This is the type of advertising I actually like.

I'm a huge buff for music gear/tech. I love seeing the newest plugins, pedals, software. I actively seek it out. I know demos of products are effectively advertisements, but they are the right type of ads and aimed at a crowd that seeks info the right way and likely is a higher probability of making a purchase.

United Health needs to be broken up.

They are a racket.

Our first two presidents, Washington and Adams, both envisioned a system that could really only work if we had a large plurality of parties.

Washington in particular despised political parties and called them inherently self-serving.

Adams said that a two party system would destroy democracy, because such a system encourages despotic tribalism, in which party dissension inevitably focuses around revenge politics.

I think they had some foresight.

Maybe a better solution is to crowdfund someone to run for federal office under the guise of purposeful naked corruption. Their whole platform will be "I'm doing this so I can get access to information before the market does, and I will immediately disclose that information to my constituents, and provide realtime trading updates".

I'd vote for that person in a heartbeat even if the rest of their platform was non-existent.

Who knows? That may have already been an angle somebody campaigned on, but only behind closed doors and to particularly generous campaign donors...

They would need quite the bankroll. The most powerful congressional committees are pay to play and lobbyists usually foot the bill to get their guy on a committee.

This is what needs to happen.

Banning trading outright is impossible and won't happen.

Congressional staff and congresspeople (and their families + extended families) should be forced to trade via an exchange that publicly discloses immediately, and any person on public dime needs to disclose specifically WHY they made the trade or, there needs to be some sort of mechanism that forces said congressfolk to disclose their trades 48 hours prior to execution, and held for at least X amount of time. Any selling of security needs to be announced well ahead of time.

They should also, like judges, be recusing themselves from decisions and deliberations known to directly favor or hinder those personal holdings.

Ha! The supreme court (what a joke) has said that it's cool to give "gratuities" after the fact to judges or lawmakers who do what you want. It's not a bribe, it's just a gift or a tip!

Yes, well, it’s obvious the current Supreme Court is ethically and politically compromised.

It's very understandable. they want to upsell their existing customer base.

like you said, money grubbing. they need to grow this quarter, remember?

The original post is talking about a feature removal that's happening to everybody, even the premium peers. That's what's I'm referring to as not understandable.

It's not about paying them $100.

They aren't dumb. They've realized that a large section of people will not bother, and aren't capable of sailing the high seas. Hostile behaviors won't change until it hits their bottom line, and because they are an extremely profitable company, it won't happen for a very long time.

Maybe the buccaneers need to up their marketing.

Whatever happened to the media players that had built-in torrent searching and streaming?

There is nothing at all to be gained by advertising piracy, especially to the streaming companies.

Let them enshittify their apps and just tell your friends and family offline how to have a sane video viewing experience.

You mean like PopcornTime? I think it's still around in various capacities and different forks

truth told nothing in American society is truly worth the cost. especially with rampant inflation.

we've allowed capitalists and rent-seekers into our educational system and it's nigh impossible to root them out. same goes for healthcare, housing, etc.

>You’re basically arguing that having more uneducated people is better.

"I love the poorly educated"

~our current president.

>Many leaked documents have shown that Microsoft actually embeds employees directly with the IDF.

Are you sure it's not the other way around?