Capitalism only functions when it can absorb the things that can be an alternative to it.
I live in Texas (a state that will go a certain way) and I will vote Dem. It makes no sense to me to help make a bigger gap between the Republicans and everybody else just because the Dems suck too.
The "principled stance" a protest vote makes only helps embolden the current political hellscape within my own state. If I can chip away at the Republican power structure, I will do it.
Yes, and I've been using beehaw less and less because of it.
I think it's like 3D movies. You will make some money off the people who buy into the gimmick, some more off of the people who remember and want the Razr again, and the rest acts as a kind of "hey we're innovating here!" commercial for the manufacturer.
It's a dumb gimmick, but it seems like capitalism is almost exclusively dumb gimmicks at this point.
I mean, sure, I'd rather not hear that much about it, but people are grieving. I'm sure it'll die down and people need room to work through their feelings.
Pro fighter = massive head trauma.
Qlab is vastly superior to any other live theatre show control software.
All that money and he can't even buy a brain cell.
If I remember correctly, that unintuitiveness is by design. From what I saw they seem really perturbed by the notion that it should function how most people use similar programs.
Gimpshop was a thing (where they moved the tools to make it look more like Photoshop) but the Gimp people got upset.
My favorite part of this whole thing is now that the right-wing grift-o-sphere has joined, Meta has their accounts set up so that when people follow them there's a pop up warning saying "are you sure you want to follow this person that frequently lies and violates terms of service?"
It's so satisfying watching these slimeballs having a big mad about "censorship".
Not a drag queen. Not a trans person.