Absaroka

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[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

The trouble is if they step down now, we're going to get some unqualified, young friend of Trump on the court for the next few decades.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have YouTube TV and only use it for sports.

I'll go one step further and say I haven't watched a new, regular network television show in at least a decade. Who has time to watch 20-something episodes each season - with much of that time spent on fluff story lines that only exist so the show can fill a time slot for 22/23 weeks a year?

Here's a great example: Lost.

At the time it was amazing. But there was also a lot of unnecessary BS in there because, frankly, they needed to fill time. If you go and look, almost all of the top rated episodes for the series were the last handful of episodes at the end of the season.

Now imagine if they took that show and made 10/13 episode seasons out of it.

I think you could make the same case for most network TV shows. Even if they were amazing at 23 episodes, they'd be even better at 10 or 13.

A great example IMO is Friday Night Lights. Amazing show overall, but that first season was just too long. Then because of a variety of reasons, they moved to 13-15 episodes a season (instead of 23 in season one), and the show excelled.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (6 children)

If you're looking for a VPN, check out Mullvad.

It's just €5 / $5.25 / £4.15 a month. They haven't changed that price since launching in 2009. So they've also been around a while. Does everything you need a VPN to do. And they're based in Sweden, which seems to have some good privacy rules. They also don't keep logs.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 57 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Might be a bit of a contrarian take, but at this point I think Trump needs to have a gigantic fuck up to drive people to the streets in anger, South Korea style. One of those 'we need our medicine before we can get better' moments.

For some reason tens of millions of people buy his "'I'm the greatest - only I can save you - they're evil and stupid" rhetoric.

So it's going to take a truly epic fuck up that he can't bullshit his way out of - and that the media can't ignore - for people to finally see that him and his cronies are all gigantic pieces of shit.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly ... Just don't connect the TV to the Internet.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (21 children)

And laptops, desktops, televisions ...

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 68 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah because somebody as motivated as the shooter in Manhattan will totally be deterred by removing the "Our Team" pages from your website.

Talk about focusing on the wrong thing. How about instead of worrying about how to hide the names of your executives you instead have a meeting where you decide to be an ethical company that balances the needs of the shareholder with the needs of your customers.

Novel idea, I know.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing burps better than bacon.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Western world really needs to start doing something about Russian propaganda and money in our politics. Or it is going to eat us from the inside out.

I think you start by arresting anybody who takes Russian money to influence elections for treason. Grab a few high profile folks like that, and the house of cards starts to crumble.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe letting oil producing countries into the fold and allowing them to sabotage negotiations wasn't a smart idea

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I enjoy that they're focusing on 'promoting pirated software and game cheats' before talking about malware first.

Cybersecurity ethusiast Karol Paciorek who spotted the playlist said, "cybercriminals exploit Spotify for malware distribution. Why? Spotify has a strong reputation and its pages are easily indexed by search engines, making it an effective platform to promote malicious links."

That's a very different, more helpful story. "Watch out, Spotify links are being used to distribute malware to your computer."

When abusing platforms, spammers and scammers leave no stone unturned to promote their agenda.

Money. They aren't doing this as part of a 'peons of the world unite to steal software' scheme. They're doing it to generate traffic so they make more ad revenue.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

“Frankly I was a little bit disappointed in 1986 when we moved from a six-day week to a five-day week,” he added.

“I was not very happy with that. I think in this country, we have to work very hard because there is no substitute for hard work even if you're the most intelligent guy."

Funny how the out of touch billionaires keep pushing this line of thinking. The guy is on record saying he doesn't believe in work / life balance and is currently pushing for a 70 hour work week in India.

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