[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 months ago

It's probably not a bluff. They've pretty much saturated the U.S. market; there's not much room left to grow here. It would make more sense to focus their efforts on growing in other regions where they have plenty of headroom to increase their userbase and monetization. Depending on how things play out, they could match their current revenue in a matter of years and still have room left to grow. There's also the potential to re-enter the U.S. market down the line. Why would they throw that all away and essentially create their own competitor by selling their core technology and diluting/confusing their brand with whatever U.S. company they sell to?

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You should be getting some bitches maxing instead of grammar police maxing /lh

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 months ago

WHY IS HE SO BIG

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 5 months ago

Btw the term to describe that type of person is "tankie." They're ostensibly leftists, but in reality support all manner of authoritarian and genocidal leaders and groups.

Their foundational principle is generally "America and its allies bad, American enemies good" and almost all of their political positions are developed from that foundation.

Since tankies often don't like being called tankies, the more historically used term "campist" encompasses that "america vs everyone else" mentality. Campism is dumb and tankies end up fighting against the democratic movements they claim to support.

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 7 months ago

Why not use a reverse proxy to keep everything on port 443 behind your own domain or duckdns? /gen

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 8 months ago

And then go to court against Morgan Stanley…

I believe they've been trying to get out of the contract though which is good, but it's still easier said than done.

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 8 months ago

I understand the frustration in watching him waltz around unfazed after what he did, but we've never had to apply this law before. We need to get this right the first time. We can't afford to fuck up applying this law, and not fucking it up takes time.

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 8 months ago

For anyone wondering, their account was created two days ago and half of their handful of comments are like this. That person is baiting. Just report, block, and move on.

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 9 months ago

You could also imagine a malicious actor phoning home to that API to drive up "installs" for a game and make a small studio or individual deal with massive fees. If a company is making these kinds of changes against the better judgement of their user base AND their internal analysis (lots of stock was sold two weeks ago), I'm doubtful they even care to properly deal with those kinds of problems.

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Updated again to more than 800. Jesus…

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Most places in the world recognize two genders and their respective social roles: men and women. Some places recognize a third gender and its respective social and/or ceremonial role. This is the case for (some) North American Indigenous people, and two-spirit is a catch-all term to refer to a third gender role that they recognize.

It's hard to map onto the more standard two gender system that most of us are familiar with. When you think of men as the breadwinners and women as the child bearers, some cultures think of an additional distinct third gender with a designated social/ceremonial role.

But as you might have thought while reading that, men being the breadwinners and women being the child bearers is already a fairly outdated view of gender and social roles. Turns out social constructs are messier than they seem when you start to really analyze them and attempt to strictly define them.

TLDR: two-spirit is a catch-all term for a type of queer identity recognized by some North American Indigenous cultures.

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 11 months ago

YouTube makes money by showing ads on videos people watch. If they show people the videos they want to watch, they get to show more ads before someone stops watching YouTube for the day. This incentives YouTube to surface the videos that people will watch for the longest time with no regard for anything but their advertisers' willingness to have their ads played on said videos.

Also it's expensive to moderate a platform so big that one in three humans uses it.

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