SaltySalamander

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No. The 25th Amendment was written with John F. Kennedy in mind. Specifically, a John F. Kennedy that survived being shot but remained incapacitated/unable to do the job of President.

Translation: you feel that authors should go back to working a regular job.

Such as?

Don’t do it, mate. Ya’ll split for a reason. It never ends better the 2nd time than the 1st.

I can’t even figure out how to get someone I’ve not talked with in four years out of the primary position in Frequently Used on my contacts list.

Oh good, this isn’t a me problem.

Willful ignorance is still ignorance.

Oh you sweeeeeet summer child you.

$2m in a stock that pays a 6% dividend is 120 grand a year. Pretty easy to live comfortably off of that I would imagine.

What are these sites doing that gamifies watching content?

adding points and badges and achievements and all kinds of things designed to reward engagement with dopamine

Bluesky is also social media

So is Lemmy…

I’ll never unsee that

Now it just sounds like an early internet dating site.

Also a failed cryptocurrency.

Eh, it’s not the only country. There’s one other.

Because they are having less sex.

Customers can choose to not attend the concerts of those artists, but they won’t do that because they’re actually ok with paying the exorbitant prices. They demonstrate their approval of these prices to these artists AND to ticketmaster/livenation by continuing to pay these prices. Ultimately, the power to affect change lies with the customer and their wallet.

The customers can choose to not do business with them. If the customers aren’t willing to be mildly inconvenienced to affect change, they can pay the exorbitant prices they’re obviously willing to pay.

If anyone truly thought this DOJ was ever going to break them up, I do have a couple bridges I’m looking to unload cheap…

You do realize that they don’t actually know who runs the website, right? This is a lawsuit against a bunch of John Does. Nothing has changed, AA still exists, and likely will exist long after those lawyers doing the suing retire.