In this case YouTube can do literally anything they want due to the lack of real alternatives. Hosting videos for free, for anyone (and any number of viewers) to watch, for free, is rather predictably not a very profitable business model. If you want to see what it takes to actually be profitable with such a model, look at the average free porn site. Extremely intrusive ads everywhere. If you don’t want to pay, and ads are the only revenue, advertisers are the customer, not you.

“unrealized gains” that you can somehow live off of indefinitely.

2. I posited that entire media eco system behaves this way but we society turn a blind eye

1. Ridiculous assertion. All it takes is a single person not acting in bad faith to disprove , which is the problem with absolute statements. You can be 99 percent right (you’re not) and still be wrong. Can you prove that literally 100 percent of news media is acting in bad faith? If so, why all this bullshit? Just lead with the proof.

2. Prove it. You’re asserting bad faith on the part of thousands of people (which implies knowledge of literally everyone’s intent. Are you god? Lol) without evidence.

3. We had an exchange on what I meant by this, with you highlighting that “media” is varying and explaining away how media behavior is not the same. Essentially creating dichotomy “media is ok” but these rando’s are the enemy. You did not provide facts to turn my opinion though.

Using the vocabulary of logic doesn’t mean you’re actually doing logic dude. My statement does not in any way create a “dichotomy”. It could right, it could be wrong, or anywhere in between. Nothing said implies “media is ok”. Nothing you said implied they’re wrong. Using the vocabulary of logic doesn’t mean you’re thinking logically. Try harder.

My position is that you are still working within the standard politics framework… muhh team good/right, other team bad.

Nothing I said implied that. You literally just imagined it, like you did the “dichotomy”.

I fundamentally disagree with this approach. I can’t change your mind and that’s fine. I think readers had a decent exchange to read.

Of course you can. You make a logical argument, backed by evidence. Why is that so hard? You haven’t even tried.

4. you proceed to engage with a bit of charge which cool by me… but i would want he key issue addressed. Why does main stream media gets a pass for this from avg person?

This is not the question you originally asked, and assumes several assertions that you haven’t backed up with anything let alone proven. It’s also such a vague question that an answer is impossible. You have assumed that your read on “the media” as a whole is right (apparently 100 percent of them are acting in bad faith? Lol), that somehow people know this (proof?) and give them a pass( what does that mean? People complain about the media all the time).

5. I would posit that the media and idiots on twitter are prolly funded by the same bad faith actors, well a soup of them from different sides. But what they are not funded by is avg people.

I would posit that you’re dazzled by the true complexity of the world and so you simplify and imagine things in order to fit it into your head and make it make sense. "The media " is not funded by one person or the same people. This is trivially probable.

But what they are not funded by is avg people.

Who are these average people? Aren’t they the ones giving media a pass for all acting in bad faith?

Study epistemology dude. The questions you’re asking aren’t all bad. But you literally don’t know how to think. You just simplify until things make sense to you. That’s not how you find truth. The question of “how do I know what I think is true is actually true” is an extremely important one. Smart people have been asking it for thousands of years. Try learning from literally any of them. Epistemology is important.

If you think this, you don’t understand the media and the role it plays within the regime.

…? Was there any argument in there somewhere? It’s barely an assertion. As expected, even on an anonymous forum without any consequences you’re still unable to actually assert a rational position and back it up lol. Do you think maybe that’s because you’re full of shit?

You explained nothing. I clearly answered your one trivial question and you have no follow up lol.

You guys always prove to be completely incapable of rational thought. It’s why the article triggered you so much.

Owners of the US have fake news run propaganda that has no basis in fact.

Generalizing this far is not rational or productive. There are varying degrees of quality in US media with varying problems within. Zooming out this far isn’t productive. Might as well go further and say “people lie, therefore nothing can be trusted”. Sounds deep, but is just a futile meaningless statement. Most problems with news media stem from distortions of fact, but obviously do have some basis in fact so right off the bat your premise is faulty.

Do you hold these people as accountable

If you’re asking whether I hold media accountable for lying or for bad reporting (no, they are the same. If you can tell the difference that’s on you), then yes I do.

You’re now far off topic. Spreading baseless conspiracy theories constantly and having some of them be sort of adjacent to the truth isn’t a vindication. It doesnt mean you were right to say what you said.

Can you ask a coherent question? Who is my regime? You’re not being charged by the word. Be specific.

I’m convinced that’s exactly what they want you to believe.

If I pump put baseless conspiracies nonstop then statistically I’ll get something sort of right at some point. It doesn’t mean I was right to espouse that bullshit on the first place. Showing your work matters. If you got to a right conclusion accidentally by making shit up , it doesn’t mean you were “right” or that people were we’re wrong to laugh at you. There’s a thing called Epistemology. Humans have been doing it for thousands of years. Learn about it .

The wise thing is to not offer perpetual licenses in the first place. You can’t predict the state of your business in 10 years let alone beyond that. Why make commitments that? Marketing of course. So if they’re going to raise capital that way (by one-time revenue from sales of perpetual licenses) then they can’t just decide that perpetual doesn’t mean perpetual anymore. All in all this will come down to a legal duel between expensive legal teams.

Because they make it easy and do a few cool things.

“Do you want a mic in your home that can record everything you say and do and send that data off to wherever the company chooses?”

“No of course not.”

“What about of it will also turn your lights on and off and play despacito on demand?”

“You son of a bitch, sign me up”.

The fact that this tweet caused their stock price to dive really shows what a joke the stock market is .

Did you have 3 strokes while typing that comment?

https://youtu.be/gLrraUzG24w

It’s highly likely that you had one or more bad-but-not-dead cables (like a weak termination) that was limiting your speed. By swapping everything out you fixed the problem. Cat 5e to 8 definitely shouldn’t have caused that much if a jump (if any).

The power argument is true, but secondary. The primary reasons for this are ultimately financial. The problem was that Windows 7 was too good. Too stable. It did everything most people wanted, without issues. What has been added to windows after windows 7 that was actually beneficial to the user? The answer is nothing, within a small margin of error. That’s why upgrades to W10 and now 11 are as forced as possible. It’s not like those uogrades have anything that people actually need or want. Since they can’t produce anything more for windows that people would actually want to pay for, all that is left is adding in telemetry/spyware and selling your data, likely along side a long term vision to turn Windows into a monthly subscription.

When innovation ends but demand for increasing profits doesn’t, enshittification is all that is left.

The distinction between that and a malicious hack consists entirely of intent .

Agreed on both counts. This happened because Microsoft made adoption easy. And this will be fixed within a day. None of the fundamentals have shifted. Even though it’s stupid, this isn’t going to fundamentally shake anything up.

Similarly: if you write a program to randomly run through all the combinations of pixels on a decently large screen (say, 1080p) you will eventually see every important question and answer that can be expressed on a screen.