Fuck that.

We’ve caught on to how this works now. I anticipate about two more iterations of tedious, drawn out flip-flopping and misinformation during the remaining steps before we are either finally let in or the whole thing fizzles out.

I’m looking forward to our market share doubling from almost nothing to almost nothing. Still, not a terrible idea.

These guys are literally the last people in the world I would trust to regulate themselves responsibily.

Yes yes yes.

I mean, I have as much of a problem with Musk and his insane antics as the next guy, but is TikTok really an improvement in that regard?

Are we at the point where we have to select “the lesser fascist” when contemplating who should have control of our social media?

Can anyone give a very brief description of the parties in the map legend for those of us not familiar with the Spanish political landscape?

Yeah, I agree that’s probably how this is going to play out; Ukraine cedes some territory to Russia and is allowed to join NATO, hopefully safeguarding it against further Russian imperialism in the future.

In the meantime, we should of course keep supporting Ukraine as much as we can to give them as strong of a position in these potential future negotiations as possible.

Yeah dude, it’s the brand that’s the problem, you’ve figured it out.

After this, everyone will love it.

And as expected, the destructive consolidation of the industry moves forward again, cheered on by consumers celebrating the short term bump to the value of their subscription service.

Seems pretty plausible that the compute required for the “good” version was too high for them to sustainably run it for the normies.