1. putting paywalled content onto the internet, where you let bots look at it but try to prevent humans from being able to see it, is plain evil.
2. NYT lied to get us into Iraq, and countless other times, they are pure evil
3. NYT did not contribute to the building of the internet in any way. but they see it as their god given right to take the hard work of the nerds they hate and use to make millions of dollars for themselves, while giving nothing back
4. nobody here seems to understand the difference between a USER AGENT and a BOT. If i ask my web browser to fetch me a web page, that browser is my user agent. of course it does not respect the robots policy. same thing if i ask an LLM to fetch a page for me. that LLM is my user agent, not a bot in this case. NYT is mad because they let all bot-like user agents in, they want to be indexed after all. of course here again we see where NYT wants the benefit of internet resources like being in the search index, but they want to give nothing back and make the actual human people suffer by degrading their experience on the web

this fucking guy

ghostery (works for safari on macOS too), firefox focus, or brave

its missing a few. wheres discordianism ffs?!

remember that time canadian socialized medicine told a vet in a wheelchair that it would take too long to get the help she needs so wouldn't it be better if she just euthanized herself?

there's pros and cons to every system

edit: just to be clear, i agree nobody should have some insane medical debt from a broken arm. in american when i broke my arm i went to a private doctor and paid a couple hundred bucks. it was fine, not in the poor house over it.

fml!

i said sad tire. wtf is satire

sad tire

i did the work to validate. it definitely is, lady is pretty funny

iirc there was a short time where the apps were published by default once the compatibility layer was in place. i definitely used the feature to make my app work across the whole product line, but there were a couple of things that were broken on macos that i had to put in fixes or workarounds. that might explain why more developers haven't released their ios apps on mac.

no mods no masters

ah, thanks for explaining that. if there is an option to join or not join, then the unions would have some incentive to do a good job. but in the usa, that isn't an option, so every union eventually turns corrupt.

I'm sure that was done intentionally, to render unions (worse than) useless.

isn't it funny how humans will end up using a trillion times more energy so that the calculator can be less reliable, but acts like a person

i am millennial but i did hear it before. on the line.

this feels correct. niche terms become slang. seems right

nassim taleb calls it "over-platonification," expecting everything to meet some platonic ideal. it is absolutely pervasive. this is another great example of it

how would you know ahead of time? mostly (in USA at least) you don’t get a choice. when you join a job if they have a union you have to join, even if its corrupt. how can you prevent them from becoming corrupt?

unions would probably make sure all juniors have to work weekends. kinda like airline unions make juniors work 10x unpaid labor hours than the seniors

i had an infant at the time my wife and i watched this series together for the first time. every time it came on, the baby would stop crying if they were crying. we would put the song on just to quiet the baby sometimes! so we have a special place in our hearts for that song haha

i just do a tiny bite of anything. super tiny, maybe with a sip of water. but, i concentrate really hard on the fact that i ate something. usually works ok