I like books but its media in a different form. It could be great or it could be trash. The book format says nothing. I’d consider someone who watches the YouTube channel Angela Collier as more educated than someone who has a bookshelf full of Danielle Steel novels.

Use of the word Lucifer to mean Satan predates Dante.

https://www.academia.edu/30735419/The_Use_of_the_Bible_in_the_Arengae_of_Pope_Gregory_IXs_Crusade_Calls_in_The_Uses_of_the_Bible_in_Crusader_Sources_ed_Elizabeth_Lapina_and_Nicholas_Morton_Leiden_Brill_2017_pp_206_235

Amway was founded in 1959.

You think they didn’t pay marketing consultants millions for that logo?

When your boss ranks you based on the number of tokens you burn, there’s no choice.

You’d be surprised how many left and liberal leaning people have come around to firearms recent

Liberals can have guns. They just can’t be seen in public with them without an uproar.

Meanwhile this guy gets paid speaking engagements and is treated like a hero:

Rule 0:

Don’t be seen with a firearm unless you are a white Republican.

Steam added DRM at the very start. And it was originally worse until the public pushed back.

You couldn’t play HL2 without online verification through Steam.

Telsa sales are up in Europe. People already forgot.

You could revoke authorizations. Which didn’t matter because until 2007 it didn’t need Internet activation.

That is absolutely not true. You sold your game with the key. Nothing about CD keys nor secure rom stopped this. The CD key gave the game the location of the specially stamped spot on the CD to verify it was the original CD. SecureRom kept people from selling copies. It did not stop selling the original.

The person who disagrees is too young to know that was ever possible. They have grown up in a dystopia so they don’t know the law is being broken or know that other countries, unlike America, stopped Steam from violating consumer laws.

Of course you don’t “own software” like you don’t own the right to distribute to reproduce a book you bought. This is about resale rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

The Supreme Court ruled and Congress ratified into law that once a copyrighted work is sold, the owner gives up the right to control resale. The specific case was book publishers who added a disclaimer that the book couldn’t be resold cheaply after purchase.

This is exactly what Steam prevents.

that he got rich doing what he loves

What he loved doing was taking away consumer rights and pocketing the profit as the one who did it the best. Before Steam, you actually owned your games and could resell them without asking anyone permission. Steam bypassed all copyright laws by saying, “But what if we sold a steam key instead of the game.” It’s the same “It’s not illegal if we do it on a computer” law sidestep that techbros learned from Gabe and copied.

Before Apple sold restricted ownership music and before Amazon sold restricted ownership books, their was Steam paving the way to our current economy where you own nothing.

Who is Bubba?

Every accusation is a confession.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanGate

That’s what the Big Moisturizer Conglomerate wants.

Begin new life with linux

22. Find a package you need.
23. It’s only distributed as a docker container.
24. Install docker.
25. Docker installs it’s AI assistant.
26. Install podman.

I’m not sure if Gemini is that much better or they slowly degraded Assistant. I distinctly remember being able to ask certain things of Assistant and a year ago it stopped working. Assistant was still there but many requests no longer worked.

An oscillating doormat sounds like a great invention. Step on it and it vibrates to rub dirt off your shoes.