Sony owns the blu-ray format. I’m worried.

A small boulder the size of a large boulder

Exactly. Allowing Israel to compete is an endorsement of their atrocities as it lends them legitimacy and a platform to present their country in a positive light.
But I guess taking a stance against genocide isn’t reason enough to lose their biggest sponsor, Moroccan Oil, an Israeli company.

As a big fan of Eurovision, it pains me to boycott the contest this year but I can’t stomach the thought of endorsing mass-murderers.
The EBU banned Russia from competing after their invasion into Ukraine (after a lot of public outcry, I must add), so why can’t they ban Israel as well? If the problem is they “don’t want Eurovision to be political”, well tough luck, it already is and has been from the very start.
The answer, of course, is money.

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Definitely skipping that update then. Thanks for the warning

This is classic greenwashing. It’s the smallest possible gesture a soda company can make to show that they “care about the environment” while not making any actual change to be more eco-friendly.
Same thing with those awful paper straws. Are you really asking me to believe that a massive burger chain can neutralize their footprint by giving you a straw that turns soggy in minutes? The straws were never the real problem, but it’s the smallest possible step they can take to seem eco-friendly.

Yeah totally. In fact, I’ll be playing a live Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson tribute set next month so I’m thoroughly immersed in that music at the moment

Is your username a Porcupine Tree reference? They’ee one of my favorite bands!

Which search engine do you use?
I’ve started to use Duckduckgo but it’s a bit hit and miss.

The total annihilation of the advertising industry is on my utopian wish list.

Also, don’t greenlight 100 shows if you only plan on giving 5 of them a second season, and you base that decision entirely on algorithms instead of genuine human feedback.
And please, for the love of god, let me look at a movie for longer than 1 second before you start automatically playing it because your almighty algorithm determined that it would force users to pick a movie faster. It’s the most annoying “feature” that makes me inclined to avoid Netflix as much as possible.

It worked just fine in Infinity and on a desktop browser, never in the official Reddit app. But I guess Reddit couldn’t stand the fact that a free, ad-free app worked better than the official app.
Also Lemmy loads WAY faster than Reddit these days

I somehow doubt the real Margot is an avid Android tech enthusiast

I think the bigger a corporation is, the more shitty things it had to do in order to reach that status.
There are some good companies with a moral code, but they’ll never become competitive with the big dogs in our current capitalist system.

-30 °C here in Norway. Going outside hurts

You’re right, copyright laws were written ages ago when mass media was exclusively owned by big media companies. If there was ever a copyright dispute, the company’s lawyers would meet up with the other company’s lawyers and either settle or go to court, and both parties could easily pay for the legal fees because they were, you know, big media companies.
But nowadays everyone can simply upload something that can potentially reach billions of people, which is unprecedented in human (or legal) history, and the legal system simply hasn’t caught up to this radical shift in the status quo. This is why Youtube has to compromise between the big media conglomerates with expensive lawyers and, well, the rest of us.

But… But everyone having a right to medical care whether they’re rich or poor? Unthinkable! Think of the shareholders!

Australia is the land of novelty

Metric cans are almost always either 330 ml or 500 ml. Anything else is a novelty