See ya on the other side.

Somehow even less useful, since the source can’t even be verified.

My point is it serves no purpose here.

So explicitly not an expert.

What exactly has he done to warrant considering this? He’s a yt star, not a privacy expert.

Do people associate the car with Nikola? I’ve never really conflated the two. Though the bitter irony of the modern day Edison abusing the name is not lost on me.

It can vary. I haven’t been to many movies lately, but 25 minutes of ads was pretty standard at the chain cinemas with the popular movies. Smaller theaters and/or smaller movies could be as low as 10 minutes sometimes. Just gotta keep in mind the context and plan accordingly.

I do this at un-reserved theaters too. Just gotta be more flexible with your seating. Unless the theater’s absolutely packed and you get stuck at the very front, most of the seats are going to give you a good experience. It’s what the theater’s designed for.

Just go in 20 minutes later? Been doing it for years at this point.

This isn’t TACO, it’s graft.

This is the more typical process, ime.

It’s not a competition and you’re being a jerk.

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I dunno about the other two, but you absolutely own the music you download from bandcamp. Trying to gaslight everyone into believing that apple music isn’t shit is naïve at best, complicit at worst.

They also have regular “Bandcamp Fridays”, where they forego their 25% and give musicians 100% of proceeds for the day. It’s a good chance to directly support small artists.

and currently expect prices will remain the same

Surprising, but glad to see. Wonder how they’re swinging that.

Yeah. There are extra levels of Fucked here that people are pretending are equal. They were going after immigrants, too, but not like this.

MFA helps boost security of an account. It would do nothing to prove a user is human or not.

This isn’t particularly noteworthy or concerning, imo. These two communities are probably the least likely to care about authenticity, and also best suited for a system that’s only real success is spinning moderately coherent fictions. They have and will always be most interested in drama, which is easy to fabricate.

The real danger of these systems is shaping public discourse by sheer volume of noise. They can make any opinion seem overwhelmingly supported, or tear apart opposition with distractions and infighting. And they do it with a single-minded focus spread across thousands of voices.

Ah yes, the halceon days of non-stop pop-up ads and malware taskbars. /s

Not to mention that everything they mentioned was absolutely started to become what it is today. Nothing changed, they just progressed their plans over 20 years. Pretending it was all started with benevolent intentions is naive at best.