Exclusive contracts in media have been SOP since forever. If some YouTube sellout signs a specific exclusivity contract with YouTube, then they, you and Netflix have nothing to say about it. It's possible some of this could be found anti-competitive, when no specific contract is in play, but that's a road to a protracted legal battle taking years: feel free to hold your breath waiting for whatever utopian outcome you think you're owed on that one. What I find interesting is YouTube management clearly being un-self-aware and unconcerned, despite being a subsidiary of a company that has just been convicted as a monopolist. I can only take that to mean that they're confident that they've purchased sufficient political influence.

Right. Because the last Google anti-trust conviction was such a huge success and made everything so much better.

One small piece of the interweb social media cesspool isn't conforming to establishment safe space norms. Study it harder!

The success of Linux has owed a great deal to for-profit businesses for a long time now, way before Valve and Framework came along. Oracle, in 1998, porting their bread-and-butter database to Linux as a fully supported tier 1 platform, was a monumental moment. Then IBM got on board with major investments to bring Linux to their mainframes. Then Google, adopting Linux for their Android platform, in 2007-2008. Before all of those, there were countless ISPs standing up Linux on their low cost hardware to sell, I repeat sell , hosting. That evolved into Linux becoming the de facto standard platform of Big Tech search, social media and media streaming. The force of these commercial decisions is at least as important a contributor to Linux success and anything else you might credit.

Because these are ebil for-profit operations, we’re free to impugn their motivations with as much petty hate as we can muster. But if you’re thankful for Linux and have the least bit of intellectual honesty, you know you owe these businesses, whether you like it or not.

In two weeks (Aug 30) SpaceX will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2). In about half a decade, we're going expand knowledge about extrasolar planet population in this galaxy to an extreme degree using this instrument.

Michelle and Barak Obama produce Netflix content through their production company, Higher Ground Productions.

That's one of their their post-POTUS grifts.

He made a choice. If he had had the sort of gall typically exhibited by these grievance grifters he could be on the his martyrdom tour right now, jetting around to hob nob and make poignant videos with all his celebrity supporters, while they litigation financed his next decade of income suing everyone involved. One call to Obama and Netflix would make a 5 episode biopic, and spend a couple hundred million doing it. That's probably still going to happen, btw.

Apparently he lacked the fortitude for it.

Arday wasn't a dummy. He knew who he could get away with plagiarizing. He plagiarized minor academics; people that didn't have the power to shift authorities. People that were vulnerable to jackboots investigation "threats." He knew better than to plagiarize someone that mattered.

The vast majority of those "brands" are fly-by-night Asian products from effectively un-suable companies. Meta is a juicy American big tech outfit with deep pockets.

They're looking for a big payout. Europe and its pressure groups and governments have been using US big tech companies like giant money pinatas for a long time now. This isn't about anyone's privacy, and you'll know that years from now, after Meta has lost their suit and the market is still full of knockoff Asian wearable cameras. It's about a generational wealth acquisition for a bunch of lawyers and their investors. Yes, such lawsuits have investors.

The unions have a name for that. It's called "blacklist", and they have long since had it outlawed, like over half a century ago at least.

Highly likely.

Fired police are routinely hired by other agencies after being fired for cause. Substance abuse, abuse of power, it doesn't matter; this is commonplace, your ignorance not withstanding. Agencies are limited by union rules, which have the force of law via contract, from investigation of previous employment with other agencies; unless an actual criminal conviction occurs, whatever the relevant cause may have been essentially doesn't exist. The people making the hiring decisions are, likewise, union members, and are beholden to the union in their processes and decision making.

This reality is so prevalent it has a name: "Wandering Officer." You're free to dispel your ignorance on the matter with a 1700+ page analysis from 2020 if you wish.

While this is essentially correct, you're missing critical information: the plaintiffs they fear more than any other are public sector unions.

Amusing. Immediately bumped to +5 by the same bunch of knuckleheads that would condemn anyone pointing out that public sector unions are the reason for this clown world nonsense as a Nazi.

Now watch the "fired" officers get hired the next day in another jurisdiction.

If?

20-something poor students are literally bathed in rigging the instant they experience initial contact with post-secondary education in the US. They know, with metaphysical certitude, that rigging runs their world, and whatever goes on a polymarket is but the least of it. Only the clinically naïve somehow miss this.

That's where I stopped. NPR wine women language. These people have no problem with all manner of "ghastly" things going on, as long as it serves their virtues. I'm inclined to chalk this up to yet another moral panic among the privileged, and few others. When you look closely at the entire opioid conspiracy that went on in this country, you find an endless supply of NPR listening pant suited professional babushkas managing the clinics, pencil whipping the audits, and indulging their limitless altruism while safely ensconced in their gated suburban mcmansions.

Fuck these people and their latest crisis. Nothing going on at polymarket is a patch to the harm they do.