They were a media darling in the sense that they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising so weren't as widely ridiculed as an exercise bike company that values itself in the billions probably should be.
Just ignore how these 'free' games are jam packed with a million little microtransactioms and gambling mechanics designed to prey on childen. 'Hey kids, want that cool costume your friend has? Money please! You might also be able to win it from a sparkly, flashy loot box for less money, but probably won't. Don't worry, your parents won't mind just one lootbox... Or the next you buy without asking, and the next, and the next...'
Kids are emptying their parents bank accounts on these transactions, becoming addicts that the industry sneeringly refers to as 'whales', but it's fine, it's all just a harmless, fun free game.
Treadmills were originally used as a torture device in Victorian prisons, so it shouldn't shock people they've started maiming people. Speaking of harming people, Peloton has been quietly lobbying ti get state usury laws struck down to make it easier for them to sell their absurdly expensive torture equipment without any consideration for all the loansharks and payday lenders it would make life easier for. What a time to be alive!
The feds may care a little in high profile cases, but the cops? Not so much. Even if they're innocent, they'll find something to leak to the press to justify the arrest like possession of a small amount of weed.
So, how long until the police in places like Portland and Wisconsin start pulling this on people who attended black lives matters protests? Kinda feels like something they'll use to punish left wing protesters years after the fact, while right wing groups keep on starting fights and colluding with police to avoid getting caught up in rounds of arrests..
Oh no, a right wing boogeyman filed patents decades ago because it's standard practice for the role he had at he time! My god, this proves something, I'm not sure what, but I'm sure Alex Jones knows and will tell the world right after plugging some tarragon and parsley power pills that kill all viruses.
Wonder how Bill and Melinda Gates will stop this for personal gain while hiding behind the illusion of philanthropy the way they did the open sourcing of the Oxford vaccine?
It's tragic the way that vast swathes of america view 'owning the libs' as being more important than their own wellbeing. it means the worst actors can now turn nonpartisan issues like right to repair laws into something the lunatic contrarians will vote against because libs also agree they're a good idea.
'Democrats support right to repair laws! You don't want to help the democrats, do you?'
See also: Section 230, net neutrality. municipal broadband...
'You shouldn't need to invent a whole new internet just to enjoy the 1st Amendment.'
He wouldn't have had to if he'd followed the rules that he agreed to when he signed up, and, you know, not incited an attempted coup. The rules are applied to the majority of users without hesitation, high profile conservatives get special consideration but that's still not enough to keep them civil.
'Past policy disagreements', you mean like whether or not people who win free and fair elections should be allowed to take power? Whether or not it's right for far right mobs he's helped to stir up to storm the capitol and murder police officers in the hopes of being able to do the same to their political opponents?
And as the Redhatted brownshirts use pipebombs to burn down the offices of the Washington Post, the Editorial staff will take to social media bemoaning the fact that people whose rise to power they enabled out of an insane sense of 'fairness' don't actually care about fairness, free speech, nevermind freedom of the press, they're just useful tools to get beliefs that have been thoroughly discredited by history platformed and given an undue appearance of being legitimate.
'How were we to know that enabling the people who hate anything to the left of pinochet and have been threatening, and committing, terrorist could possibly lead to bloodshed? Hawley was elected to office, republicans would never put someone dangerously unfit in office aside from all the times they did.'
Except this is nothing more than a means to crack down on people in the company discussing the activities going on in their workplace. They're just slapping down a blanket ban rather than accepting internal criticism of things management are fine with that look horrible to more recent hires, like the 'Let's laugh at the funny foreign names' list.
Once again, it seems you're fine with free speech being cracked down on, as long as it's the free speech of the left or any sort of social conscience. It's almost as if your endless claims of being a champion of free speech are entirely disingenouous and you're fine with censorship as long as it preserves the ability to punch down.
It's been fascinating watching Koby's mask slip off in slow motion and shatter on the floor as he's gone from enlightened centrist worried about corporate power (affecting the right} libertarian who cares about free speech (but only that of people on the right), to openly embracing the language of modern day fascists as nobody was buying his insincere calls for fairness.
'No policymaker would allow a company to dump toxic waste into a river upstream of a thriving town he is charged with governing.'
