Illegal doesnâ(TM)t mean I donâ(TM)t have the right to record, tho. Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.

They've already burned millions on lost races. The silver lining to patronage politics is that everything bet on the loser is lost.

You will not replace us!!!

But with a little stretching of English grammar, we might replace us.

Nonononono. Build prosperity. Build progress. Build civilization. Build job... Uh, timeout on that one.

Please don't look too closely or ask what any of it means in practice, because we can't have you standing in the way of prosperity and progress.

I can paint you as a monster. And if I say it often enough, enough people will believe it.

But he's arrogant. You can't make anyone actually believe it. You can just make them plapper it for loyalty purposes - which is what you're doing now.

They're independently funded in much the same way the Nobel peace prize is politically independent. Of course the prize sometimes goes to a deserving candidate still. And sometimes Guardian publishes something good.

Just, as David Graeber reminded us, never, ever forget their ratfucking of Jeremy Corbyn. And remember it's things like that they will spend their carefully built up goodwill on.

It says something that even though Lula is fairly close to Russia and China (the whole BRICS thing), and was endorsed by his close friend Julian Assange in a rare public statement, even US democrats can't feel bad about Trump's and Facebook's preferred candidate losing.

I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.

2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.

Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.

Airbnb allowed making guests do it.

They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.

Accounting is the art of counting the right things, once. Harder than it sounds. We need more heroic accountants and less heroic MBAs.

I've seen that repeated ad nauseam but I can't say I've noticed it. Cloudflare reported a drop in both traffic but that was apparently regular Yandex indexing bots.

So I wonder if it's just propaganda.

At least I won't be labeled a Russian bot for thinking so.

I suspect that "market share" is a lot about what kind of games heavy players are playing on Steam right now. March was when Slay the Spire 2 was released, a very Linux friendly game, popular with Linux demographics. Months where DRM-ridden MMOs or extraction shooter of the month dominates - which is most of them - will see lower Linux use.

They are factually security improvements.

Sure, as long as you're clear it's not your security as a user they're protecting.

That was a joke in reference to venues getting squeezed. Yes, studios and distributors never succeeded in getting a share of concessions, but they have tried, and by all accounts it's miserable to be in the venue business compared to the studios/distributors business.

FYI, it's also a bad idea to throw "conspiracy theory" around to describe garden-variety private profit maximizing schemes. Reserve it for grand conspiracy theories, those that would actually require superhuman levels of coordination and secrecy. You'll regret your rhetorical huffing and puffing in defense of Hollywood when actual grand conspiracy theories take hold of society and fuck up things for you personally.

You mean the theater gets to keep 5% of the popcorn sales?