I assume because either their legal department, or it sounds like maybe this new exec Varma, thought that the previous language opened them up to potential liability in some jurisdictions.
The brightline for me is when the terms actually become onerous. If you were an extreme privacy nerd you were already using a fork anyway, for the average user there’s nothing in the terms that’s threatening yet IMO.
Everyone keeps saying this, but no one has an answer for why, if they’re definitely going to start selling all our data, they didn’t say that in the new terms? I’ll get upset when they actually change them to be shitty.
Cool cool, lumping “I love fascists, actually” together with “We’re clarifying our legal positions”
Brother you literally cannot be pro-capitalist and be left wing.
Yeah, if you’re pathologically afraid of actual communist theory.
The alternative is normalization of capitalism and the status quo, which is already very much the case in most of society. People are constantly dying and suffering because of capitalism, the bare minimum is constant critique.
Can we not? Like of all the shit to defend…
The fact that you can’t confuse it with other formats is precisely the advantage. With any other format (besides the awful lettered month) you have to use context clues to be sure you’re reading it correctly if the day is less than 13.
They’re human beings who have chosen to sell their body and will to the state to be used as a cudgel to enforce the state’s will through violence. We would prefer that they voluntarily stop participating in the oppression, but if they don’t they are willingly taking up arms against the disenfranchised, which means I have less than zero sympathy when they get what’s coming to them.
This is why people do it… Because no one’s willing to call them out and ask them to stop.
This is not really true in my experience. The vast majority of instructional videos and video essays are just repackaging a text resource, often just the list of references from Wikipedia. I think you’re just falling for the veneer of professionalism that makes YouTubers popular, but remember it doesn’t actually mean they know what they’re talking about any more than a random forum poster. There are of course exceptions, but the glut of instructional videos is just because they’re profitable, not because they’re actually full of unique knowledge.
Right… But unless you’re suggesting abolishing voting entirely, none of this suggests that withholding your vote in protest is useful.
Do you think it’s a zero sum game where voting somehow disables your ability to do other activism and organizing?
Yeah I prefer when the subtitles are like half a second late so it doesn’t ruin the comedic or dramatic impact of every line.
It’s an anti-joke. I love it.
Again, what’s your point? You think you’re being clever but you’re just sniping at strawmen with old ammunition.
Okay great job you dressed up some hateful shit with jingoistic buzzwords. What’s your point? We’ve all heard this before, no one is unaware of the rationalizations that conservatives tell themselves to justify their hatred and selfishness as tough love and societal stewardship.
At least there’s choice with Android. I’d much rather it was possible for FOSS phones to actually exist but in the meantime the lock-in with Apple is an absolute non-starter, as is basically everything about their UX philosophy.
It looks bad, but they’re still definitely not conventionally attractive or thin. They just don’t look the same. This is just nostalgia vs. capitalist franchise exhaustion.