The blind eyes shown to corner cutting, union busting, lowered environmental standards and wild and thoughtless deregulation of farming, mining and heavy industry in red states, and the machete taken to the EPA every time a republican is put into the whitehouse begs to differ.
That right there is why most rightwing talking heads steadfastly refuse to debate their peers on the left and go after college students with no media training. You can't get wins against opponents who've done their research and have come equipped to deal with gish gallops and adhominem attacks, you can only get exposed.
Koby wants that to be the case across all social media sites and Youtube. He will whine and whine and whine until every major platform has a Joel Kaplan behind the scenes kneecapping left wing content and any attempt to reign in promotion of right wing conspiracy theories.
Conservatives don't like Koby don't want fairness, fairness gets them moderated and held to the same standards as the rest of society, what they want is special treatment leading to dominance, turning the internet into a replacement for AM Talk Radio.
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They were a media darling in the sense that they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising so weren't as widely ridiculed as an exercise bike company that values itself in the billions probably should be.
On the post: Fortnite, A Free Game, Made $9 Billion In Two Years
Re: Competition Wins Again
Just ignore how these 'free' games are jam packed with a million little microtransactioms and gambling mechanics designed to prey on childen. 'Hey kids, want that cool costume your friend has? Money please! You might also be able to win it from a sparkly, flashy loot box for less money, but probably won't. Don't worry, your parents won't mind just one lootbox... Or the next you buy without asking, and the next, and the next...'
Kids are emptying their parents bank accounts on these transactions, becoming addicts that the industry sneeringly refers to as 'whales', but it's fine, it's all just a harmless, fun free game.
On the post: Peloton Is Having A Rough Week: Product Safety Recalls And News Of Customer Data Exposure
Treadmills were originally used as a torture device in Victorian prisons, so it shouldn't shock people they've started maiming people. Speaking of harming people, Peloton has been quietly lobbying ti get state usury laws struck down to make it easier for them to sell their absurdly expensive torture equipment without any consideration for all the loansharks and payday lenders it would make life easier for. What a time to be alive!
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Think you're confusing Hollywood with Republican policymakers there, champ.
On the post: Putin's Crackdown On Demonstrators Adds A Sadistic Twist: Using Surveillance Cameras To Identify People, But To Arrest Them Only Days Or Months Later
Re: Re:
The feds may care a little in high profile cases, but the cops? Not so much. Even if they're innocent, they'll find something to leak to the press to justify the arrest like possession of a small amount of weed.
On the post: Putin's Crackdown On Demonstrators Adds A Sadistic Twist: Using Surveillance Cameras To Identify People, But To Arrest Them Only Days Or Months Later
So, how long until the police in places like Portland and Wisconsin start pulling this on people who attended black lives matters protests? Kinda feels like something they'll use to punish left wing protesters years after the fact, while right wing groups keep on starting fights and colluding with police to avoid getting caught up in rounds of arrests..
On the post: If You're Going To Defend A Satirical Song From A Copyright Lawsuit, Don't Try A Bunch Of Stupid Alternative Arguments First
Re: He might have a point.
They made no secret of it, they even released a full blown Christmas album a few years back. It's genius.
On the post: Huge News: US Gov't Agrees To Support Intellectual Property Waiver To Help Fight COVID
Re: Say My Name
Oh no, a right wing boogeyman filed patents decades ago because it's standard practice for the role he had at he time! My god, this proves something, I'm not sure what, but I'm sure Alex Jones knows and will tell the world right after plugging some tarragon and parsley power pills that kill all viruses.
On the post: Huge News: US Gov't Agrees To Support Intellectual Property Waiver To Help Fight COVID
Wonder how Bill and Melinda Gates will stop this for personal gain while hiding behind the illusion of philanthropy the way they did the open sourcing of the Oxford vaccine?
On the post: Wall Street Journal Editorial Tries To Pretend That Fixing Repair Monopolies Is Bad For Your Health
It's tragic the way that vast swathes of america view 'owning the libs' as being more important than their own wellbeing. it means the worst actors can now turn nonpartisan issues like right to repair laws into something the lunatic contrarians will vote against because libs also agree they're a good idea.
'Democrats support right to repair laws! You don't want to help the democrats, do you?'
See also: Section 230, net neutrality. municipal broadband...
