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Chainweasel, (edited ) to piracy in Amazon clearly lying about "ownership" on Prime.

If they’re saying “own” on their advertisements then they should be required to refund you when they eventually have to take it away. I’m pretty sure “ownership” has a legal definition and it’s probably not too ambiguous.
It should at least be considered false advertising if they can’t guarantee access permanently.

Chainweasel, to piracy in Alright then 🏴‍☠️

Wait, they’re not letting you stream because of your OS? That’s bullshit, I’d pirate it on principal at that point. No sense in waisting time trying to get your browser to report a different OS to work around it.

Chainweasel, to asklemmy in Why is canned soup often so bad even though soup tends to improve as leftovers?

Canned soup is cooked in the can in most cases so anything that may have evaporated away changing the taste is still sealed in the can. Also, when mass producing anything most companies will choose cheaper ingredients over higher quality ingredients.
So you’re left with a soup with low grade ingredients that’s still in the pot it was cooked in and never stirred, it’ll keep you alive but it didn’t have the same amount of effort put into it as someone cooking their own.

Chainweasel, to asklemmy in Edit: (What do you call this dish?)

Egg in a basket

Chainweasel, to asklemmy in What are some food items that cost less than what they "should"?

Snack cakes. Do you want to know why America has an obesity epidemic?
Because a whole box of Swiss cake rolls is $2.50 at Walmart and a deli salad is $5.00.

Chainweasel, (edited ) to piracy in so this might be a little embarrassing, but how do I create a torrent and upload to a tracker?

It’s the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett with original narrators (Stephen Briggs and Nigel Planer).
Audible has been replacing them with new narrators, and they switch narrators several times every few chapters in each book. There’s still some of the originals around on audible but they’re slowly replacing them one at a time. It was difficult to find a complete collection and all in good quality from torrent sites before.
I’ve ripped them directly from the CDs so it’s (mostly) great quality with the exception of a few that were converted from older tapes. And all the extras like the science of discworld books and a collection of short stories by Pratchett too.

Chainweasel, (edited ) to asklemmy in Lottery winner

Relentless advertising the week before the election. Any sooner than that and you’re wasting money. The electorate has the collective memory of a goldfish so wait until the few days, and especially the weekend, before the election and dump it all into an overwhelming advertising campaign. Every other commercial that comes on TV should be one of your attack ads listing everything horrible the candidate you oppose has ever done wrong.
Buying politicians won’t work, that kind of money will either buy one for a few years or many for a few months. But $500m is less than a million dollars a year for just the house of representatives and when that money dries up their normal donors will be there with big fat checks ready to change policies back to the way they were before.
In order to enact real change you’ll need to actually replace the people in power. And even then the major sticking point is making sure that the candidates you endorse actually make the changes that would limit future corruption.

Chainweasel, to asklemmy in Okay, how do I block all this meme stuff?

Support content seems to be most of what’s posted here now. It’s mind boggling really. A huge number of us are Reddit refugees and AskReddit was always about community engagement and not about support. I really don’t know what makes people think this is any different.

Chainweasel, to asklemmy in Why is there no community devoted to vinly preservation?

Because you haven’t started it yet?

Chainweasel, to asklemmy in What makes something a Luxury?

Necessity, if you don’t need it to survive but it makes your feel good it’s a luxury, and those things change with time. Today a home Internet connection is nessicary to make it in the world, but 20 years ago it was a luxury and 30 years ago it was a novelty.

Chainweasel, to piracy in so this might be a little embarrassing, but how do I create a torrent and upload to a tracker?

Awesome, Thanks!

Chainweasel, to historyporn in Geronimo driving a brand new Locomobile Model C, 1905

He was also a prisoner of war at this time and was rented out by the office of Indian affairs for events, like parades and fairs.

Chainweasel, to asklemmy in Have you ever seen coal burn? If yes, why?

Yeah, I grew up in a poor area in rural Ohio and we heated primary with coal until 2021.

Chainweasel, to asklemmy in Lottery winner

They’re not all Lauren Boebert, but there’s a lot more money than half a billion being thrown around in politics. If half a billion were enough to just buy all the politicians Musk would have done it a long time ago, that’s about 1/400th of his net worth when he keeps his mouth shut.

Chainweasel, to asklemmy in Okay, how do I block all this meme stuff?

Unsubscribe from the community. I did it this morning myself. It’s out of control and I had to scroll 2-3 pages before I found literally any content that wasn’t just a shitpost circlejerk meme.

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