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I don’t mind Spotify increasing.

Inflation is real. And nobody wants to see the service turn into a Little Caesars “$5 Hot N Ready” pizza that erodes in quality, rather than gradually price increase with inflation.

The advantage we have with music streamers is that nearly ALL the content is on ALL the services. So, if one service goes bananas with pricing, we can jump ship to a cheaper one.

But TV is siloed into mini monopolies. The only source of capitalism competition they face is use choosing to do without. And frankly, if I’m gonna be forced-fed ads, I choose to do it on YouTube which costs me $0 and not $7.99 a month.

Netflix is gone. And as someone who leaves The Simpsons running 24/7 on Disney+, I’m frankly getting thiiiiiiiiiis close to dumping their asses, too!

Or, as a market-based solution: TurboTax raised the price for small business returns to about the same as hiring and accountant. So, now I just hire an accountant.

I agree. There should be some sort of a la carte service where you can pay a couple of bucks and use it for like a day.

I know this is a piracy community, but honestly I don’t mind paying for newspapers.com. I use it a lot just to read up on old articles and stuff and they seem to be doing a pretty good job adding new newspapers to the archive all the time.

For me piracy is great when the product is just outright overpriced because some corporate tools in New York or Los Gatos are trying to make their VC people happy.

TIL you can cross between the border of Oklahoma and Colorado, technically…

That music video from the rooftop!

I guess you could say at least The World Trade Center went out with a bang!

^(I’ll show myself out now)^

A fool and his money are soon parted. From the same class of vehicles that tried to lock heated seats behind a monthly subscription.

You know what’s nice? Those cars can F right off. I won’t buy one new. And never will buy one used.

Always will be “budget” cars (Corolla, Civic, Versa, etc.) that won’t screw around with this crap because the buyers can’t afford to screw around with it.

TRY to paywall a heated seat in a Civic. I dare Honda. It won’t be more than 10 minutes before someone has it badly wired up like an aftermarket subwoofer.

I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.

The upside if we all use the term Google, is that over time Google will lose their ability to enforce their trademark.

Creators also need to make money. I doubt Peertube has ad revenue to split with them.

In fairness to YouTube, creators do keep about half the money (in exchange for YouTube hosting the content).

No ads and no user payment?

So… who pays to keep the servers going? Who pays to produce the content?

That stuff is expensive! We’re paying for it somehow.

what’s frustrating is that many of those websites are still there. but when I use Google to try to find them, they don’t show up in the results. not that they are buried on like page five of the results. they literally don’t show up anymore.

That actually sounds pretty good. Especially on a sausage pizza.

Road Guy Rob talks about how highway engineering works in a fun, highly animated way:

Here’s one about a bike lane disaster – where the city screwed up and undid it after a week:

https://youtu.be/zeynqnirofE

That’s fine. We make a new place.

That’s the beauty of the internet (and similarly, America). We just find a space to talk.

I realized today that maybe all I need is something to scroll and some comments to read.

Sunday, this place felt dead. But each day the traffic seems to pick up and I miss Reddit less and less.

In a few weeks, I won’t miss Reddit at all (at this pace)

But not for me. I’m forever gone.

And if there are enough power users (lots of comments, posts) like me who feel the same, it will have an impact.

There’s a HUGE middle ground between “nothing changes” and “reddit goes out of business.” As we see with Twitter, you can have a zombie platform that persists but slowly loses inertia month after month.

It’s not that Reddit dies abruptly. It’s that the platform is wounded now and, without attention, will bleed out slowly over many years.

It’s difficult to know how seriously to take this. Putin is the king of crappy posturing. Making constant threats to get the allies to act more slowly responding to him.

He also knows that we know that:

1. Much of Russia’s nuclear arsenal is inoperable due to neglect

2. He gets to light up ONE nuke, and then Russia is forever over. I wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of the world has a post-nuclear breakup plan for the country.

So, I’m confident that Putin won’t actually nuke anyone, as even he isn’t that stupid. Moving moldy Soviet equipment around makes great posturing and makes us fear him a little bit.