Dynex as well.

They don't know if you're not in the same house if everyone looks like they are.

"you shouldn't have put a strap on it."

This is also similar to a 20 page list of other comedians I've seen over the years.

The material was not creative. It was forced. It wasn't funny because two words in I had pretty much guessed what they were going to say. When you can guess the punch-line before the setup, guess what...it's a failure. A big part of comedy is "surprise".

Carlin's comedy made you think. This...just regurgitates pop culture in a style similar to a number of comedians.

I'd believe it. It was pretty lousy and not funny.

Except it did a pretty piss poor job of it. Horribly piss poor. Like if they fed carlin's transcripts and books in to this thing then AI is a total failure of a technology because it entirely missed the mark.

I mean I think it was last year Elvis' estate shut down all the Elvis impersonators in Vegas over likeness rights.

They were able to return but only after paying rights to the estate; and Elvis died 30 years before Carlin.

Likeness rights anymore are like copyright. Artificially extended.

The entire thing seemed like Gallagher doing a bad Carlin impression trying to make his fill-in jokes in to long-form. Same low-quality jokes, the voice was more Gallagher doing Carlin than Carlin. It was a total embarrassment to stand-up.

The insult is the estate is taking the thing seriously. Did they watch it? The jokes were trash, it was the worst set I'd ever heard. The voice was garbage too.

I've heard better comedy at open mic nights from guys who were pissing their pants. It wasn't funny, it didn't seem original, and if anything it should prove just how bad AI is at stuff.

There's an easy solution:

Don't provide IT to family. Period.

"I have nothing to say so I don't see why the removal of free speech is a big deal."

If the situation doesn't apply to you, don't speak up. Defending things simply because "it's fine for me" is selfish.

The problem is a lot of people don't. This is what the cell provider sold them. They're now locked in to a platform they may not like because once Apple gets ahold of you it won't let go. Oh want to switch to Android because $12300 is too much for a phone? Good luck because imessage has hijacked your number.

If it was easy to leave, that would be fine. It's not; and a lot of non-technical people are getting swindled in to things they don't want.

It's also a matter of principal. You create consumer-protection laws and then come back with a set of rules that largely prove the laws don't work.

We need to stop blaming consumers for corporation's monopolistic and anti-consumer practice.

Not at my house. I keep every TikTok IP and associated ASN on full reject.

Picture Twitter.

Okay...now picture that Twitter was composed of 40,000 smaller Twitters that could interact with the same space. Anyone can start the smol twitter and join the network. There's no centralized control. You're at the mercy of your smol twitter admin being able to block people. Get a death threat? Well maybe you can inform the police but there's no administration to kick them off the Fediverse. When they get banned...they make a new smol Twitter and continue.

It's everything that was great about early social media while being the worst of the internet.

I was on the Fediverse.

I left. It's a nice concept that's ruined by it's own creation. The number of servers that exist to just harass is mind-boggling. Your instance blocks one but two more pop-up because anyone can spin up a server and join the fediverse. After 3 days of being unable to block the disgusting spam and threats, I left.

Decentralized social media networks are just where hate and disgustingness breed. Anyone going to the Fediverse will have a horrible opinion of social media as a lawless garbage pit.