it's not as simple as "hardware has gotten better, software has gotten worse" because a lot of companies making physical devices are lost in the wilderness from a design perspective, but a rule of thumb that anything that charges you monthly gets worse over time works pretty well

Your voice -- your responses, your messaging that you will not pay for this garbage -- becomes the weapons workers in the industry need.

I guarantee you, every Reddit post, every huge Twitter thread, every article on a news site will be shared with management as an I TOLD YOU SO.

this is the solution to the "male loneliness epidemic" dudes need to either get butlers or become butler s

My real, genuine stance is that there are case by case situations for everything. Sometimes pirating is the right thing, sometimes it is not. But this insistence that artists are not workers is bananas and has reaching implications about solidarity within movements

If you want my complicated thoughts it is that bootlegging live theater is probably overall a net positive both for archival and accessibility purposes and for boosting a show’s profile and future sales since most people buy tix to things they are familiar with already

This shooting is clearly an isolated incident. The fact we haven't seen more, in a country that has regular mass shootings, is a testament to how much resettled Afghans want to be here.