You’re absolutely right!

Nearly gave me a god damn heart attack before I got to the end. Thanks now I don’t need coffee.

I mean yeah, I would answer your statement as “yes”. But I would prefer to challenge a fundamental assumption within your question, “suffering is good”. Suffering is neither bad nor good, it simply is. Without the experience of suffering, experiences of non-suffering would lose some or all of their meaning. Without winter we cannot appreciate summer, and vice versa.

Yeesh I didn’t realize there were so many. Damn. That quote was all I knew off the top of my head. Definitely more than just implying.

Not to give the turd any credit, only correcting because accuracy is important. “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” Speaking in reference to her physical appearance. Fucking was very clearly implied but implied nonetheless.

The energy is the same either way. Nasty shit.

Definitely the symbology aspect, fresh rose petals are inconvenient as hell. I did the bed thing for my girlfriend one year for our anniversary but used fake fabric petals. No sticking, and I saved them for the next occasion. Your points are exactly the reason why I did that.

Here is a personal favorite of mine. Silence brands everywhere.

The greeks would love to have a word with this chart.

Agreed, MS and Google are pretty much on the same plane with regards to company ethics.

Makes sense that it becomes a serious trade-off with usability the more a company tries to DIY. The risk aspect is certainly hard to get around. Seems that a solution to this problem would have to be long-term. Any company that has competed with AWS in the past, afaik, has been purchased and absorbed. It would likely require the creation of a nonprofit with a guiding directive to prioritize keeping the organization independent and never being sold. But I’ve seen that sort of thing fall apart and go off-mission in other industries too.

Considering the above, the only other thing I can think of is a regulating body declaring AWS as a monopoly and forcing them to split. The chances of that happening in the current administration are probably near zero.

Shit sucks, though I appreciate your response.

That’s interesting. I have to think more about this but it certainly makes sense, I certainly don’t feel 100% pure male based on… many things. Thank you for explaining.

How is everyone a tiny bit trans, as you say? Genuinely curious since everything else you said resonates quite strongly with me, I’m just not sure what you mean by that point in particular.

I know. I’m not a web dev nor do I know anyone who is to convince otherwise, to use other services. AWS dominance is undeniably huge. If you know a way to combat that (alternative infrastructure) I would be happy to hear it, and I will share that alongside what I already tell people. Again I’m not well-versed in that space, but my understanding is that AWS is essentially the only full-stack solution that’s also highly scalable. Open to correction if I’m wrong here.

I haven’t given a god damn dime to amazon since 2020, ever since I learned about the piss bottles. I’ve asked (and assisted) others to do the same. What else do you expect someone to do? Speak for yourself asshole.

Alright you make fair points. Easier than multiple menus but yeah, why the hell do they keep rearranging? It feels like an engagement mechanism to make you spend just a second longer on the page or accidentally click something else due to muscle memory.

This is the opposite of infuriating. Do you know what is? Having to poke around all four corners and then scroll down to figure out where the latest update moved the shit I’m looking for. This isn’t very clean I’ll give you that. But it’s still 1000% better than buttons all over the place.

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Loric as fuck boiiiiiiiiiii

Speak for yourself. As a proud Nazi-Hater descended from generations of Nazi-Haters, you are acting fucking insane. This is a valid question.

Yum, a nicely mixed word salad! Lmfao