So you’re saying I should never buy anything from Nintendo?
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So you’re saying I should never buy anything from Nintendo?
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What’s the high point of happiness for a pile of 21 cabbages look like?
Okay but when do we go planking, fam? It’s well phat, raaaazzzzzz!
Classrooms? I thought this was up in an office, damn they’re really trying to brainwash kids to hate themselves early wherever that is eh :-(
Our schools aren’t perfect, but I never saw anything remotely like that here, any messaging was always very positive and supportive and stuff.
It’s clearly bright yellow.
Besides, you shouldn’t have to be threatened with a speed camera to just stay under the bloody speed limit. It’s literally a crime not to, and besides that it’s reckless and dangerous.
Idiots that speed in cars deserve a special kind of hell where they’re tortured by all the children their kind have murdered.
What a weirdly unpleasant thing to say to someone. What country are you from that cares so little about other people?
I occasionally put “magic beans” on there :-)
Are you like, those old multi colour swirly rubber balls we used to get out of 20p machines as kids? Those were ill!
I thought that was the shit Chrome was doing to block adblockers and antimalware plugins, if Firefox is doing the same thing what browser do we use now? :-(
I don’t care about all the browser wars stuff, I lost interest when it was Netscape Vs IE, I just want a browser that I can configure fully myself and have it be as safe and secure as one can make it, within reason.
You suck at cooking yeah you totally suck
You leave Newbie outta this, he’s a beloved Doctor!
The fuck is XDefiant…
Yes yes, studies show this, studies show that. And they all contradict each other, especially if you just wait a few years for things to come full circle.
It’s gotten to a point where I just don’t believe them any more.
Maybe coffee does in some circumstances with some people have a link to preventing diseases. Or maybe not.
We’ve seen, and will continue to see, well researched scientific studies that argue both sides of this, until the end of history.
Believe whatever makes you feel better, that’s all you can do, really.
I like you.
Let’s go somewhere, fall, and forget to hit the ground together.
2019 isn’t some ancient far away time though, it’s just a few years ago. If Facebook were doing stuff like this then, think who else is still doing it.
Seeing as I live here, I’ll take the root beer.
Especially if it’s that Australian stuff with the sasparilla in it, Bundaberg, that stuff is AMAZING!
Those bastar… Wait what?
You can make any graph look bad if you control the axis bounds weirdly like this.
Not that I have good things to say about ubisoft, but at a glance one would assume their stock value plummeted to zero, which is not the case.
So basically “Don’t pay a fee to use a product or service”.
I imagine this guy advocates for sneaking onto trains without paying the fare too, and shoplifting, etc. right?
Does he think products and services are magically free just because they’re provided through a computer rather than over a counter, and that business shouldn’t be allowed to charge money for them?
I get that this guy would rather go back to an internet where ad sales can pay for everything, but that’s just not viable for a lot of people now. Heck, many online services today didn’t even exist the way they do now 20 years ago, such as Netflix, and wouldn’t ever have been viable funded by ad sales alone.
Should we just stop innovating and growing as a society, stop offering new goods and services because they’re not viable in an ad sales only marketplace?
Plus, I bet this guy uses an ad blocker too, as most people that talk like this do. If he’s actively fighting the very financial foundation he’s advocating that we should go back to, what’s his end game? How does he see this actually working?
What’s his plan for how we’re should fund all these global businesses and products and so on? Can’t charge money, can’t passively fund free at point of use services using ad and anonymous marketing data… are businesses just supposed to print their own money?
Look, I don’t love how expensive a lot of these products and services are, I totally get why people pirate stuff, and I don’t like how the world wide web itself is becoming more of a small selection of walled garden services vs the millions of cool web pages and forums and such it used to be. That’s a deeper problem outside of this scope granted, but I think this guy longs for those days a little too, and that’s part of why he’s rebelling against modern online businesses.
I’m not saying every company handles charging for their products well, or that they’re affordable (but what is these days), look at Adobe for example. Or look at Unity’s recent crazy ideas.
I’m just saying that simply advocating for a boycott of businesses for having the audacity to charge money for a service that costs money to provide is, well, shortsighted to say the least.
These aren’t local government services paid for and provided free at point of use by our tax pounds like healthcare or the fire brigade, these are businesses - often global - that need to make money to survive (and yes I know a lot of them funnel too much of those profits to those who don’t deserve it rather than their staff, but that’s a whole other problem).
Yes, I long for a post scarcity, money free, star trek style society where everybody works for free just because they’re passionate about what they do and want to create and share cool things, without actually needing to work to survive or thrive. I would LOVE that. But that civilisation doesn’t exist for us yet, and we can’t expect one portion of it - the Internet - to become that all on its own in a vacuum.
Hello fellow Western capitalist nation citizen, it is I, a relatable friend colleague of David! David will vouch for me, what a capital guy!
So, me and the boys (David’s idea, you know what he’s like) thought it might be pretty radical to scooby over to our local air force base and take some cool photos of us doing kick flips with their buildings and infrastructure in the background.
We think it would look totally tubular and really show those capitalist pig dogs (who we outwardly claim to love otherwise the secret police present in every Western nation will disappear us and our families, something we deny, but other nations with better intelligence services who don’t lie to the great people of their glorious nation educate their populace about) what we think of their money war machine.
Oh! And then we can up post the photographs immediately to TikTok for the klout points!
What do you say, are you in, Breve? David said you’d be in.