Fucking called it

Relevant XKCD

Straight to the recycle bin, then.

Schrödinger's asshole. It's testing boundaries. If you say something, they'll claim it was just a joke. If you don't they'll keep going and likely get worse.

If you're up for something, or down for something, it means the same thing.

If you fill in a form or fill out a form, it means the same thing.

English is fucked.

Is this the new standard for measuring bullshit?

I don't know why but I find this viscerally unpleasant.

A subscription fee for a fucking license plate? We already have that, it's called registration.

This isn't -bad- news, but I'm still not impressed. They could have just, you know, not done it in the first place. They don't get credit for partially walking back a bad decision. The "advanced flow" is more likely a dark pattern, and will still have a chilling effect on FOSS uptake and distribution, which is still the intended purpose of the change.

I'm not against this, but I feel like the pizza needs to be on the bottom. You're just gonna get cheese all over your hands.

foremost proponent of corporate ethics

abandoning a pledge to pay direct suppliers a living wage by 2030

So, the "foremost proponent of corporate ethics" is NOT already paying a living wage? Fucking rofl.

It's the (insert current minority scapegoat)'s fault.

Recording from free to air is legal because of the "time shifting" argument. The show is being broadcast regardless, just because it's at an inconvenient time for you doesn't mean you should have to miss it. It's also worth noting that media producers fought tooth and nail against this.

We thought the internet would change the world. It did, but the world changed the internet, too.

Meanwhile in Australia:

I give it a year, tops, before they start serving ads in premium too.

The specs are insane, but you can't use it because the servers it needs to phone home to don't exist yet.

Okay this is a shitpost, but ffs don't try this. That's a small electric fan-forced oven. There's a nonzero chance the airflow will splash water all over the inside, which is absolutely not liquid proof. Water + electricity == bad.

$10 says their "solution" involves some combination of wildly expensive tech that doesn't work, inappropriate use of AI, and raging privacy violations.

Any job is like this if your time management is bad enough