Yes, we should ban Microsoft

Conservatives often criticize universities for failing to prepare students for jobs. But that's like criticizing a library for failing to function as a gym. The purpose of a university was never vocational training. It was always the pursuit and transmission of knowledge.

honestly, this is the only good observation in the realm of what we're calling "capitalism" and/or "socialism" i've seen in quite a bit

Lots of greatness here but weirdly #1 - Tougher than Leather. and a close, deeeeeply underated #2 The World's Greatest Entertainer

Mandami pulled the Wu logo like the Batman signal

BREAKING: Wu-Tang Clan have broken Donald Trump's curse on the Knicks

I'm not sure what we can do to prepare for this, but given the amount of noise the MAGA echochamber is creating, claiming fraud because they lost an election in an overwhelming Democratic stronghold, we aren't remotely ready for what they'll do when they lose in November.

A lot of DSAers seem to criticize a Democratic Party that simply does not exist. "The party needs to talk about the economy, housing, and groceries!" Yeah look dude, I get you were too busy with the Uncommitted bullshit to notice, but Harris talked all about that.

YouTube deleted 16.7 million videos in six months. Gone. Channels you subscribed to. Tutorials you bookmarked. Music you saved for later. Creators you supported for years. Gone. So one engineer named Simon, originally from Switzerland, now living in South East Asia, built a tool that ends this forever. It is called TubeArchivist. Nearly 8,000 stars on GitHub. GPL-3.0. Free. It downloads any YouTube channel you subscribe to, stores every video on your own server, and gives you a Netflix-style library you fully own. No ads. No "this video is no longer available." No algorithm. No Premium subscription. Then YouTube did the unthinkable. July 18, 2024. They rolled out the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" wall. October 29, 2024. They started IP-banning entire data centers. Hetzner gone. OVH gone. Coincidence. Here is the wildest part. TubeArchivist did not fold. March 28, 2026. Simon shipped v0.5.10. New release. Same one engineer. 17x more commits than anyone else on the repo. It still works. It still downloads. It still restores the dislike count YouTube deleted in November 2021. One Swiss engineer vs. a trillion-dollar ad machine. YouTube Premium costs $13.99 a month. $167.88 a year. Forever. TubeArchivist costs zero. Forever. But DO NOT install it. We should all keep paying Google $168 a year to watch the videos we already chose to watch. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

I think most Gen-X artists feel this way. A lot of them are afraid to say it publicly for fear of their young fans destroying them.

I’d say we’re entering the stage of politics where white men on the left and right can be irredeemable and suffer no consequences but Black and woman politicians are picked apart for the most trivial things but tbh we never left it.

Three weeks on the road in France, running my entire business off a Framework laptop on Linux. Zero issues. Not one. Three years ago I wouldn't have dared try this. I'd have packed a backup machine, just in case something broke at the wrong moment in the wrong town. This time it never crossed my mind. People have joked for years that it's never the year of the Linux laptop. I'm starting to think it quietly arrived and nobody bothered to announce it.

Genuine question, is there any "song" -- i.e. track released under our "modern" music business thing as remotely as epic as this one? You'll find stuff like this in e.g. historical texts, but not sure about where else?

Phonte speaks on rappers from the south not getting their due recognition for being good at their craft.

i'm a lawyer so i'm posting this so you definitely know to be informed and to stay away from it

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At the risk of sounding like an actual boomer I really wish some of you younger folks (20 and under maybe) could have seen what the net was like back in the Wild west days because it was fucking glorious. We didn't have the amazing tech we have now, but going online meant discovery, it meant forums, chat rooms, so many different communities and places of interest. Now, after exchanging ownership for convenience, we wallow on these conformist, algorithm controlled nightmares valueing ourselves based on likes and affirmation. When you get some control, take it back if you can. Being farm animals for billionaires is okay but some days I'd rather have an IRC chat with an openly hostile admin, a few lively forums, and a few different sites to visit which aren't owned by venture capitalists. I'll go shout at some clouds now. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

Sometimes I forget how "normies" see the world. There are people out there that believe "consumers just decided to switch to streaming and give up physical media". Youtube lost money for a decade before it made a profit. Spotify lost money for 17 years. None of this is accidental or organic. People didn't "choose" these systems. They outright rejected them for literally decades while these systems operated at a loss that made competition with them impossible, funded by people who wanted to change the world into what we have now. A system where you own nothing, consume whatever is offered on-demand and nothing else, and you have no privacy or anonymity. Netflix killed Blockbuster with by-mail PHYSICAL MEDIA at a loss. The entire time they were eating Blockbuster's business they were losing money. After Blockbuster died, Netflix phased out physical media and I remember the severe backlash, but the choice was streaming or nothing. Still many (maybe most) people just cobbled together private collections from bargain bins and garage sales. Netflix continued to lose money....10 BILLION dollars of loses in the 2010s even after Blockbuster went out of business. Understand the truth, that a cabal of global institutional investors funded companies that nobody wanted for literally decades at a cost of untold billions of dollars....until there was NOTHING ELSE LEFT for you to use.

Platner is a perfect display of white privilege because we all know no Black candidate would ever be allowed to have this much horrible, deplorable baggage and still be allowed to run for office.