Where is the overleveraging now?
Out of curiosity, what don’t they understand about advertisers?
Paying for a VRChat+ subscription comes with an increased trust level, so possibly that.
Again, you have no idea what you’re talking about. You keep referencing talking points from ahistorical views of two societies as though they represent the entire world. I suppose to you, they do? You might be better…
So these are typically not conversations that queer people have outside of queer circles, because people like you cannot be trusted to engage in good faith or in a way that respects us as people, and your attempt to…
The words themselves are modern inventions, reflecting the western medicalization of the concepts, which in turn reflected bigotry — declaring something an “illness” is a great way to get people on board with…
Something like less than 1% of trans people regret transition, and of those half of them regret it because of social costs, i.e., bigotry from transphobes, and another big chunk regret that they transitioned as binary…
No. Don’t claim to speak for lesbians when there are actual lesbians here. (Hi! You don’t know what you’re talking about.) This is the propaganda bigoted lesbians spread in order to cast themselves as the victims. This…
You have no idea what you’re talking about. “Gender critical” people (they are not feminists) regularly harass trans people, including kids, to the point of suicide. They lobby for discriminatory legislation that makes…
Holy sh*t there’s a movie?? Thank you for making my day!
I bet you will. Try to be kind to yourself as it happens. My experience is that it can be very painful — like when your leg falls asleep and then you suddenly get circulation back, but for emotions — but worth it.
Reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal. spoiler warning The MC is a conman, given new life and a job resuscitating the postal service after a corporation has taken over and gutted the Clacks (in-world version of…
I would add that this can be extremely challenging (and possibly triggering) for people who had traumatic childhoods. In those cases it is best to start with loving compassion towards a beloved pet, for example —…
I’m curious about why you talk about Apple as though it’s a monolithic entity making coherent decisions. Tim Cook doesn’t need to have signed off on his himself as part of a grand strategy for it to have happened, and…
Fuck I hope not. I just googled the CWD occurrence map in the US. It’s...very scary.
This is great, but it makes me so nostalgic for the old web.
I think RileyJames’ comment provided a clear and realistic hypothesis of how Apple might come to abuse its monopoly power in this way without the sort of reasoning you assume, but it’s also probably relevant to note…
Yeah I think this is how things often happen. Just people being people, and using the tools available to them to get what they want. It’s the monopoly power behind it that makes it so damaging.
Did you read the article? The claim is that Apple delayed and denied app approval while trying to acquire the app, while approving the scam apps and approving other apps that incorporated his tech. ETA: I find the…
Of note is the claim that Apple deliberately sabotaged his app as a negotiation tactic for the purposes of acquisition. IANAL, but this seems bad. Even if it’s legally permissible, it’s the sort of outrage that’s both…
What do you use to strip the DRM from kindle books?
Isnt that also just not how the Pareto principle works? Doesn’t it say that 20% of inputs (people accused of fraud) are responsible for 80% of outputs (cases of fraud)? So this is actually exactly backwards. On top of…
You are assuming he will go to the trouble of reading these texts because somehow being given textbooks about how to work with other people is less patronizing? As gently as I can, I want to suggest that this might not…
So wait — you were banned by Google, then years later banned by Facebook before even trying to run ads? That almost sounds like they’re sharing ban lists
You’d think there would be a business opportunity for advocacy consulting, but I think the total lack of regulatory consequences for ruining people’s livelihoods renders that moot. FAANG can just ignore advocacy that…
Where is the overleveraging now?
Out of curiosity, what don’t they understand about advertisers?
Paying for a VRChat+ subscription comes with an increased trust level, so possibly that.
Again, you have no idea what you’re talking about. You keep referencing talking points from ahistorical views of two societies as though they represent the entire world. I suppose to you, they do? You might be better…
So these are typically not conversations that queer people have outside of queer circles, because people like you cannot be trusted to engage in good faith or in a way that respects us as people, and your attempt to…
The words themselves are modern inventions, reflecting the western medicalization of the concepts, which in turn reflected bigotry — declaring something an “illness” is a great way to get people on board with…
Something like less than 1% of trans people regret transition, and of those half of them regret it because of social costs, i.e., bigotry from transphobes, and another big chunk regret that they transitioned as binary…
No. Don’t claim to speak for lesbians when there are actual lesbians here. (Hi! You don’t know what you’re talking about.) This is the propaganda bigoted lesbians spread in order to cast themselves as the victims. This…
You have no idea what you’re talking about. “Gender critical” people (they are not feminists) regularly harass trans people, including kids, to the point of suicide. They lobby for discriminatory legislation that makes…
Holy sh*t there’s a movie?? Thank you for making my day!
I bet you will. Try to be kind to yourself as it happens. My experience is that it can be very painful — like when your leg falls asleep and then you suddenly get circulation back, but for emotions — but worth it.
Reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal. spoiler warning The MC is a conman, given new life and a job resuscitating the postal service after a corporation has taken over and gutted the Clacks (in-world version of…
I would add that this can be extremely challenging (and possibly triggering) for people who had traumatic childhoods. In those cases it is best to start with loving compassion towards a beloved pet, for example —…
I’m curious about why you talk about Apple as though it’s a monolithic entity making coherent decisions. Tim Cook doesn’t need to have signed off on his himself as part of a grand strategy for it to have happened, and…
Fuck I hope not. I just googled the CWD occurrence map in the US. It’s...very scary.
This is great, but it makes me so nostalgic for the old web.
I think RileyJames’ comment provided a clear and realistic hypothesis of how Apple might come to abuse its monopoly power in this way without the sort of reasoning you assume, but it’s also probably relevant to note…
Yeah I think this is how things often happen. Just people being people, and using the tools available to them to get what they want. It’s the monopoly power behind it that makes it so damaging.
Did you read the article? The claim is that Apple delayed and denied app approval while trying to acquire the app, while approving the scam apps and approving other apps that incorporated his tech. ETA: I find the…
Of note is the claim that Apple deliberately sabotaged his app as a negotiation tactic for the purposes of acquisition. IANAL, but this seems bad. Even if it’s legally permissible, it’s the sort of outrage that’s both…
What do you use to strip the DRM from kindle books?
Isnt that also just not how the Pareto principle works? Doesn’t it say that 20% of inputs (people accused of fraud) are responsible for 80% of outputs (cases of fraud)? So this is actually exactly backwards. On top of…
You are assuming he will go to the trouble of reading these texts because somehow being given textbooks about how to work with other people is less patronizing? As gently as I can, I want to suggest that this might not…
So wait — you were banned by Google, then years later banned by Facebook before even trying to run ads? That almost sounds like they’re sharing ban lists
You’d think there would be a business opportunity for advocacy consulting, but I think the total lack of regulatory consequences for ruining people’s livelihoods renders that moot. FAANG can just ignore advocacy that…