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Right-wingers are still lying

That’s about all that needed to be said.

Lucky bastards.

the people will go after the advertisers, they’ll go after you if they see you supporting anything like that

Yeah, called voting with your wallet. Y’all might know a thing or two about that with BudLight.

That’s why we have to go after this and get back to just common sense and decency.

Buddy, when your dad called for the long form, we went past that point. That ship not only sank, the ocean it sank in dried up, and the star the planet was orbiting went supernova.

It’s not even funny, or ironic, or anything but dead serious here, there’s zero aspects of decency left to associate with anything Trump wise. Your dad literally tried to overthrow our government. We are so past any degree of decency.

Many folks voting with feelings will just simply refuse to patronize my business because of my support.

Yeah. Freedom to do that is a thing in this nation Trump’s daddy tried to overthrow. Just like when y’all’s bleeding hearts convinced you to start smashing Keurig machines or shooting up inanimate beer cans.

Only mildly hate it for you, but suck a bag of dicks if you’re supporting some asshat that is a shit human being, that attempted to violently destroy our country. Y’all want sympathy? Should of nominated literally anyone else that actually did the fucking GOP debates. But nah, just had to nominate the shittiest fucking sack of swine manure to have existed since Jefferson Davis. So y’all just hating this whirlwind you’re dealing with after calling down all that wind?

I wouldn’t hold your breath, but I’ll see if I can find someone who might give a fuck that your business is swirling the drain.

That’s not untrue though. The number of times the average consumer has over corrected to only put themselves into a position where they over correct yet again is sobering.

I’m not dissing AI or the average consumer, I’m just saying they often paint their asses into a corner over and over again only to complain when they paint themselves into a corner.

Number of times I’ve heard people complain about having to pay the monthly price for iCloud is a non-zero number. But then you suggest getting a phone with an SD slot and they’re aghast that you’d suggest them giving up their blue bubbles. They hate ads on their Smart TV but how would they watch their Disney+ without a Smart TV? I’ve got a CVS receipt sized list of things consumers complain about that consumers wanted but now find themselves in the awkward position of “not like this.”

C’est la vie. But there’s not going to be any kind of discourse that’s going to prevent folks shooting themselves in the foot. All we can do is just present some other options for when they inevitably have a bloody stump where their foot used to be. They’re going to use AI no matter what and eventually they’ll be wondering how their back is against the wall with all this paint surrounding them. Yet again.

I don’t think there’s any point any trying to persuade them of anything really. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. So yeah, the average consumer is completely going to snag these shit PCs up in droves, they also are going to eventually regret that, but that’s a future them problem apparently.

You and the person you replied to are correct.

No, you have a point and I wrote that oddly. I’m not saying we can only have one or the other. But yeah, my comment makes it sound like we can’t do helping small businesses without first taking care of large corporations. We can have both things happening.

That’s on me, I wasn’t entirely clear in that comment. We can have the small business help and that would provide benefit to small businesses. But small businesses won’t thrive until we ease up the grip that particular companies have on select industries.

Goddamn. Well she’s got the villain from Captain Planet look fucking locked down.

Having more small businesses is how you get less corporations and a healthier middle class

Except when the corporations just buy the small business. This is the big problem with breaking into an industry. If you do find a way to break in, then one of the larger guys will just buy you out or force you out. Facebook bought Insta for the sole reason to reduce competition. Meta bought them out at $1B, which was huge for a small business buyout. Post-Meta, Insta is now estimated to be worth $100B Literally a penny on the dollar for the buyout. Meta also bought out WhatsApp at $19B, currently estimated to be $109B worth today. Like things that are regular names at this point were once small businesses that were serious threats to larger companies. Meta’s Messenger was under serious threat by WhatsApp prior to the buy out.

And sometimes the point is to just get rid of the business altogether. Microsoft bought out Wunderlist for the sole reason to kill off the app. Google bought out Waze and has constantly been keeping them just functioning, but in 2020 the FTC launched yet another investigation into Google over Waze.

Small businesses won’t thrive without restricting some of the anti-competitive behavior of the larger corporations.

Vance stated he was unaware of Upton’s past mental health struggles and refused to apologize, dismissing the incident as a joke.

Yes. This is exactly what bullies do. “If I hurt you then it was a joke and you should get over it.”

The group that the Republican ticket accurately represents is breathtakingly small. But it seems it is mostly folks who run on hate and spite. You know, bullies.

Honest question as I only use Windows every once and a while. Can you get to that disk management thing from the Control Panel? The one that looks like gparted.

I’m not catching where he’s coming off “mad” so to say. He’s saying that Cinema and TV have kind of swapped and that’s almost true here. Now I’m nowhere as near definitive in that stance that “it’s a bay way”, maybe it’s for the better for the two to swap for the time. But I think he’s got a point in that Cinema is just chasing the dollar and kind of left “art” for whatever that means behind.

I guess it just really depends on what a particular person feels that cinema’s purpose should be. If it’s just here to entertain, then it’s doing quite well at that, in fact this is likely the golden times of that. If it’s here to be an expression of art, yeah, it’s completely failed at that with the formulaic rehashing it’s slumped into.