Well, the fine print on the FREEZED PEACH types is: “offer only good for cons.”

Xitter is a Nazi hang out, taken over by a sympathizer. No explanation needed.

I wonder if he ever had it.

Did they back out of their police associations?

Remember that absolutely fucking stupid ad Ajit made about using the net? Awful.

Yes, this is a trend I’ve been commenting on for…well it seems like a very long time.

It’s clearly enshittification in nearly every single case; the more clueless johnny-come-lately tech-trendsters want to label me as just being old-fashioned or something when I bring it up. Trying to explain to them what is going on is usually a pointless exercise, as they have been steeped in a new==better mindset that is nearly ironclad and since they didn’t use reason to get themselves into that position, but instead, emotion, trying to reason them out of it is not going to happen…

Call it what is is: GREEDFLATION.

What is ironic about this is that Bezos could probably make all of their video streaming free and have no ads and still be making gobs of money. Their AWS ecosystem is practically a license to print money. Oh and that little store he runs on the side, too…

I’d say we crossed the Rubicon on this front decades ago, when in-person, at the theater, movies started showing actual ads and not just trailers before the movie you just paid for (and it was at the same price, of course).

I remember the first time I experienced this in a theater. My GF was like “…the hell?” and people were fucking booing the ads. But it didn’t matter enough - the ads are still here.

And yeah, it still annoys me.

I don’t know many Democrats that think there’s a pee tape, but I do know many that would not be surprised if kompromat on donnie - including a pee tape - did show up.

Well, people like Newt and Rush have been at it a long time, so we probably don’t need that much help.

The Texas Republican Party made being against critical thinking part of their platform, explicitly.

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I was not taking issue with leases, just commenting on the notion of a cost over and above a lease/car payment.

I just wonder how much of a market there is in fixing these issues for consumers. As in, giving people FULL ownership of their own cars…and to hell with ridiculous corporate “laws” like the DMCA.

I hate everything about the idea of paying a subscription for a…{checks notes}…car. It’s already bad enough when people are paying monthly for car payment or lease payment, now they get hit with a subscription for software?

I hate this timeline.

I always think of Ben Stein’s comment in that Frontline episode on the Secret History of the Credit Card - people that pay off their credit cards every month and pay no interest are called “deadbeats”. Around the 11m 30s mark…as it goes for credit cards, it goes for so very many other things. If you can afford an upfront hit or what have you, you pay less than people that are in a worse financial situation.

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=2mHsTKvAuZc

That’s the best pronunciation, IMHO.

I’m assuming he could still be accruing wealth if he did that.

Assuming he made at least 5% or so per year on investment income, that would be 2 billion, and if you assume a 20% tax rate on that, it would be 1.6 billion, still more than 365 million it would take to give away one million every day.

And so if he could live on less than ~1.2 billion per year, he’d still be gaining wealth…

To see him explain it on Xitter or with a cartoon meme or whatever, he was in the “center”, and the radical left was so extreme that they brought the Overton window to the left and ruined his day, and were super mean to him, too, I guess. In other words, look at what you made him do, all normal Americans!

Or something. I guess the super-mean liberals also stole his hair, too.

Imagine having so much wealth that he can walk away from his utter failure at Xitter and remain completely unaffected. For him, this is like some side-hustle vanity project a bored trophy wife runs.