Diotima

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[–] Diotima@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the option is pretty easy to miss for someone who isn't technical. Font size -11000 and grwy or whatever, though I might exaggerate.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, they let themselves get bought by Yahoo and they banned erotic art. Its like they want to fail.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

And when they again need people, they'll whine about how no one wants to work for them. Or how workers are "taking advantage."

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As we look at usage of that and the number of people that were redeeming those and using them, it was just not a feature that was available in Crunchyroll and isn’t in our roadmap.

I'll translate corporate dickhead for those in need.

"We determined that the number of people who would be impacted would be low enough to avoid real blowback, so we decided to fuck those people in the Crunchyroll with a rusty Buster Sword because really, who cares what some anime nerd thinks anyway?"

Ideally, they would be forced to honor the "forever" promise in perpetuity. Alternately, forcing them to issue physical copies of equivalent quality to every impacted customer for every title they were to have "forever" access to would be reasonable. Plus, you know, a massive 'acting like complete dicks' penalty for trying to pull this nonsense.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be interested in seeing the number of E2EE enabled accounts used for criminal activity versus the number of regular ol' free Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook etc accounts. Governments absolutely have a hate-on for E2EE, so the police calling out these services specifically raises questions of motive.

Not that we should not be shutting down criminals... but this sort of framing tends to suggest that E2EE services are inherently criminal enabling, and that does not feel like a mistake.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Aah, the infamous "they." The enemy, the other, who is both villain supreme and the means to justify inaction.

Voting in the US works at the local level, arguably sometimes at the state level. I've seen it work. That it doesn't work at the higher levels has less to do with conspiracy and everything to do with the fact that (in the U.S. at least) both Democrats and Republicans have been colluding to close out opposition for years. That has nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with power. Absent active engagement, every system falls to greed and power.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

By your own logic, perhaps the Glorious Revolution you dream of is merely an outlet capitalists created to keep you participating while you sit waiting for a revolution that never comes.

Or perhaps it isn't a conspiracy at all. Capitalism isn't a cabal or a conspiracy. ANY approach we choose is prone to corruption if we aren't engaged. Capitalism, communism, socialism, and anarchy all require diligence and accountability.

The current state of the world is a direct result of our collective laziness. THEY (the infamous other) aren't to blame, WE are.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If they keep this shit up, plenty of people will be taking the step to turning them into a historical footnote. Expecting the service you've paid for, without interruption, is not a difficult ask.

Except apparently for Proton, it is.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

If only there were a way to pilot changes through a tier of users willing to act as testers.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Name them, shame them. They deserve the notoriety that their racist behavior offers.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not as such. I'm saying exactly what I said... that there's a strong democratic skew in this survey, which is not immediately apparent in the story. That is valuable information for anyone wanting to understand the results... not so much for someone looking to "hur hur" over the performance of the other.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

If America was truly as progressive as some people thought, a third party could sweep the Democrats with a popular progressive candidate

In a word, no. The GOP and the DNC actively collude to ensure that no one else can compete.

No you don’t. Because you have 2 options: Biden or Trump. If you are considering Trump as a legitimate pick, then just say you’re a fascist

So our choices are 1) fascists who support a fascist or 2) ethnic cleansing apologists who are 100% okay with voting for the man supplying weapons and aid to those committing the cleansing.

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