Mandatory licensing or fuck off.
This landscape of pointless silos is not competition.
People want shows. Every streaming service is an obstacle. Each one exists purely because some asshole wants a 30% cut, off the top, instead of just making the thing and selling it to people.
On a technical level, launching in black and white would not be less silly.
How is this site’s volume control a yes-or-no question?
The best part was changing the error message to “something went wrong, try again later,” just to lie to people and waste their time.
There’s no such thing as “public except for that guy in particular.”
If any logged-out rando can see a thing, preventing a specific logged-in user from seeing it doesn’t work and shouldn’t be tried. It’s ridiculous. And it’s a great incentive for assholes to just make a new account.
The worst way to do it is how reddit handled it, where any asshole can have the last word, for free. You can’t reply to anyone if someone in the thread blocks you. You can’t even reply to your own comments in the chain, to notify people, ‘hey, some asshole blocked me, I’m not just ignoring you or the argument.’
Contrast with Futurama, which got like five separate definitive endings (so far!), and nailed at least two of them.
Jesus, why bother. Just do a photo-op with a burlap sack labeled “$.”
In civilized countries that’s called dumping, and it’s a crime.
I mean, there’s precedent.
It’s a real short answer you’re not allowed to say.
Made even funnier by terms like “street furniture,” which includes the bench, the bus stop, the stop sign, and the curb.
If you called this gluhwein, any German would backhand you.
There is no more quiet part.
An incentive structure telling all of them to do likewise.
Neural networks are proof that we suck at defining things, but our labels are excellent.
Silent Hill’s primary reference material was Kindergarten Cop.
“You are invited slash warned!”
Stallman was right.
If these assholes retain the power to do this - their cooperation was meaningless.