Really, why make every Tweet to be a story or post. Who cares what this doofus thinks. He clearly just says random shit most of the time without thinking.

Also, Apple/Google/Valve/etc. do a lot for their cut. Credit Card fees, charge-backs, hosting, very limited QA, offset the cost for the free stuff, etc. While yeah 30% will be too much, but I'm sure 3% they would lose money, or have to drastically cut back services/features.

Maybe there is a productivity drop off, but a lot of office work is just waiting. Most office workers will often just endlessly scroll ReddTwitFaceTok in between real work. Is that better?

I'm surprised that is even allowed. Normally Google/Apple isn't cool with messing with/monitoring the traffic of other apps.

Does it act as a pseudo VPN or something?

Aww shit. The shame.

So, they will add a line to EULAs saying that anyone under the age of 18 can't use their service in Minnesota.

Fixed it!

Even without anything fancy like machine learning, this doesn't seem like it would be hard to fix.

Give points out for "suspicious" behavior, set break points for warnings "It appears that this account is in use by someone else. Was X use on Y date also you? [Note: Netfflix/Disney+ accounts are not to be shared with people outside your household]" , text/email confirmations to the account holder, etc.
They could even offer an amnesty type deal, offer limited huge discounts for accounts flagged with an option to export a profile to the new account.

Points could be issued for :
  - "Stationary devices" (tvs/Apple TVs/Desktops/Xboxs/Rokus/etc.) being used in multiple places
  - Different account profiles being used consistently on the same different locations/devices
  - Multiple mobile devices using different Wifi networks consistently.

The theory is that the content is curated/guided by the CCP because it is stuff they wouldn't sanction. They boost content that is "bad" because we use it and people in China can't.

  - People acting "correctly" or showing positive traits = bury / discourage this behavior in the US.
  - Dangerous trends, controversial content, random sexy things = boost / encourage in the US.

As far as conspiracy theories go, that sounds like it would be totally viable.

As much as I dislike it, that does seem like it would be a pretty good solution. Most of the big piracy places would get squashed. Which I guess is secondary to their goals of being better able to restrict the content their people have access to.

But it seems like it would need work, it doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to find 100+ likes of pirated content on YouTube, Facebook, or Twitch.

That is awesome. I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.

True. Luckily more and more are challenging them or requiring significant documentation to support such claims.

But even so, who cares. Just because they find a priest from Q-Church to fill out a form, doesn't mean a business has to allow it. I think it is time to no longer consider these wacky religious exemptions as "reasonable accommodations". "I appreciate that your Church of The Naked Man doesn't allow you to wear clothes and cover God's Devine work, but need to wear clothes in the office. If not find someplace else to work."

By "major" I didn't mean to say "all" or something. I was using that as a sample. I'm sure there are many smaller religions that are opposed to it. In addition Christianity doesn't have a top person that can say X is good or bad.

But who cares, there is no good religious argument to be made against the vaccine for people in modern society. Virtually all medications both over the counter and prescription have been tainted fetal cell line testing. That also applies to many foods and cosmetics. So unless you're Amish and you only eat food you grow/kill you using the byproducts of testing in the aborted fetal cells.

I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about but there are no fetal cells in the vaccines. Yes cells from the fetal lines have been used in testing, but that goes for the same thing for pretty much every other medication, Viagra, high blood pressure, flu vaccines, cold medications, etc.. Aspirin and Tylenol have since been tested on the fetal cells.

So unless they also forgo all other medications they don't have a leg to stand on. It is obvious that they are just using it as an excuse, and I'm glad more and more agencies or businesses are calling them on their BS.

I'm sorry, I didn't know that Intel had a plant in Kenya.

But since you are using Catholicism, Pope beats Bishop: https://www.reuters.com/busine...

Every major religion has come out in support of the vaccines. There is nothing in it that would be objectionable to anyone who takes any medication or over the counter pain med (Tylenol, aspirin, etc.).

Even the US Army has given out zero religious exemptions

This isn't some security researcher or something, he's a dude who has a side-hustle making new world videos. He posts between 1-3 videos a day, most of them about 10-15 minutes. All the videos I checked were monetized, a calculator estimates his income to be about $50 a day. So, totally commercial.

The part where he demos the bug takes about 1 minute, the video was a 12 minutes long, entirely of in-game footage (as these content creators do, he just talks a lot and goes around and around to pad the video to be >10 minutes for the extra ad). So it's not like he was even trying to spread the word, just create content for his channel.

Correct, this clip would not replace the market. One could say that being able to watch so many videos of a game might discourage people from buying it. I've not purchased games I might have otherwise because I experienced enough of the game via YouTube or Twitch. But that argument hasn't been used in courts so who knows how it would fly.

So, it's not as clear cut as it seemed.

[The video has been since put back and he got an apology from Amazon they blamed a glitch. Maybe they've been testing a system to try get rid of expolit instructional videos since the game has been such a dumpster fire.]