There's also the fact that there isn't an algorithm trying to keep you doomscrolling by promoting commercial content.

That was a long walk for a short drink of "I've got nothing to hide."

Functionally, he's good at being reliably moral. See: the mirror of erised, the second GoF task, going willingly to his death.

"Just say thank you." Good god. I would have loved to see Zelenskyy lay Vance out for that, Buzz Aldrin style. But because he's a superior human being to everyone else in that room, he did not.

Ain't that the truth. People act like charging for software is evil no matter what. There's a huge difference between a lone dev trying to earn a living and a huge corporation trying to wring every last ounce of profit out of their users. And there's probably degrees of nuance between those.

Especially if they seem like a reasonable person, wanting reasonable amounts for good work.

And that's the important context in this discussion. You've got a dev who's active in the community and who builds an app not only with great features and UI but with stability too. And he has a not insignificant user base that is familiar not just with his work but essentially with this exact app... It's reasonable for him to assume we'll see the value and be willing to pay. And he is correct.

I'm personally averse to subscription models, but again context matters. Reasonable rate and you know what you're getting. And I say this as a huge fan of both FOSS and socialism. I could have easily just let my DNS continue to filter out the ads, but I appreciate quality and believe it should be appropriately compensated.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/perl_problems.png

And whenever you have a chart of historical data like this, you have to at least consider that an increase could be reflective of either improved diagnostic or record-keeping abilities.

Using "so"instead of "that". This guy germans.

It worked out just fine for her. Gave him a chance to dig his own grave, which is what he did and what she wanted.

That's the whole idea!

And the complete lack of emotion in his voice tells you he's long since stopped worrying about the consequences of his words/actions. He knows his base won't care.

I mean, what sane woman would be a Republican?

You should love in Virginia instead. I hear that's exactly what it's for.

Psychopaths.

Not far off: Futurama. "She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro."

The best kind of correct.

I hope they meet a very angry porcupine.

What a fantastic insult!

I am Lucy Liu. Give me your spines.

I think it was an issue where the CSAM was being copied to servers via normal federation with the instance(s) being spammed.

This feels like something out of Superstore: Glen puts this up and Dana destroys it.