This particular sleaze is definitely male perpetuated and worth calling out. But shittiness knows no gender (or age or ethnicity for that matter.)

Ya, but one is shit.

Excuse me while I cry for the email marketers.

How is Amazon preventing customers from signing up? How even could they?

What he is saying is that he doesn’t get the customers email from the sale, to which he’d start to send marketing emails. You know, what pretty much every company does when you buy something.

“Not being exposed to me, the ‘artist’” is a perfectly valid reason, and one I would agree with. But the mailing list excuse rings hollow to me.

Mailing lists are most certainly not all opt-in. Take one look in your junk email box.

I fully support this artist/business owners desire not to be sold on Amazon without permission. However, citing the reason of not getting to market to his customers is pretty weak imo, paints him as just another capitalist, and I lose whatever sympathy I had.

To paraphrase Homer Simpson:

“…the cause of, and solution to, all life’s problems.”

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I legitimately cannot tell the difference between 1080 and 4k, however I do wear glasses.

But 720 feels like garbage to me.

bluray and piracy

I feel like that was implied in my comment ;-)

Hell, OLED and high bitrate 1080 is probably good enough for me for the rest of my life.

Kagi AI is opt-in. As in, you don’t go out of your way to use it, you won’t.

Buddy, your grandpa got the same thing wrong 90 years ago.

Love it. No subtext; guess he’s tired of people using *Born in the USA” at face value.

There is one, Mobilizon

Well, it’s clear he’s still republican because even in his statement he makes it about him.

“I did not sign up for this.”

I think it’s good he saying something, but dropping out of the race doesn’t do anyone any good. Run as a Republican in vocal opposition or as an independent, then there will be action behind his words.

That was the opposite. The FBI got in, but without Apples help.

Modern might-wing pop country is just rap for people afraid of black people. And much like their ‘patriotism,’ is superficial and in name only.

I liked The Dixie Chicks then, and like them now. Her statement has aged well, and the response to it hasn’t. But their music wasn’t particularly woke or progressive in the way Guthrie’s was or Hellas’ is.

There is something satisfying about critique coming from what conservatives would consider ‘their music.’