I want to support the artists and as such have no problem paying for content when it is a reasonable price. When there are literally no media costs involved, movies shouldn't be $20 after the initial release period. Rentals for $5 or more? No. Songs for $5? Definitely not.

That is a whole different rant of mine, thanks. At least some of the "pirating" is just people grabbing non-DRM'ed copies of what they already own.

Don't make it artificially scarce or too expensive via legal channels, or people will pirate. It's been shown over and over that most people are happy to pay reasonable prices for their media.

Right? Why is the doom music playing...?

That may well be the culmination of Elon's life right there. How often do you get to do something like that to a whole country?

I so wish I had points for you. Could not agree more, I'm so tired of the intrusive measures they use to push it.

Sorry, how does having money mean you can't protest racial inequality and having a much higher chance of being beaten or killed by police? Perhaps they think it means they have a greater responsibility to help create a political force to correct that?

You're piece of shit. Wanting to not get beaten or killed for no reason has no political compass.

You are completely right. It can't possibly be that China (and Russia) employs many thousands of professional trolls to try and drown out criticism of their policies or actions. Could never happen. /s

As I said earlier, this is a shoutout to the trolls, not a comment on the ongoing genocidal actions actions of that government. I'll leave that to more informed people such as yourself.

We have our first winner! Congratulations comrade!

Who says I'm not? Regardless, it was solely a statement about the chinese sock puppets that come out in force anytime the chinese government is scrutinized in any way. Nothing more.

Can't wait for the barrage of "you lie, you're guilty of worse, don't look at the man behind the curtain".

Always delightful.

I'll bite. What exactly are we then?

Alexa is pretty stupid and would fail a turing test. Going to have to show something much better than that to talk about redefining the measuring stick.