We’re truly fucked, aren’t we?

It’s an Ivy League school.

Years ago, an ex-girlfriend was proctoring a course at an Ivy League. She had a billionaire’s daughter, a legacy admission, in one of her classes. The billionaire’s daughter never showed up to class. My ex-gf failed her. Later, when she looked at the recorded grades, the billionaire’s daughter who never showed up for class had a ‘C.’

George W. Bush graduated from Yale with a C average.

Ivy League schools educate many people. But they often just give degrees to the legacy admissions, to the wealthy, and to the politically connected.

The weird part is that there really aren’t more than a handful of universities that are actually ‘liberal.’ Since Conservatives see the world in black and white, all an organization has to do to be seen as ‘liberal’ is just not be Conservative.

That’s it. Either you lick Trump’s stank butthole, or you’re a ‘liberal.’ There is no such thing as non-partisan in their world. You either repeat the Conservative talking points, restate Conservative beliefs, loudly proclaim the party’s talking points, or you’re ‘liberal.’

Again.

These companies absolutely do need proper competition, but any classification of them as ‘American’ is shortsighted. These are truly multi-national, global corporations who exert their power across the entire planet and harm people across the entire planet, including in America itself.

Fascists get very, very upset when the rest of us, the reasonable people, don’t want fascism. They are disappointed in us when we don’t want to be ruled by their rulers.

They are truly stupid and harmful human beings and they should be loudly ostracized in every community in which they dare to advocate for fascism.

Absolutely. Between Ticketmaster and LiveNation, almost every performing venue in the United States is completely dominated.

We desperately, desperately need legitimate anti-trust actions in the United States; we need something that will reintroduce some actual competition into the market.

The first failure of the federal government that led to this path was in the 1990s and the Microsoft Antitrust Trials. That was the point at which there really could have been another way–but the billionaires, at that point, had all the inroads to government that the Reagan Administration made possible. Because Microsoft could buy politicians, the vast majority of people on the planet have never used any operating system other than Windows, and the Microsoft company gets billions upon billions of dollars from state/federal/municipal contracts.

Google and Apple, then, just followed the path that Microsoft bought and paved through government regulations. And that made it easy for other billion dollar companies like Ticketmaster and LiveNation to do the same thing in other realms–simply buy the laws, buy the politicians, buy the system that’s supposed to regulate them, and then use that system to remove all competition.

It’s only thanks to non-American, non-European countries that I can still afford to buy some things every now and then.

At this point, it doesn’t even make sense to refer to Microsoft, Google, etc. as ‘American’ companies any longer.

The central destructive forces in the world are truly multinational. Multinational corporations, billionaires buying entire governments. Just referring to them as ‘American’ implies that these organizations, themselves, have some loyalty to the United States.

They don’t. They hate U.S. institutions, so they bought them. They hate American citizens, so they take from them and harm them. The genuine threats to all of us, everywhere, are capitalists, and they have no loyalty or regard for anything other than themselves.

As time moves forward, I think more and more frequently about trying to get out of this shithole counry.

Thanks!

I’m thinking of an app for musicians to upload their music too. Bandcamp was good, but it’s been taken over by corporate power now.

Bandcamp does some pretty cool things even though it’s now owned by a Business-2-Business music licensing company. Makes me wonder how many Bandcamp artists have had their songs ‘licensed’ by Songtrder (the ‘biggest music licensing platform in the world’) to other companies without the artists’ consent.

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/is-bandcamp-as-we-know-it-over/

p.s. if anyone knows any good alternatives to Bandcamp, please let me know!

Yes.

The answer is that this is all a bunch of stupid bullshit and that the Trumplicans truly don’t give a damn about laws that no one can force them to follow.

At this point, there’s really no point in trying to look for consistency or rational justification for anything these people do.

The article makes me wonder if Waltz is intentionally countering the counter-revolution.

Either that, or he’s just stupid as fuck.

Maybe both.

All the apps that collect user data that has nothing to do with the actual function or purpose of the app.

Like–why does this solo word puzzle game need access to my contact list, camera, and location?

Article littered with affiliate links.

And it also doesn’t make sense.

Maybe they’re trying to get potential players of Elder Scrolls VI so hyped that they’ll still play the new game even if it’s sold ‘games as a service’ style

in which case, fuck that

What a cool idea!

I’m not 100% sure, but I think this picture was AI generated.

Yeah, I think they’re banning/blocking using AI right now. Either that, or they literally have the moderators fully on board with their Right-wing campaign.

If you really want to see what things like banning/suspension do, check out your Contributor Quality Score (CQS) here when you can: https://old.reddit.com/r/cqs/

I went from ‘Highest’ to ‘Lowest’ with one ban, and as far as I can tell, your CQS has an impact on the visibility of your posts.