Well, they did kill hangouts. They never said they were going to kill it and also leave their users without an easy migration path. If anything this is better. They reduced redundant apps. Hangouts did somethings better though

Messages is sms, MMS, RCS. I’m not sure what chat uses, but it’s a data protocol not tied to the cell network

They migrated hangouts to chat and opened chat up to unpaid users

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That’s just what people say when they don’t like paying for things

I don’t see anything about companies getting canceled, shut down, or otherwise

No one said you need to trust their reporting.

Seriously. When did everyone get so stupid? They obviously aren’t saying ads are free speech

There is no such thing as being cancelled. Do you think the cancelled police show up at usa today to shut them down for using whitelist?

They’re arguing that the press is important to maintaining and exercising free speech. If they go out of business because they don’t make ad money, bad for free speech. Not saying they are right, but I think everyone here is missing what they are really saying.

For a while it did disappear. It only recently popped up on Amazon

Don’t the content creators choose where to place ads?

It’s almost like it was settled by Europeans

No, and the map doesn’t show that either

I don’t want to get into an argument about why an enormous border wall covering our entire southern border that mexico pays for won’t fix our illegal entry problem.

As to why they built new wall? I have no idea. Maybe Biden realized he was wrong and some wall in some places helps. Maybe there was some bureaucratic reason it got built without him knowing or approving. Edit: read the article again, second reason doesn’t seem likely

If you want to see democrats losing their minds over this, you won’t. Most people ignore these things from their own side. Others see it but will give him a pass because this likely isn’t an overall shift in strategy towards a giant wall project

According to Democrats, border wall construction is a terrible solution to the problem. Maybe in limited circumstances? Can’t say if this is good or not, but my gut says it’s pointless, just like Trump’s wall.

For some things, yes. The straw thing, no. If we snapped our fingers and made straws disappear, the effect on the world will be negligible.

The headline is definitely click bait. Makes it sound like she’s a worker drone walking the floor at your local Costco. She took a corporate office job. The problems with teacher wages and hours are very real, but she also doesn’t get summers off anymore. Not sure if she accounted for that in her 50% pay bump either.

Guys. This is literally just a price increase for prime video. It sucks, but it is not the same as “prime getting ads”. Not saying it’s worth keeping, but you are yelling like your only option is to watch ads or cancel

The problem is that pirates are mostly full of shit. They just don’t want to pay. It’s that simple. Everything else is an attempt to rationalize.