And I say to myself... I need exact change...
mctoasterson
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All they have to do is sell a million copies for $700 each and they break even!
Luckily the YouTube app gets way worse with each update. Mine now tries to dark pattern you into signing in, and now features extra ads when you pause a video.
I'm switching to sideloaded SmartTube on a GoogleTV with Chromecast dongle.
I'd pretend to be outraged except I don't give a shit. They could go after the Chinese companies for continuing to sell products they know are dangerous and/or illegal in the US but so far nobody has done that.
Suppressors should probably just be an over the counter item anyway, as they are in much of Europe. They are a hearing safety device. The NFA is bullshit.
It's not a toy. It makes real cupcakes... with a 40 watt bulb... and there's icing packets. But the secret ingredient is love... Damn it.
The Orange Box is one of the last gaming purchases that I actually got my moneys worth out of.
Every streaming service now hordes their decent IP and sprinkles it in amongst a vast pile of shovelware content. They prize exclusives but don't adequately communicate what they have access to or why, or when the rights to that content expire.
There's nothing more ridiculous than paying for two streaming services, having shared access to two more, and then realizing the old movie you want to watch is only available as an ala carte $1.99 rental on a 5th service.
At that point just Yarr that shit.
MC Chris is Dead was the only record of his I listened to but I liked it. What is his best overall album?
For an ancient venal egotist like Joe, the fact that Kamala lost is close to a best case scenario. He would've gotten completely waxed if he had stayed in... but now he gets to say he was forced aside by the party leaders (Pelosi, the Obamas etc.) and that is completely verifiably true, but he also gets to claim he totally would've won, which is very likely not true, but now we will never know.
I just use ViMusic or RiMusic or one of those types of forks. I believe it uses YouTube and other sources. It is ad-free and has the usual stuff you'd expect like suggestions, playlists, genres etc. Occasionally the source platform will make a change that breaks it, an update comes out fixes it.
That and there are still (probably ancient at this point) desktop clients that scrape your Pandora and download local copies of all the tracks. That's another good way to never listen to ads.
We did this exercise as a civic learning experience in 9th year government/social studies classes. The teacher had us go through a mock (simplified) Federal budget and decide which line items to cut to achieve a "balanced budget" with debt reduction.
The problem is largely intractable for reasons that become obvious even to middleschool kids. Do you completely cut popular things like the space program? Gut entitlement spending? Massively increase taxes across all brackets? Reduce the military or infrastructure spending to laughable levels? All of those things are very unpopular but that is what it would really take to tackle the problem.