1. Astroturfing is trivial, they have a dedicated groups of people doing it and they do it everywhere it's their job
2. Maybe so, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't prefer it if Mozilla got behind Manifest V3

Mozilla doesn't need 80% of its revenue to do a good job of maintaining a browser codebase. So it's a good thing that that funding could disappear, Mozilla could fold like a lawn chair and the next open-source fork that everyone got behind would pick right up and probably do a better job at the core task than Mozilla is.

This idea that open-source software requires more than a dedicated contributing community is (one of many) memes created by the likes of Google and Microsoft in order to snuff out FOSS competition.

I'm convinced that 80% of all these threads and the responses within them are astroturfing by Google to cause everyone to despair that Mozilla is no better than Google and that there will never be anything that could be developed to compete with Google if Mozilla went under.

There's just too goddamn many of them and they're all filled with the same negative comments. It's just like the "no way bro, I love paying for YouTube why you gotta have everything for free bro?" bullshit from a few months ago.

No sense worrying about it then. I know I don't.

I believe there is a way. Nanotechnology helped along by artificial intelligence could conceivably bring material abundance to everyone. This would be a world dramatically reshaped. Humanity might not even qualify as the same species anymore.

Some people actually think that such a future is an inevitability; that it can't be stopped. Short of everybody dying in a fire of course.

It needed better talent. Thom Hartmann was the sole survivor because he's actually listenable. Randi Rhodes and Ron Reagan were just shit. But progressive talk can be done well. Stephanie Miller is hilarious when she has the right crew, but she has a penchant for self-owning. She gave us John Fugelsang, who is just brilliant.

I watch too much MST3K. I couldn't understand why having a warm backside was the opposite of Kool-Aid.

That sounds like communism, Florida won't have any of that. The glorious free market will surely fix all things.

🎵You allll everybody!🎵

this whole thing took me a while to process, ngl

How can $15 million be considered a lot of money in a month when Diablo 4 has made a billion dollars in just over a year? I mean, that's a factor of 10.

I could also ask how it could be possible that Diablo could make a billion dollars despite pretty much everyone saying it sucks? And then what might the logic be in subsequently firing all the people who made it?

But I digress.

So... this is great and all, but how come the senate will confirm any Biden appointments? One would think these days it would just be business as usual to deny all appointments if you control the senate. They face no repercussions for anything these days it seems.

I feel this way about all the meddling and bullshit that state actors are doing - Russia, China, Iran - are you really fucking certain that this isn't going to fuck you in the ass worse than you've already been fucked? Really?

The delicious irony is that they now get to live in the world they helped create.

Seeing as how Trump publicly announced his intention to throw him in prison for life, maybe he ought to be thinking a little bit about self preservation.

What? This writing is gold, Jerry! Gold!

I've literally never seen any of these except the top symbol.

Nope! Gotta keep our eye on 2028!!!!

You forgot to escape.