You get what you pay for.
Pay a little money, get a little quality. Pay a LOT of money, get high quality.
Well your coach didn’t have to pay anything, so fuck you and your body! He’s only coaching high school football.
Whereas NFL coaches have to pay their athletes millions of dollars, and expect high returns on long term winning.
Unless you’re Kevin Stefanski. In which case you coach The Browns. And no one expects The Browns to win…
The difference is, reddit has Spez. Spez has the authority to sign contracts that allow google to send him checks in exchange for AI scraping.
Whereas google (or other corporations) would have no one to send that check to. Nobody owns the fediverse.
They could create their own instance. And you could block/defederate from them if you want.
Threads is owned by Meta. Meta is a mega corporation. Threads took steps this past summer to federate. And IMMEDIATELY anyone who didn’t want to see them defederated.
Today, I can’t say Meta has made any impact whatsoever on the fediverse. Which to me is a bad thing. It tells all profit driven companies that there is no profit to be made on the fediverse. So rather than invest in the fediverse’s future, they will instead invest in other platforms where they aren’t driven out.
Whereas if they invested in the fediverse, they would have no way to truely control the fediverse. But they can buy Spez. So now instead of growing, Lemmy is shrinking. And the alternative, reddit, IS fully controlled.
I don’t believe that’s even possible on the fediverse. But we can let them pour their resources into growing it until they figure it out.
…what if I WANT a big titty goth gf?
Smart TV OSes help TV-makers stay afloat in an industry with thin margins on hardware. Not only do they provide ad space, but they also give OS operators and their partners information on how people use their TVs—data that is extremely valuable to advertisers.
I turn my tv on, turn it to whatever channel, and then I just go about my business. I even leave the house. Go to work. Ect.
So if I had a smart tv, I they would get info like “oh, he’s been watching tv for 36 hours straight…”
Meanwhile, I may have watched 3 hours combined at different times.
Oh, you want to pay these companies more money, because more people are watching? Ok…but I’m not even home. I’ve been at work for 5 hours. I just turn the TV on so it looks like someone is home.
In this case? Erections.
Well, those are macroplastics.
Either of the two remaining Batman games, please!
Take the /s away, and you have summerized all of Florida.
“WOOOOOOO!!! I AIN’T GOTTA GO TO SCHOOL NO MOE! GONNA SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY!”
Half the audience nods. The other half shakes their head in disapproval.
Really? Are you excluding places like staples, and office depot? And walgreens?
I see walgreens sell 16gb microsd cards for $70.
You can get them small. You just gotta agree to get ripped off.
We need to find a better way for a LOT of shit.
Like, have you SEEN the world? Shit’s fucked!
This is like a riddle.
Landmine?
Sniper?
Car bomb?
Vietnam pitt trap?
I think he’s saying he’s a murderer.
Or maybe Obi Wan is a murderer.
Hard to say.
Only if I have a mirror.
Canada has nice things.
We have unmarked cars, with unidentified thugs kidnapping people.
I’d LOVE to stop by and chat with a grandma! That sounds lovely!
Will this finally answer the age old question:
What does the fox say?
See, that’s the thing. We had WW3 in the 1970s. Hitler came back, and he was riding a dinosaur, and Ghengis Khan was disco dancing the night away!
But you never heard about it because we have time travel, and decided that was a stupid timeline.
Oh, also, none of this timeline exists either. We deleted from existence in 2012.
The real timeline? Bernie Sanders won the 2016 and 2020 elections. Covid was a much easier thing to stop, because people got vaccinated.
And Dorritos bought Taco Bell, and IMMEDIATELY went bankrupt.
See? Everything is actually better now. You just never got to experience it.
Hey! Whoa! Uncool!
Drunk uncle here…I don’t stumble. I sit on the recliner until I pass out watching porn that I’m not aroused by, and not jerking off to. It’s just “on”.