactly like that, while working a convention center floor.

It does happen.

I’d expend your tldr just a bit to include.

• users are stupid
• software is designed to work for both Tom Tecnowizard and Paul Pebkac
• finally, ads ruin everything they touch

In my opinion, where this “movement” failed was in the messaging.

“Stop Killing Games” is a great slogan written by a young person without much experience.

No company or government will pass a law that says, “you must indefinitely support every game you ever release”. Now, I understand that this isn’t what the group was calling for, but this is the message that comes across. Because of that, it immediately loses support from anyone in any type of software industry and likely many other industries as we know it isn’t realistic.

RIP Google Play Music. The best music service to ever exist.

I’ve gotten my last 2 jobs through LinkedIn. I know it doesn’t work well for some fields, but for tech it is great.

Exactly my thought. LinkedIn didn’t scrape their own data.

You may be overthinking this. For every virtuoso, musical genius, there exist people that do not like their music.

Some people love Michael Jackson, some people don’t. Same with the Beatles, Madonna, and Taylor Swift.

Musical taste is one of the most subjective topics that exist.

Unfortunately, it was originally seeded with people from the meta mod community in Reddit and so they brought all that with them.

Some discussions are awesome, but anything remotely controversial is a pure echo chamber and you’ll get shouted down if you dissent.