Man, I'd love a liberal and NDP balance instead.

I wonder how that compares to flu shots.

We got both ours done at once

I think he's talking in general. But who knows.

This is alll I ever wanted from steam deck. Time to put my money where my mouth is

Man half the population wouldn't allow that. Call it socialism and scream about freedom.

Yup. You can see this kind of stuff happening with ads in things you buy.

There was a model of "ad supported" and "pay to own"

But some exec figured out you could do both and double dip.

There is no world in which things get more consumer friendly unless it's forced

And the hospitals that do have long wait times is also due to conservative government cutting.

The main difference is that if you built your product on their platform, you don't have the option to pick a different vendor for what you've already built like you would for subscriptions or eggs. It feels much more akin to extortion to me.

You built your product on their platform and agreed to the terms they set. Thats a level of commitment you put in. Them changing it afterwards is forcing you to agree to new terms that you wouldn't agree to if you weren't forced.

If the issue is using their servers, or keeping the runtime code updates, there should at least be the option of self hosting or locking into an older version.

Having said all that, I know very little about vendor contracts and don't doubt you when you say legally its the same as any other price change. It feels different because of the lack of choice.

Slightly related: all dogs are bots and all cats are girls

Not enough profit in it

This last one was named after a famous battle Droid

(But really the new strains seen are given greco alpha numeric names. There are a bunch of strains that get named that we don't hear about because they Peter out.)

Thank you for sharing it in this format. Makes it a lot easier to understand and parse.

I didnt grasp just how many felonies he's being investigated and charged for. It's wild