My best friend is a librarian, and they’ve stopped buying ebook licenses because the terms were awful.

The publishers only allowed an ebook to be checked out a few times before the library had to purchase a license extension. The argument was that pylhysical books face wear and tear and eventually have to be replaced, so ebooks should have to be replaced too.

Yes, but it also hurts their case when they’re demonstrating clearly that they can filter out ads they determine to be harmful.

I saw Dear Evan Hansen in like 2019. The staging was kinda neat, and the vocal performances were spectacular.

The story was… something.

Aren’t the leaps 2-way? Do I remember it wrong (I haven’t watched since it first aired).

I thought when Sam leaped into someone, they were pulled into his body in the future.

I swear to God that Word exists to make us feel better about Outlook.

You ask people online and get 78 different answers, then get caught up in decision paralysis and stick with windows.

Aaron lot of out infrastructure still uses floppy discs.

But meeting the US’s requirements doesn’t prevent products from being sold in Europe.

It’s the same reason film studios started pandering to China and why frying pans sold in Florida have a cancerous materials warning label that’s only required in California.

Companies cater to restrictive regulations in major markets because those products are still legal in less-restrictive territories.

Yes, but the US is a huge, profitable market. And companies will bend over backwards to appease Nazis so long as it’s more profitable to do so than not.

Within the US we have issues with all the US History books being written to comply with Texas’s “slavery was actually good for black people” bullshit because Texas is such a big market and everybody wants in on it.

If the US government bans Graphene, Motorola will drop them in 1/1000th of a heartbeat.

Between this and Dex, there’s little reason left for me to keep using Samsung.

You don’t know if you’re sane. Millions of people aren’t aware of their mental illness and manage to live normal lives. LLMs can trigger delusional states in vulnerable people that have never experienced them because they are essentially delision-generating machines.

Not having to keep pace. They just get the competitive cars banned in the US, then charge so much fucking money here for their shit products it’s worth losing the rest of the world.

“You need to use the app to reserve a space for the public park.”

1/1/however far back the wheel scrolls before I click the year.

And it’s distressingly common for it to under-report my age - stupid march of time.

A bunch of social media accounts with their name and address may start attacking Scientology and right-wing crazies.

I went backstage at the Dolisney World Aquarium as part of a Scuba experience, and they said they didn’t have any say on whether the cetaceans on exhibit stayed or were released to the wild. They were all animals that had been injured at sea and were there for recovery, and a third-party decided if they stayed or went.

There was one manatee there they expected to keep for life because it always either rode on other animals or propelled itself by pushing off walls.

Just throw hard enough to trigger fusion reaction then.

I suppose we could make Flock feeds into porn sites…

I used to follow them back in the 90s. The lead singer then left due to drug and alcohol problems.