thedirtyknapkin

oh wow, i thought for sure it came later. i should stop making snap comments when m waking up.

no one cares about the plights of those living in backwater stone age dictatorships. the modern world must move forward on its own.

we Americans have to get used to being left behind and left out of conversations by real adults now.

there were very very very few platforms where you could post and share streaming video online when YouTube was new.

it was certainly the only free option. the internet was quite young then if you don't remember.

other platforms rose up around their success, but I'm pretty sure YouTube was more or less unique when it started.

yeah, you certainly can spend more and get better, but most media consumers don't actually care about long term storage like that.

i only know the pricing on those drives because i just had to replace one in a nas device. i only spent money on a nas device because i work in media and need to keep large files for clients. i follow a 3-2-1 backup system because my job depends on it, but it's not at all necessary to enjoy media.

lmao, buddy you can get a 10tb hard drive for like $200 and fit all the pirated media you want on it. that's less money than two mainline subscriptions for a year.

the VAST majority of data hoarders are pirates. very very few actual spend fortunes on their media collections. that's why everyone is dogpilling you. it felt like you were attacking a strawman of the average user here and they feel the need to correct you about their nature.

it's not about pirates feeling moral or superior. it's about you being wrong about data hoarders.

ok, did you read the body of the post?

did you try clicking the link? titles aren't meant to convey all relevant info.

would only work if buying in full and would still require a messy title transfer and taxes when he gives the vehicle over.

the best way would be to have the non-buyer do the first part then the person that actually wants it do the second.

that said, it would still probably give you a big hit to your credit score unless buying outright, and if you can afford to buy the cat in cash you probably don't need to be running two man cons for a discount in the first place.

sure, but if the us doesn't china will.

no they actually do explicitly say that in the show.

it's in drum island. it's roughly what the old doctor told chopper it meant and then luffy agreed.

some additional relevant statistics

united states barely saw 1% growth year over year and are projecting that growth to continue to slow.

India has nearly 3x the users of the United States. the u.s. is still second because it's the country it started in, but it's not far ahead of the 3rd and 4th place countries. India is an extreme outlier.

unfortunately they don't break down the age demographic by region, but I'd bet that if we specifically look at daily active users in the United States the age demo would skew much older.

so, it seems like it's similar to what many fast food restaurants have been experiencing lately. the growth opportunities in the United States dried up so the decided to push like hell everywhere else. i bet the growth they saw in India over the last decade was explosive. probably bigger than anything they had ever seen before. bigger than when it was still growing in the u.s.. meanwhile they project that over the next decade in the u.s. they'll see maybe 8% user growth and that's pretty optimistic.

so we probably won't actually see much Facebook marketing in the u.s.. the only way they can capture more u.s users is by buying more apps, like when they bought Instagram.

this does seem to imply that the part of the world where Facebook has become a fact of life is very specifically India. I'm sorry to hear that for them.

it's it's gotta be something very difficult that no one has ever fund before.