This is not a case of great editing … solid reporting, good numbers, takes a turn in the last graf and then summarily falls off a cliff. You can’t claim a trend, show one data point and then run the tagline.

There’s a certain level of amusement in trying to picture what those college end-of-party conversations that turn into breakfast at Denny’s look like for conservatives. I enjoy a good, heated argument, but you don’t bond over those except under very specific circumstances one doesn’t run into at that time.

I could swear Google wasn’t broadly a thing yet. The startup I worked at in 1999 had an elevator pitch for how we “could be the next Yahoo.” Not a great thing to aspire to in retrospect, but Google wasn’t on our radar.

I left Facebook in 2014, having had to rejoin because in that era, you had to have an account to get a job. Which is another topic but worth keeping in mind.

If I don’t know why I’m somewhere, I leave. Rave, website, bar … these are all the same questions, just with less external pressure because you aren’t the product in the other two situations.

Remember what that landscape looked like. The only major players we know today that existed then are Microsoft and Apple, and Apple had just been bailed out by MS to get in front of antitrust issues. Amazon existed as a bookstore, Google was not around yet, Facebook would still be several years out … MySpace wasn’t yet around. AOL was still a behemoth. Adobe sold perpetual licenses.

This is a far more recent development.

There’s always the option to store things locally. You want to get fancy, you can set up a NAS for remote access.

Saying “isn’t X also doing Y” implies the behaviour itself isn’t the problem, when it is. Doesn’t matter who’s using dark patterns for rent-seeking; it matters that we’ve normalized it.

… they said Archly.

This is an underrepresented viewpoint. We are at the point of “find out,” which so many tech companies thought they could stay just to the other side of the line on. Thing is, you can only move the goalposts so often before they’re in someone’s yard, and they didn’t sign up for this shit.

It was OneDrive upgrade nagging that made me switch to Linux. Microsoft could have, you know, not done that and kept a user. They also could have not gone regressive with how the taskbar functions. Or any number of other things that were dismissive of users.

At a certain point, you’re sitting in ever warmer water in the pot, and it occurs that maybe you’re being turned into food. That’s when the Linux pots start looking appealing. This was a completely avoidable problem brought to you by greed.

Greed! Because we don’t think making a good product is what capitalism is about.

That is a uniquely awesome hed. And only strengthens my belief that 404 Media is going to make corporate journalism wish that they’d not shit the bed to the extent that viable alternative options sprang up.

Here’s the original Rolling Stone report

I didn’t hit a paywall, but here’s an archive link in case that’s my Firefox extensions.

Quick reminder that you are on Beehaw. There’s only one rule here, and this sort of dismissive take does not adhere to it. Please find something substantive to dismiss.

Which is particularly acute in the case of Argentina.

I have to respect the restraint the retired judge showed here. I don’t find it appropriate, but it’s professional, unlike Cannon.

Has there ever been a left-wing austerity programme? This is anti-labour bullshit every fucking time.

The only anchors I’ve spent any time with were at WHSV, and this was 2002. Remarkably normal people, but as journalists, they knew how to party. Still not a Sinclair outlet, so I guess there’s that.

It’s an investment problem. No one is doing scalable wave power because the money is in offshore wind.

Tread lightly with the impact of this. Medical debt already doesn’t affect credit scores.

There’s no need of “slam” – or “eye,” “mull,” “Solons,” usw – in an era where you’re not writing a 1-42-4.

(1 column, 42pt, four lines)

Egregious clickbait hed. I don’t care the source, “than you might think” works psychologically on, well, more levels than you might think.

Throughout this election, and honestly, past it wouldn’t be bad, wherever you are in the world, this phrase should be a red flag that you’ve run headlong into bullshit.

That aside, Nature, are you OK? Journal articles tend to have as theses shit that isn’t somehow both obvious and vacuously true then not backed up by the passive voice, the gold standard for scientific literature. “The beaker was observed …”

Such freedom, being able to change your mind whenever your cult leader tells you to.