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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • This’ll end up just like the Microsoft/Netscape Navigator antitrust suit where Microsoft got broken up and sued out of existence for trying to suffocate Netscape Navigator by denying it access to the Windows Operating System. Netscape, originally the underdog, super-won and turned into Mozilla which is now a multi-trillion dollar company that provides a shining beacon of consumer rights done right.

    Oh wait, I just remembered: Netscape died and barely anything changed—only the public ever really loses. Billionaires paying thousands of dollars in fines to fight for their turn to shit on their customers.



  • Consider that the energy output of a 12-gauge shotgun is approximately 4500 Newton-meters and, from personal experience, can rotate a first-gen iPad at an extrapolated 240 rpm (extrapolated as this proved difficult to sustain). That gives us an equivalent of 113 kW! A modern ipad would only need about 13 kW to charge in one second.

    So, one shotgun shell could easily charge yours and 7 of your friends ipads instantaneously, although the results are difficult to appreciate.



  • I can identify with that entire statement except for the last sentence. Hell, I’ll accept “cuz it’s Tuesday” as a valid reason for piracy.

    My generation paid a lot for the type of shit that many of y’all take for granted and I think that’s fucking fantastic. In fact, let’s face it: my generation paid more than enough. Y’all should be stealing everything isn’t already given for free by the corporations. If the BaCk iN my DaY squawkers wanna keep paying the poor innocent execs, then fine.

    For everyone else, if it ain’t nailed down or owned, take it. And if someone hoarded more than they could use in 10 lifetimes, eat them and then take everything. We should never forget what’s been taken from us and it’s pretty much your duty now to take it all back.

    This isn’t thievery, this is the fucking bill coming due.