It’s logical but it probably scares away some customers. That’s why the “just eat it” option exists. iOS gives you access to an enormous market and payments are slick and easy. Creators may want $5 but if they can get 30% less from 500% more people, it’s still a good business for them. There’s no strict reason why they must obsess over taking 100% of the sticker price. There are a million examples of businesses who are willing to accept a discount for high volume business.

It reminds me of gas stations that only accept ATM cards and not credit cards, because they don’t want to lose the 3% that credit card companies take per transaction. They’re trying not to lose that 3%, but it will inconvenience some customers and lose them some business. That could easily be worse than 3%.

So yes Patreon could say “go find a laptop and enter your credit card number in our web page” but there are people who won’t do all that because they expect to be able to pay with one tap. And businesses are on the AppStore because that great payment experience makes it super easy for them to convert customers.

It’s just not as straightforward as saying “fuck you Apple, I’ll take my business elsewhere.”

This is THE way that Apple gets any revenue from the enormous and highly successful app platform and ecosystem they created. They say “go nuts, make money on our platform, but share some with us in exchange for our maintaining that platform.” This is reasonable. Apple is providing a service to Patreon, and access to their tremendous user base. That ain’t nothing.

I agree that subjecting creator donations to the 30% is about the shittiest use case for this and I wish they would make an exception. But your post about how Apple is doing absolutely nothing here is garbage.

I really think this move blows and I wish they would reverse this decision and make an exception.

However Tim Cook didn’t wake up one day and wonder how he could fuck creators. Apple takes a 30% cut of all app transactions. This is how they benefit from the enormous and highly successful app platform and ecosystem they created. It’s not pure evil to say “hey use this platform all you want but you must share some of what you make there with us.”

It does suck that they won’t let creators off the hook though. This is like taxing rips.

I suspect she complained it was dirty because it had visible spots but their server is now turning that into “she needs it polished.” As a diner you have no way to know if something is just water spots or leftover detergent or leftover dirt. And frankly the server doesn’t have a way to know that either. The only reasonable thing to do is get them a new set.

Some animal abuse.

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Roberts and Gorsuch, at least, seem to know the long game and aren’t interested in playing full-on Calvinball with the tool of court precedent

Gorsuch voted to overturn Roe which was a fairly epic disrespect for court precedent.

In the end I think you’re right that gerrymandering benefits republicans more so they will continue to allow it. But I no longer put anything past this SCOTUS.

As ACB said “we’re not just a bunch of hacks in here.” And if she said it, you know it’s not true.

She asked for clean silverware? What a bitch.

Conservative: “We just think that laws should matter. These people are here in violation of the law.”

Liberal: “Our immigration laws are a mess though and don’t meet anyone’s needs. Don’t you think we should overhaul that whole system?”

Conservative: “Sure. We can agree on that. But before we talk about new laws, we have to obey the laws we have.”

Liberal: “Let me get this straight: we should take a law everyone agrees is totally broken, go out and fully implement it, by force if necessary, and THEN fix it?”

Conservative: “You don’t understand. This is about rule of law. You either respect the laws of this country or you don’t.”

Liberals: “Laws like Roe v. Wade?”

Conservative: “Well that’s not a law that’s a court ruling.”

Liberal: “I see. So that one loses on a technicality. But a completely broken set of laws gets you out into the streets, up in arms?”

Conservative: “Here’s the part where you call me a racist.”

Liberal: “…”

Conservative. “We just think that laws should matter.”

There’s definitely a breed of douche bag out there whose entire justification is “well I can’t quite afford the Rivian…”

If the decline was expected, that had already affected the stock price. If you look ONLY at what happens on the day that expectation is finally official, in writing, then yes it’s counterintuitive. But it makes perfect sense that if a huge decline was already built into the price, then that price would rise a little when it’s found out that the decline wasn’t as bad as expected.

Another way of saying it is that shares had already gone down because this was expected. When it wasn’t quite as bad as expected, they got a little bump back.

I know Russia has a proud tradition of marching its forces into the meat grinder en masse but fuck.

Thanks for noting this. People get all gleeful without knowing how connected everything is. The other thing I like to remind them is that fatcat bankers aren’t the only ones invested in the stock market. Regular people with 401ks or college savings set aside for their kid are exposed as well.

Apparently he’s also hugging the side of the gun where hot shell casings eject. I remember the gun people were all over these fools calling various fouls.

These numbers are just off Wikipedia but I wanted to refresh my sense of the proportions of America’s losses in the Vietnam War:

2,709,918 Americans served in Vietnam total with a peak of 543,400 at once, in April 1969.

Casualties:

58,281 dead, with 47,434 dead from combat (which means over 10k poor bastards lost their lives to illness and accidents - war is fucking ridiculous).

303,644 wounded (including 150,341 not requiring hospital care).

So if these numbers are accurate, Russia now has as many dead as America had wounded in all the Vietnam war. And remember, Russia is less than half the size of the US.

And they aren’t making any signs of quitting. It’s like they need to dispose of a whole lot of able bodied young men for some reason. How miserable.

It’s hard to fathom that Russians are just putting up with this.

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I agree the field is full of subpar sensationalist coverage. I didn’t find this case so terrible as such things go. People in the thread were all freaking out about how “It’s not really Alzheimer’s, it’s something like Alzheimer’s which we did to the mice! Nothing to see here!”

Which is an overreaction. On the one hand it should be obvious up front that mice cannot have actual human Alzheimer’s because they are fucking mice. So setting those semantics aside, something happened here, and people seemed disappointed that it wasn’t everything.

So I think both of our points are valid here. Yes, coverage of science is terrible, but anyone who wants to follow science should be prepared for some very incremental advancements.

It is in fact getting to be a bit of a hobby to mention Fahrenheit’s good points, just to see people wet themselves and complain when their worldview shatters.