#ooc

I'm in love with free stuff as the next guy, but uhm.. wow. I don't think I have a right to the articles for free. I just go to sites that do give me one or two articles a day ffor free or whatever

uhg

fb?

Yeah.

Sadly, this is the kind of "I want free stuff" that undermined the Sanders campaign. It's one thing to expect tax money to go to helping all people, especially in things like education and health care...it's another thing to think you're entitled to get whatever you want for free merely because you want it.

Opponents used the image of the latter to tarnish the goals of the former.

Yup.

Yeah

there is a really whiny and annoying left wing fringe that pisses me off

they are super entitled, and very keen on RightThink. If you WrongThink, you are a bad person.

It's a tricky line to walk, figuring out how much social justice is too much.

Well, I firmly believe you don't have a right to not be offended.

And that disagreement != violence

Yep. I hate some of the PC stuff with a passion, on the flip side, trying to be nice is not the same as Political Correctness and being a douche isn't some noble endeavor.

Exactly.

And if you spew hateful stuff, "free speech" doesn't protect you from rebuttal, protest, or consequences

I do find doxxing attacks pretty gross, as a rule. And that shit happens on both sides. "Oooo, let's go spam their employer!"

It does.

Absolutely. I do think it's important that bad behavior be exposed to the sunlight, but there's a line.

It's just a pretty wiggly line.

Also true

But man, sometimes the most trivial things set off the horde

Also, both sides need to realize that there are forces that will try to take advantage of them

Indeed.

Companies are allowed to make money.

FFS.

If you want writers to make a living wage, there needs to be income

I whitelist if I can - depends heavily on how their ads are set up. I'd allow more ads if there were fewer sketchy and intrusive ones

I like donation boxes. Like, I drop cash into the chat because I like that chat.

...I wish there was a less expensive version of slack, though. Or a way to auto-archive.

Weird example... The reboot of the Ghostbusters... the Trailer was not well received. Not at all! What a lot of folks didn't know was that while yes, there were posts that were all 'Wimmen Busters?!! WHINE!' and other sexist tripee, but far more comments were about the bad FX, the less than funny lines looking unpromising, and other legit critiques. Well, the studio deleted the comments critiquing writing, or visuals.. and KEPT the Sexist ones so they could manipulate the social justice crowd to defend their product and make it so if you didn't like the trailer you were sexist. And..it worked

It's over $100/month with the current user base if we wanted to upgrade, and a lot of those users aren't active but they drive up the cost

....I thought the new Ghostbusters was fine. Holzmann was hilarious.

Yeah. I was speaking more of the youtube reaction.

So was dumb and pretty Chris Helms

also true

And the studio was manipulative.

Not the most manipulative thing in the last two years. That award goes to Gem and the Holograms (Which justly bombed)

OH

OH

MY BITTERNESS

Jem is a treasure and that movie was a damned betrayal

I didn't know that about the Ghostbusters thing. Huh. Pretty savvy response on the part of the studio.

Jem movie was a betrayal and I was just waiting for Transformers and GI Joe to come on back in the day 😉

Wanna talk betrayal? Land of the Lost, with Will Ferrell.

JEM is a savvy business woman, CEO, international superstar, model AND cool foster mom!

Only thing I've seen Will Ferrel in that I liked him in was Megamind

Not a mopey, sibling-betraying youtube singer.

You should see Stranger Than Fiction

Okay...I need to do day time human stuff.