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Sometimes I wonder if those smart, imaginative people had just simply kept their horrifying hypotheticals to themselves, would those dumb enough to try to make one have actually thought of the idea?

And then I wonder how many smart, imaginative people have done exactly that with even worse ideas that I just don't know about.

I kind of doubt employers care, but it does seem like one of those things that will get your resume auto filtered by their AI screening check.

I don't know about you, but whenever I ask for recommendations on the Internet I always get at least some responses from people who didn't bother to read my requirements and are just pushing their favorite regardless of how well it fits. That's like a universal constant of the Internet.

There are benign animals. There are fish.

Will that include Facebook?

Spiders are welcome to the basement. Currently I've got one posted in pretty much every corner down there. Those guys are chill.

I'm also okay with out of the way corner spiders up near ceilings, but only if they aren't too big.

I mean sometimes it's 'let me suggest this foss alternative that doesn't actually do what you need it to do' and then getting mad that the user doesn't want to use a program that doesn't do what they need it to.

Currently I'm still able to buy the book and break the DRM, though that option is rapidly closing. I try to buy it elsewhere if possible, but it's often not.

Piracy is an option, but because the authors are so small, pirated copies can take months to become available, if they ever are. Also, I consider myself very knowledgeable in breaking the encryption for these files. I would be the person putting the upload out there if I was interested in that kind of thing. So if I'm having difficulty breaking the DRM, chances are high that nobody else has either. Or at least we'd be stuck with crappy OCR'd PDF copies instead of proper epubs.

At the end of the day though, as the consumer, exclusive content like this means I participate in the platform or I simply don't get access to that content. If it were simply a couple of titles, that's one thing, but it hurts when it's an entire genre. It'd be like being a fan of metal music, but 90% of all metal music was only on Spotify and nowhere else. It's horrible that a single company can control an entire genre like this.

I'm happy to leave Amazon, but it sure feels like Kindle Unlimited has a stranglehold on indie publishing. At this point I'm faced with sticking with Amazon or basically finding an entirely new genre to read, as 90% of the titles I like (litrpg) aren't available outside Amazon due to KUs exclusivity clause.

There's no way any costume that looks that good would only cost that much

It's an interesting strategy to infuriate the generation most primed to be a user of AI by using that to make it near impossible for them to get a job because of AI.

Feels like an excellent way to radicalize an entire generation against your product.

They really do seem to be going all in on AI and not leaving any escape routes for if it fails to actually enable an Elysium style future.

I mean there's not really an alternative so long as Democrats don't have any real power. It's difficult to fight people who feel zero shame and also control most mass media outlets.