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Obligatory "check your library". It isn't "literally anything ever published any time" like piracy is close to, but in a lot of places (at least in the US), there's a pretty meaningful selection of content you can borrow perfectly legally.

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Throw a couple Apple shares in a college fund for me.

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Panache is flair. It's a certain sort of showy style in how you act.

Charisma is habitually making people like you.

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It's not intended as a drop in replacement.

Backwards compatibility forever sounds great, but the technical debt eventually becomes a giant fucking limitation on improvement. They chose not to stay backwards compatible for a reason.

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As far as I'm concerned skippable ads are the same thing as any other ad. I use auto play for a reason and it's because I don't want to fuck with the remote every episode.

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They already fucking do.

They just pretend pre-roll trailers aren't ads.

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    The person you're complaining about made a perfectly reasonable and accurate post.

    Correcting clearly false information isn't "gatekeeping", and even if he had been an asshole about it, you pretty clearly don't know what gate keeping means.

    What are your best air fryer/oven recipes?

    My parents got me one of them fancy countertop air fryer/oven things and idk what to cook first when I get it set up. According to the box, it does everything a normal oven does as well as air fries. It can hold two whole chickens or 1 frozen pizza. It came with a rack for things like toast and a baking sheet. I also have a...

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    It does a way better job at most frozen food and leftovers than a microwave does, but takes longer.

    Almost anything you'd deep fry can be lightly spritzed with oil and done in an air fryer instead.

    If it's big enough for a pizza, you can make one from scratch instead of frozen. It's cheaper than anything but the cheapest frozen crap and a lot better.

    Question for legal folks: Travel based abortion restrictions

    Texas and I believe a few other states have passed anti-abortion laws that attempt to cover people leaving their states to seek safe and legal abortions. The ones I’m familiar with (as I recall) applied to things like traveling on state-owned roads to seek an abortion out of state....

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    It will never get ruled on because the core concept is so obscenely unconstitutional that it doesn't matter.

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    Yeah, this is obnoxious.

    It's also truly terrible at being persuasive.

    It's funny how google pretends the music on YouTube isn't straight up piracy and everyone just goes along with it

    Most people have extremely weird ideas of what’s considered piracy and what isn’t. Downloading a video game rom is piracy, but if you pay money to some Chinese retailer for an SD card containing the roms, that’s somehow not piracy. Exploiting the free trial on a streaming site by using prepaid visa cards is somehow not...

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    They have to pay for anything official.

    The rest is the "safe harbor" provision of the DMCA. Effectively, sites aren't liable for user generated content if they respond to official DMCA takedown requests in a timely manner. YouTube also goes beyond that to directly work with copyright holders to preemptively remove infringing content with content ID, which scans everything for violations, and their own tools to report infringement. They don't need to do that for the DMCA protection, but it's probably cheaper at their obscenely large scale.

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    Absolutely insane.

    I can understand extreme cases, like some sort of disputed IP where their contact to sell the content turns out not to be with the actual rights holder, resulting in no longer serving the content (with an unconditional full refund). But past that they should be legally required to host the content until the heat death of the universe.

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    Nobody is mentioning TV Show vs video game because there is no difference.

    Taking away any content a user has paid for is unacceptable without a full refund at absolute minimum.

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    A coupon for the same service is not and does not resemble a refund.

    Yes, villainizing them is entirely correct. If they sold the license 100 years ago and stopped providing it, they should be legally liable for a 100% refund of the purchase price, plus interest. If they fucked up their contracts in a manner in which they aren't able to serve the content to purchasers until the end of the time, it's entirely their own problem.

    I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

    They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....

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    They could have not given you root access and forced you to install your own OS for it to manage things that aren't on Steam. They could have locked the bootloader and refused to install anything they didn't sign.

    Neither would violate the license provided they made the source available.

    conciselyverbose,

    Your morals wouldn't be changing.

    Your behavior would.

    conciselyverbose,

    Waiting for whoever is obnoxiously climbing up my ass to take my spot to leave.

    conciselyverbose,

    Then pay someone to do the work.

    Supporting obscure trash isn't worth development time.

    conciselyverbose,

    Imagine anyone having a need for a video stream in the modern era.

    Or any other canvas with complexity .

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    If you, as the owner, don't have root, it's extremely locked down.

    There are a few you can get root, but they're the exception, not the rule, and having to jump through hoops for it is still a locked down OS.

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    It's also breakneck paced, batshirt unpredictable, and forking delightful.

    Also the season 3 and season 4 finales had me bawling.

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    The risk is that the business fails. There are no "sure thing" investments, especially at higher returns.

    Ask him how his business can fail. If he doesn't give you a variety of possibilities and ways he's hoping to prevent them, I'd be very worried that he's overconfident and not prepared for difficulties.

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    I don't think Trump is the first to run for president after being voted out.

    Not running for a lesser office is way more the "unwritten rule".

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    Do you really think they're going to make more revenue by making the pricing more than they're willing/able to pay?

    Because if publishers did, they wouldn't offer regional pricing.

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    I'm guessing they encourage screening for genetic markers of autism.

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