So how exactly were you planning on them making money if they don’t take money from Google to be the default search engine and they don’t take money to place advertisements on the default home page?

Bottom falls out on commodity made artifically rare through imperailism and corruption. Is this the part where I’m supposed to feel bad for De Beers?

The old food court had a restaurant with a franchise owner who was trying to charge more than the corporate set pricing. Because he didn’t have the graphics for the menu and probably was doing this without permission, the only way to increase the price was to put a sticker over the actual price.

I think in 2025 the republicans would say that’s Biden’s fault.

“Why would I vote for a primary party candidate who supports ranked choice voting when I can just throw my vote away on a third-party candidate that will never be elected? I’ve got principles!”

You haven’t been looking hard enough, and hollywood doesn’t cast them anymore. I work with someone who is 23 and looks like she’s 38, I expect she’s going to look the exact same age for the next 25 years.

Hair cuts and clothing also make a huge difference. They had her dressed like a late 80s mom.

Yes, because the infrastructure that Proton hosts their service on is “infinite”. Everyone knows that Amazon charges the same price to reserve one instance of EC2 as they charge for reserving 10,000.

What exactly do you think the “cloud” is composed of? Fairy dust? It’s composed of all sorts of finite things - servers, storage, networking, electricity, etc. etc. etc.

Welcome to literally everything? It’s called volume-based discount. Just like if you buy a box of cookies from the grocery store, you’ll pay a fuckton more than if you buy a pallet of cookies from the exact same company.