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Yes, they can choose to either NOT be a professional artist, or to work with Live Nation and Ticket Master.

It's one, or the other.

Monopolies are the opposite of choice.

Interesting that they allowed these two issues within the same piece of propaganda, considering these are the same class of people who enabled the elite to entirely remove any politics relating to the improvement of material economic conditions for working class people from public debate, or elections, and replace it entirely with the politics of culture war.

This is public record due to their financial reporting obligations as public company, but their password sharing crackdown resulted in not insignificant amounts of new subscribers.

Or at least, there was meaningful growth that occurred in time periods that aligned with those policies going into effect.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/business/netflix-password-sharing-results/index.html

It's kinda like atheists who pray during bad turbulence, might as well give it a shot.

Uh I'm pretty sure they offer trauma counseling to all those contractors.

I mean, sure, it's from a sub-contracted provider, TraumaBots (powered by ChatGPT 3.5), but I've heard only 36% of TraumaBot's patients end up killing themselves.

So... I'd call that a win/win.

Wait....you don't audit every package and dependency before you compile and install?

That's crazy risky my man.

Me? I know security and take it seriously, unlike some people here. I'm actually almost done with my audit and should be ready to finally boot Fedora 8 within the next 6-8 months.

I'll wait for the financial analysts that I both trust, and I know hate Musk, before I have any confidence in answering that question.

But... my best uninformed guess is that it's less fanboy worship, and more fear that Musk is the only thing propping up the insane stock valuation.

I'm assuming that Musk has a complex web of possibly illegal and highly engineered financial instruments that keep that stock pumping, or at least, not crashing - yet.

Maybe those who voted to approve might be aware, or involved, in that house of cards and believe removing Musk would be akin to blowing on it.

But I'm just pulling all of this out of my ass, so who knows...

It might be as simple as the majority of Tesla shareholders who voted to approve, including the institutional ones, are really just submental morons.

I don't think they're making a moral argument, but pointing out the reality of the situation as it stands.

This is a problem that can only be fixed through legislation and aggressive enforcement backed by large punitive actions.

Until that happens, it's better to acknowledge and understand the reality of the situation, than to believe that a morally righteous condemnation will somehow unmake that reality.

It sucks. I agree with your philosophical stance, except for the payment for personal data, as I'd prefer a complete opt-out. However, none of that changes where we're at right now.

lol.

Just search for Purism customer support experiences.

I'm honestly amazed there hasn't been a fraud, or some other consumer protection type criminal investigation.

All that baggage, and their hardware is also laughably outdated and overpriced.

Which is unfortunate, because the concept is amazing and clearly there's a sizable market for it.

Here is an example of just ONE flavor of Purism customer experiences:

Announce current gen hardware and current pricing.

Customer pays

Customer receives hardware 5 years later, after being told approx. 362 times that cancellation refunds are down, or unable to be processed.

Customer tries to immediately return the 5 year old laptop that was just delivered and is told "No Returns"

There are other variations that you can read about on various forums.

Every LG and Samsung major appliance I've had has broken within 5 years.

Refrigerators, washing machines, and dryers.

Prior, I only ever had 80s era American tank energy hogs. Switched back to American brands in the last few years, so too soon to tell if they'll work out better...

Here's to hoping.

Oh, and having dealt with LG warranty for both electronics and major appliances, I'll never buy another LG product that isn't a monitor.

LG monitors are the only higher end LG product's I've owned that have survived well past the warranty date.

I maintain one baremetal Windows install that gets fairly regular use. It's on a major OEM business class workstation with a legit Windows 10 pro license.

Recently, I had to wipe and reset and goddamn do they try and trick you into choosing all the worst spyware settings AND even if you successfully duck and weave past them, they'll just cheat and enable them, or reinstall shit like co-pilot during an update.

They just made me sign into that shitty M365 app to install a legit subscription of Office, and on the next reboot, it converted the local user account into an online user account.

Make no mistake, Recall is going to be enabled by hook, or by crook, for the vast majority of Windows 11 users in due time. No matter how many times they disable it, or opt out.