On the post: Trump Shows Why He Doesn't Need Twitter Or Facebook, As He Launches His Own Twitter-Like Microblog
Re: Re: Koby? Koby? Koby?
'You shouldn't need to invent a whole new internet just to enjoy the 1st Amendment.'
He wouldn't have had to if he'd followed the rules that he agreed to when he signed up, and, you know, not incited an attempted coup. The rules are applied to the majority of users without hesitation, high profile conservatives get special consideration but that's still not enough to keep them civil.
On the post: The Washington Post Thought It Might Be Nice To Provide Free Book Marketing To Insurrectionist Josh Hawley
Re: Must Have Been A Great Interview
'Past policy disagreements', you mean like whether or not people who win free and fair elections should be allowed to take power? Whether or not it's right for far right mobs he's helped to stir up to storm the capitol and murder police officers in the hopes of being able to do the same to their political opponents?
On the post: The Washington Post Thought It Might Be Nice To Provide Free Book Marketing To Insurrectionist Josh Hawley
Re:
And as the Redhatted brownshirts use pipebombs to burn down the offices of the Washington Post, the Editorial staff will take to social media bemoaning the fact that people whose rise to power they enabled out of an insane sense of 'fairness' don't actually care about fairness, free speech, nevermind freedom of the press, they're just useful tools to get beliefs that have been thoroughly discredited by history platformed and given an undue appearance of being legitimate.
'How were we to know that enabling the people who hate anything to the left of pinochet and have been threatening, and committing, terrorist could possibly lead to bloodshed? Hawley was elected to office, republicans would never put someone dangerously unfit in office aside from all the times they did.'
On the post: Verizon's UltraFast 5G Can Only Be Accessed 0.8% Of The Time
Wireless so fast their customers can't catch it.
On the post: Basecamp Bans Politics, An Act That Itself Is Political
Re: Don't Spread Misery
Except this is nothing more than a means to crack down on people in the company discussing the activities going on in their workplace. They're just slapping down a blanket ban rather than accepting internal criticism of things management are fine with that look horrible to more recent hires, like the 'Let's laugh at the funny foreign names' list.
Once again, it seems you're fine with free speech being cracked down on, as long as it's the free speech of the left or any sort of social conscience. It's almost as if your endless claims of being a champion of free speech are entirely disingenouous and you're fine with censorship as long as it preserves the ability to punch down.
On the post: Senator Marco Rubio: Speech I Disagree With Is Pollution
Re: Re: Re: Thy name is hypocrisy
It's been fascinating watching Koby's mask slip off in slow motion and shatter on the floor as he's gone from enlightened centrist worried about corporate power (affecting the right} libertarian who cares about free speech (but only that of people on the right), to openly embracing the language of modern day fascists as nobody was buying his insincere calls for fairness.
On the post: Senator Marco Rubio: Speech I Disagree With Is Pollution
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Marco Rubio is so full of ****, once he leaves office he's got a bright future as an EPA superfund site.
On the post: Senator Marco Rubio: Speech I Disagree With Is Pollution
'No policymaker would allow a company to dump toxic waste into a river upstream of a thriving town he is charged with governing.'
The blind eyes shown to corner cutting, union busting, lowered environmental standards and wild and thoughtless deregulation of farming, mining and heavy industry in red states, and the machete taken to the EPA every time a republican is put into the whitehouse begs to differ.
On the post: James O'Keefe Sues Twitter For Defamation... For Shutting Down His Account
Re: Re: Re: Selective Enforcement
That right there is why most rightwing talking heads steadfastly refuse to debate their peers on the left and go after college students with no media training. You can't get wins against opponents who've done their research and have come equipped to deal with gish gallops and adhominem attacks, you can only get exposed.
On the post: James O'Keefe Sues Twitter For Defamation... For Shutting Down His Account
Re: Re: Selective Enforcement
Koby wants that to be the case across all social media sites and Youtube. He will whine and whine and whine until every major platform has a Joel Kaplan behind the scenes kneecapping left wing content and any attempt to reign in promotion of right wing conspiracy theories.
Conservatives don't like Koby don't want fairness, fairness gets them moderated and held to the same standards as the rest of society, what they want is special treatment leading to dominance, turning the internet into a replacement for AM Talk Radio.
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