Nah, they just followed through on their own domination fetish.
People don’t want a king. They want a family head who cares specifically about them and would help them as they need.
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Virtually no software program internally cares about calendar specifics. Most computers are happy just counting seconds since the start of 1970 (Unix epoch) with some weirdos counting days since 1900 (excel) or some other arbitrary date (SQL server goes down to 1753, when the current Gregorian calendar was adopted.)
the big issue isn’t so much the software cost as the fight over finance. Does your $1000 a month rent go “down” to only $923 a month (same $12,000 per year) or does it “stay” at $1000 and your landlord enjoys the increased revenue?
(Agreed on dates. Either ISO dates or use some damn names for your months! Mar 19 2026 and 19 Mar 2026 are both obvious at a glance if for some reason 2026 3 19 doesn’t work.)
Comic book artists are not (all) fashion designers, so the artistic leeway that also lets them render imperfect images of humanoids in fight sequences also applies to the practicality of their costumes.
Presumably said costumes are donned piecemeal, similar to how the actual costumes of cosplayets and superhero actors are donned. Spiderman and deadpool look like they’re wearing full body sewn-on gimp suits, but are “really” just wearing some overlapping layers that the artist (usually) doesn’t depict.
(Except of course for things like the venom symbiote, mystique’s shapechanging, or those weird pseudo-nudists like hulk, silver surfer, and thosd green lantern freaks…)
BlueSky is a top-down approach to do the same thing that the Lemmy/Mastodon fediverse is trying to do bottom-up. They are approximately as untrustworthy as the devs and admins of your local fediverse server.
You absolutely should not trust any third party with private data that would destroy your life if revealed. Lemmy and BlueSky are both way better than Meta or Google, but they’ll all comply with government subpoenas and by design most of the data entered on these apps is public anyway.
As to funding, BlueSky says that they’re a “public benefit company” with some VC and cryoto-bro funding, a small registrar business, and some aspirational ideas about selling add-ons to support BSky as an ongoing concern.
I recall hearing about a merchandise sale they had for a bit that dwarfed their registrar revenue, but I think that was time-limited.
The largest “alt-sky”, blacksky, asks for donations if you use their services and (Iirc) aren’t a person of color.
There are a lot of books that were intentionally excluded from both the mainstream Jewish and mainstream Christian canons.
Professional therapy is expensive because most humans get along just fine with the amateur knock off.
If you already know that you’re trans, don’t have any other mental issues, and have family who aren’t transphobic assholes, you may be better off focusing your time and money on finding a supportive PGP for when social transition isn’t enough.
(Or, if you’re unlucky enough to live in a place where transphobic assholes have infected the government, maybe put that money to an escape plan.)
Wage theft as only “not paid what was owed according to current law” is already the biggest form of theft and the least prosecuted.
Please don’t help perpetuate capitalist exploitation by blurring it with the “value theft” inherent to capitalism
A bit late to the party, but… well…
If a streaming service has an ad-free tier, the ads shown aren’t really there to sell the things they advertise. Oh, sure, the buyer of the ad wants your money, but they didn’t pay a bunch to show you that ad and the revenue from the ad buy just has be “slightly higher than spam” to be worthwhile.
"Ad-Supported’ tiers exist to differentiate the higher cost points. Which is why the ads frequently aren’t aligned with natural break points in the video. And why in some cases it’s the same two or three ads shown for every artificial and clumsy break.
The ads you are seeing exist primarily as an advertisement for the ad-free tier.
China and India are also rather substantially less likely to portray a serial killer as a notable scandal deserving of infamy.
AFAIK they also have a less rights-respecting criminal prosecution system, meaning their native serial killers are more likely to be incarcerated or executed if identifed.
The NY AG doesn’t generally bring criminal suits. And “was a rapist in FL and a private island” may not be enough to give anyone standing to empanel a grand jury and indict.
If you live in NY and then take a vacation in Texas during which you open carry a AR15 and then “self defense” somebody at the Alamo who called you a Yankee, there wouldn’t be much NY could do if the local DA accepted your defense.