To be fair, $65/month for gigabit fiber is pretty standard.

It’s what we got here in Southern Illinois, although I don’t use it.

Good reddit humor.

I wholeheartedly believe the vast majority of the hype surrounding sports is from gambling.

Where do their profits come from?

The rubes who don’t use adblockers and those who subscribe.

The point is that YouTube was profitable before implementing these anti-adblocking measures.

Nothing I said is defending this move towards aggressively combating ad locking.

You don’t like the fact that they make money by showing you ads? Take your business somewhere else.

Anyways man, have a good day. Gonna block you now.

You don’t like the fact that they make money by showing you ads? Take your business somewhere else.

YouTube has been profitable for years before they implemented these anti-adblock measures.

Shouldn’t have been paying for it in the first place.

So… it’s good advice to the streaming crowd who is inherently tech-illiterate to not only recommend they set up a fucking server, but also get a VPN?

Jeez. Just recommend them a free streaming site at that point.

But the 🧩’s among you won’t accept that.

I know Plex gets a lot of crap here

Where? All I do is see people shilling plex as a replacement for streaming services without mentioning you have to buy the fucking content to put on the server.

I’ve been using pandora this entire time.

Never really understood why people pay to stream songs when everything is on youtube for free.

But the thing I always want to make clear to people is that the vast majority of people printing guns are the equivalent of the guys making kit cars in their garage - hobbyists, not criminals.

Yes, you want to make this clear because you’re concerned about regulation. This is a political issue that you’re mentioning, nothing more.

I was merely stating that you don’t need to print in metal to make a functional 3D printed gun.

The VICE video I mentioned has everyone who is printing 3D guns eager to specify their stance on the political talking point, just as you did.

Who fucking cares about porn?

Let their parents do it.

Just use the heat to power the machine.

You don’t need to print in metal to make a functional 3D printed gun.

VICE did a video on it. I recommend checking it out.

Yes… they’ve been doing it for years.

Not even ‘oddly enough.’

While you can’t own a bomb factory without proper authorization (because its only purpose is building bombs), something as general-purpose as a 3D printer would absolutely enjoy first amendment protections.

Interesting tidbit: it’s not illegal to make your own guns in the US. You don’t even need a license.

Eh. With how tribalist American politics has become, it’s usually only a matter of throwing shit to the wall to see what sticks.

This may not stick, but if it does you can bet your sweet ass it will be a primary issue for democrats.

Jokes aside, why is this happening so much recently?

It’s cyclical and very well understood at this point.

A business will hire a bunch of people to meet demand and then lay them off to make the company’s earnings look better the following quarter.

At this point, I have no sympathy for anyone targeted by these layoffs if they work for a company that has been known to do them. Real ‘leopards ate my face’, vibes.