Temple Square

At this point, it’s just a temper tantrum.

Democrats/scientists/experts/youth are the “annoying older brother” and anything they want is “stupid.”

Lead poisoning (gasoline) really ruined a generation.

GIF was ancient in the YTMND.com days. And nowadays, YTMND is like two decades old. Back when my life had hope.

But…

A more expensive product becomes a more price-sensitive product. Now one customer represents income from 3-4 customers.

Recession hits. People are more likely to cancel something that is $25/mo than $8/mo. And each cancellation is like three cancellations.

Going “premium” is a valid strategy. But since we haven’t had a serious recession in 15 years, I believe it’s a shortsighted one.

Long run, they are corporate morons.

T-Mobile was “paying” for a rarely-used account on my family plan. Parents used it in another state. I occasionally used it. My brother logged in once in awhile. On any given week, it might see like 4 hours of collective viewership.

Turns out TMobile’s contribution only covered the first $8. I have been paying another $10/mo. out of my own pocket and wasn’t batting an eye.

Netflix was getting $18 a month for doing almost nothing! And that could have continued for many more years without my even questioning it.

BUT… One day I couldn’t sign onto my own Netflix account that I pay for. Evidently, I’m not in my own household? That led to my discovery of the gargantuan amount I was paying for a service I barely use anymore.

So now, thanks to their greed, Netflix gets $0 from me. And not a single family member has phoned to ask why Netflix no longer works.

Some executives in Los Gatos may soon learn Econ 101’s supply-and-demand curve.

TIL you can cross between the border of Oklahoma and Colorado, technically…

That music video from the rooftop!

I guess you could say at least The World Trade Center went out with a bang!

^(I’ll show myself out now)^

A fool and his money are soon parted. From the same class of vehicles that tried to lock heated seats behind a monthly subscription.

You know what’s nice? Those cars can F right off. I won’t buy one new. And never will buy one used.

Always will be “budget” cars (Corolla, Civic, Versa, etc.) that won’t screw around with this crap because the buyers can’t afford to screw around with it.

TRY to paywall a heated seat in a Civic. I dare Honda. It won’t be more than 10 minutes before someone has it badly wired up like an aftermarket subwoofer.

It doesnt have to be centralized. Just allow power users a function in their Lemmy app of choice to “group” similar communities into one mega community per topic.

Like a frontpage, but just for ONE topic.

And then we could share lists with each other or something.

Elon Musk does fascist things.

But that doesn’t mean every bad thing Elon Musk does is fascist. Sometimes it’s just greedy. Or stupid.

That was my reaction when Elon first bought twitter. It’s like he’s so stupid he thinks Twitter is the only possible platform that could ever be a twitter.

It turns out, we’re all pretty clever at figuring out places to talk. The talking is going to happen. Where we do the talking keeps changing.

Don’t forget the “Jesus fish” on their logo.

I’m from out west, so it was a very foreign concept for me when I visited my sister in Arkansas and saw a lot of “Christian Family Auto” type places with Jesus swag trying to win over business.

To be fair, I was quoting a famous line from the show Arrested Development.

What could it possibly cost? Ten dollars?

Agreed. RiF was my world. I literally took the news re: API changes worse than when my girlfriend broke up with me (shortly before). My stages of grief have centered more around reddit than her, lol.

Now Reddit have shown they are toxic. And I no longer wish to add value to their platform.

I miss some subs, but honestly this place is FUN. It’s so old school! And it’s great to see the activity increase daily.

But the good news is, tech is a highly disruptable industry. Barrier to entry is accessible for regular people.

And that’s why we’re here.

Reddit doesn’t die because we left. They die in a few years when the Fediverse just works better than Reddit. And we fund that.

Speaking of, how do I kick in a few bucks to help out various Lemmy servers? Anyone know?