Forty bucks lets you turn pages on a non-paper device. What a world we live in.

Uh, huh, sure.

But the forced obsolescence caused by systemd is fine.

If the guardrails are so ineffectual to prevent the thing from happening, then they're not guardrails, they're guidelines.

The system was designed to withstand morons and self-serving grifters.

No it wasn't. The system has glaring flaws in that it requires all members to act in good faith. Soon as they dont, there are zero guardrails.

Who the fuck doesn't do it West to East.

SMHEO

Decades of appealing to the independents is what got us into this mess, they threw away their base.

~nt~

It wasn't 7 years to find the right spot. It was 7 years to realize Texas isn't as accommodating as he hoped, and he can buy off a broke state cheaper than a rich state. Of course, finding enough people to move to the Texan Everglades was easy compared to finding enough who will live in the bayous to run his steel penis rocket facilities.

We pay you to pay us, we're now doing Trillions!

So surely companies are going to line up and donate right . . . . right?

It always sounds like a lot of money to the bean counters until you explain to them the station probably spent tens of millions of dollars producing that content, and all it takes is a corporate meltdown or technical SNAFU and all of it is gone.

lol, do you not know how public broadcasting works?

Yes, but has your main account ever been suspend before or banned on a sub?

~nt~

That ended overnight when they stopped allowing anonymous access to old.reddit.com. [..] Problem is, the vast majority of Reddit's mods are - were - in the same camp.

What? If you're a mod, you're logged in, if you're logged in, you can use old reddit.