I call it, “subscription fatigue”.

Work bought me an iPad. It was my first foray into iOS.

I’m not sure what the app store was like before, but I couldn’t find a single app that didn’t have a subscription plan. Even a simple SSH client built using open source libraries wants $6.00/mo.

I totally understand why people groan and do a face palm any time they see yet another app wanting to charge them monthly, hoping that once there you’ll forget that you’ve subscribed.

The only reason that I paid for Sync is that I’ve seen the dev interactions and their dedication to the project. I would never ever pay for a software subscription from any of the big players. For a single person setup, I’m more than happy to do it. I donate to my favorite podcasts and my favorite designers from Thingiverse.

Late stage capitalism and the rent-seeking economy sucks. But becoming accustomed to individuals paying other individuals is one of the things we’re going to have to do to make it suck less.

That was mostly me once I found out that Lemmy had NSFW servers.

This is so on-brand for Republicans, I’m surprised there wasn’t a “/s” included on the letter.

Veterans? New citizens? More veterans? Teachers? Even more veterans?

All groups that have been reduced to mindless virtue signals by gatekeeping Conservatives who have zero intention of doing anything to actually help any of these groups.

Red voters don’t care that this behavior is morally indefensible and monstrous on its face. They don’t care that the founder of their own religion would have been aghast at how casually evil his follows have become.

Seriously. If the historical Jesus knew what his religious revival would lead to, the genocides and wars, he would have made his own cross on his first day of carpentry school.

And it’ll only be a matter of time before conservative candidates will have to kowtow to these dangerous busybodies.

“Mr. President, there’s a group of bored, angry, middle aged white women out here wanting to speak to the manager.”

Have to agree. It’s a relic of a much different time. With more women in the workforce and marriage rates dropping, being a divorcee no longer carries the stigma that it once did.

I’m okay with familial support being weighted to whomever has primary custody of any children.

And if there was a major discrepancy in net worth, like the Bezos fiasco, it seems fair to split things up more evenly.

It’s a very touchy subject. I don’t want to be even remotely associated with the “men’s rights” shitstorm. But I would like to see more of these antiquated, gender-based laws get modernized.

I was in South Texas a few months ago (not my idea).

At a local H.E.B. There was a rack of Pride merchandise including t-shirts and bumper stickers that said “Y’all includes ‘all’”

They were on clearance so my cynical brain leapt to the conclusion that nobody was buying them. Nooope. They were being destroyed and otherwise vandalized while on the shelf. This was happening so often that the manager decided that it was costing more to keep them on the shelves than the goodwill of the queer community was worth to him.

Wake me up when a corporation does more than the absolute minimum during Pride. Otherwise it’s just more sociopathic virtue signaling from organizations that would happily sell Khmer Rouge branded glasses if they thought it would increase shareholder value.

It has all of the hallmarks of a successful media franchise.

OG Jewish Christianity: The one-off movie that unexpectedly took off.

Pre dogmatic canon: That time you let Sony try to make a CD ROM version.

Post dogmatic canon: Bought out by a major corporation. Maintaining continuity becomes compulsory.

Islam: Darker! Edgier!

Gnosticism: A writer attends a cocaine party with his Neo Platonist buddies.

Crusades and Inquisition: DMCA for a different millennium.

Reformation: Fan fic writers rejoice!

Counter Reformation: Nuh uh!

Anglican Schism: What if we made this into a light hearted cartoon?

Mormons: Somebody tells a producer’s son, an aspiring writer, that there is no such thing as a bad idea. As it turns out, this is incorrect.

Modern Evangelicalism: Judge Dredd and The Punisher make tender love.

“Let’s not tie it to the skin color and say that the skin color determined that,” Walters said

This is also his stance on the Civil War. And Jim Crow. And Apartheid.

I think Florida schools are way ahead of you.