Didn’t the baby spiders fly away at the end of Charlottes Web?

Everybody is saying this is politically motivated and I don’t really think I buy that. Not ruling out the possibility entirely, though. Anything is possible but the logic just doesn’t work out to me.

First, CBS paid Trump. Trump didn’t pay them. They already capitulated by paying him off. Why would they capitulate further by getting rid of the most popular late night program if it was profitable?

Second, if this was political why are they keeping the show on until May of next year? Wouldn’t trump want them to cancel it sooner?

Third, they’re canceling the late show entirely. If they were canceling it to get someone critical of trump out of there why wouldn’t they just replace colbert with someone more favorable to him?

Fourth, these shows have had declining ratings for years now and the writing has been on the wall for a long time that these shows were not going to be able to hang around for forever in today’s streaming climate. I think more cancelation announcements are likely.

As much as I hate trump and wouldn’t put something like this past him I really don’t think it’s likely that this has anything to do with him. Doing this for money reasons is fully in line with how terrible capitalism is for art and I can absolutely believe that this was some dumbfuck accounting decision.

₹240,000. That’s like less than $3,000 US.

Not only that but it also intentionally starts with a lower case s. It’s almost like it’s purposefully engineered to be as irritating a title as possible.

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🎶This land is my land🎶 🎶This land is my land🎶 🎶This land is my land🎶 🎶This land is my land🎶

Or something like that.

Mine hasn’t gotten much use lately because the steamdeck itself has indirectly usurped it but man I love my steam controller. It’s genuinely the best controller ever made for certain types of games. I find it very difficult to play FPS games without it (or the steamdeck) due to getting so used to gyro aiming with the capacitive touch sensors. My only real gripe with it is the subpar build quality. They’ve learned a lot since then in terms of hardware manufacturing so I can’t wait for them to put out a new steam controller.

In 2005 they would have just taken your data without asking.

‘Could’ is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting there.

Honestly nationalism for the US has always been kinda gross to me. We’ve never really had much to be proud of as a nation historically.

No, they’re there for crimes. the issue is that the crimes are often fucking stupid and these people don’t deserve to be in the prison system for them. Doing drugs should not land you in prison. Period. It shouldn’t even be illegal to do drugs. People who have an addiction problem should be receiving treatment. Not punishment. But we have a prison slave population we need to maintain in order to keep the owners of private prisons’ wallets fat.

I’ve been kinda wanting the progressives to split off from dems for a while now but honestly the shitty dems splitting off from progressives is probably better. Let the people that actually want to do right by their constituents keep the democratic party. All those “center left” people can go create their bullshit third party and fuck off. You won’t hear me complain.

While that’s definitely true it’s not like there are any streaming platforms paying artists what they actually deserve. Other streaming services do payout slightly more per stream but they also don’t have the number of paying users Spotify has. So you’re likely going to make more off of spotify than any other service even if they do payout less per stream.

Not defending spotify though. Them and the record labels are absolute scum. Just making the point that if you want artists to benefit from you listening to their music just buy their music outright. Or go see them live if you can. Don’t stream it. Because streaming pays basically nothing no matter where you stream it from.

Um, good?

There’s so many depressing layers to that joke. Like a sad, sad capitalist onion laughing at its own rotting core.

Wait, the authors argued that? Why? That’s literally the opposite of the thing they needed to argue.

There’s a Ferengi woman wearing a lovely dress scribbled in the margins.

The idea that he doesn’t know how to properly use his own social media platform is honestly hilarious.

Wait. There’s crab in immitation crab meat? I though it was just some variety of white fish or something.

Heavily depends on where you live. I live near a big city on the east coast in a largely Blue state. I have 1 gig FiOS internet (up and down). In my area Comcast and Verizon compete for customers so our speeds here are alright. But there are plenty of areas in the US that have absolutely abysmal internet. Either because the area is rural so not much infrastructure has been built up or because the ISP in that area holds a monopoly on the market and doesn’t have to increase speeds to keep their customers. I’ve heard horror stories of people being stuck with like sub 10mbps because there are just no other options.