And the response from the public was apathy. There were third party candidates or even people voting “none of the above”. And it affects downballot initiatives and races.

Yeah, but people went back to Trump.

If you had enough organization to implement a general strike, Trump wouldn’t be president.

It is kind of descriptive…

If this was independently owned, what likely happened is that the owner hired a company to do this, then lost the documentation of how to change it or just forgot how to do it. When it came time to change prices, they didn’t know what to do, so they just taped prices on.

He cited how another company works as defense for his decision in his company.

And social media companies don’t meet together in secret meetings to strategize how they’ll collude with each other. A lot of times, they are making independent strategic decisions that happen to align.

Jeroba would default to .ml because the devs also admin the instance.

That’s different. Spez banned third party apps because he thought there was significant revenue loss from having users use third party apps. What money is he losing if his subs don’t link to X?

No, but a ton of people got AOL and Prodigy email addresses at first because they got an email address with their account.

And he has turned over Mastodon to a non-profit company which should be able to gain more resources to develop Mastodon.

I feel like Mastodon is the only one who did things right.

I don’t see why Spez wouldn’t like it. His mods are banning linking to a different social media website and he can claim plausible deniability.

https://youtube.com/shorts/VJtV2UkU-Fk

Each country is different, but you are going to have to look at how you can immigrate to certain countries. Some countries let you apply for jobs beforehand, other countries only want you to get a job after you move.

Not going to a wedding after saying you would is effectively for this is effectively cutting him out of your life. If you are willing to cut him out of your life, don’t go to the wedding. It just sounds like a rash decision.

No, but you need to know the basics of how a computer works to program. And if you are interested in computers, you are going to learn how they work.

It’s like saying people don’t become car mechanics because you don’t have to hand crank your engine any more.

I look at it more as most people don’t need to know how to do basic car maintenance because cars and the systems surrounding cars are designed to where you don’t need to know how to do basic car maintenance to drive a car.

People can learn to program, but the vast majority don’t have to know the basics of how a computer works to use one. Because of that, the vast majority of users aren’t going to have the drive to learn to program.

People didn’t want to pay for it.

Yeah. Super Mario Bros. 3 cost $50 on launch. This inflation in game price is horrible!

College computer science courses have had to go back to teaching students what computer files and folders are. A lot of computer programs have simplified themselves as ease of use overtook features as a driving factor for use.

Most people don’t know how to program because they don’t know the basics of computing.