If it was it still wouldn’t be in the top 10 of craziest shit he’s said/done

Pacifist hippie communes can have a little battle, as a treat

They have a free tier with 100 searches! It doesn't sound like a lot but I usually don't cross it.

I block all ads from all sites on the internet.

I pay money to the fediverse hosting foundation because hosting software costs money. I pay creators to create content because creating content costs them time and if they are going to do that thing, they need money.

When I win the lottery, I’m gonna start a pacifist hippie commune and call it The War Room.

Might raid the English on weekends, though.

No, but if you DON’T want ads then they need to get money from somewhere?

I RARELY use YouTube

It costs money to maintain software?

Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from training phases for Kimi K3.1 Pro "to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness" (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

https://the-decoder.com/chinese-ai-model-kimi-k3-1-pro-is-closing-in-on-anthropics-claude-opus-5-5/
http://www.techmeme.com/261023/p19#a261023p19

Pls point me to more shows with Wife Guys. Recent ones I’ve watched:
Addams Family
Helluva Boss
Columbo

This is more reggae than the reggae dancing song from earlier. #totp

Most platforms usually start ad free and with no restrictions. That’s how they capture a chunk of the market. Then, once they have an established customer base, they typically introduce ads or a subscription so they can actually pay for the hardware and bandwidth the service runs on.

This is what YouTube, Google, and pretty much everyone did. It’s the standard play book.

One-time fees are not feasible for this type of business model. If the server costs are ongoing, meaning you have to pay for the user’s usage constantly, then you need to either constantly charge them too or take money out of your own pocket to subsidize it.

A one-time fee would have to be absurdly high (think hundreds of dollars) to take into account multiple years of usage, otherwise it’s too risky and you’re most likely losing money.

This mindset that subscriptions are all evil when hardware and bandwidth are billed to you every month/year is ridiculous.

Kagi at least is honest from the get go and never tried to trick customers into believing their service would be free forever. That’s what’s actually shitty behavior, when companies put out a product that they then enhsittify for the purposes of extracting profit.

Kagi was a subscription from the get go and told you that’s how they pay their bills, and in return you get the service they promised with no compromises. I’m not arguing whether the price is fair, but at least the business model is honest and doesn’t try to take advantage of me and my data.

I’d pay for it if their $5 a month tier wasn’t so limited

Youtube also didn’t have a subscription option back in the day, and it also limited the length of videos you could upload. Things cost money to run, and something on the scale of Youtube costs a lot of money to run.

Now to be clear, I don’t pay for Youtube or watch ads, but that’s more because I object to directly giving Google my money with how much value they already generate just tracking and selling what browsing habits I am unable to obscure from them. If there was an option to pay Google $5-10 a month with the enforceable assurance that it came with absolutely no personal tracking and data collection, I would strongly consider it.

Naah. People actually paying for the crspnis what drives it. YouTube was ad free backing the day. And when they allowed adds. It was intentionally to create an annoyance that they cooked profit from- so that when they offered a add free, they could ALSO profit from.

A one time fee, I understand. A monthly rate to use a web browser is shameful.

This attitude is why the internet is full of ads. Doing shit for free doesn’t happen on an empty stomach. I’d rather pay a fair price for software and services I use. I’m not saying anyone’s pricing is fair, just pointing out I don’t agree with this behavior.

Senior commander says Space Force needs new spaceport by 2030

Space Force considering options: public-private, federal installation, state land.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/senior-commander-says-space-force-needs-new-spaceport-by-2030/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@cwebber @jalefkowit also, they are incredibly stressed out and visibly in a flop sweat