piskertariot

TD Bank (the 10th largest bank in the US) was fined 3BN USD for their role in an international money laundering scheme in Oct of this year.

They gotta make that money back somehow.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/td-bank-penalties-1.7348819

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-kldqXZlwk

Trump told Gretzky to run for Prime Minister?

This guy just putting pepperoni on the chess-board and calling it a mate. And somehow, he's the leader of the free world?

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/554/866/4da.png

Dark patterns will eventually force advertisements into anything that reliably catches your attention.

I stopped paying attention to notification icons ages ago, and I haven't missed any important notifications.

Billionaires who own the means of production trying to own the means of communication as well.

When they can't, they'll own the government, and outlaw it.

It's like poetry.

You own what is on your machine, that you save locally.

Some companies believe they control the internet, but they do not. They control what is on the computers they own, that they save locally. Sometimes that is information that users have shared. That is their choice.

Classic actions of a horrible company doing horrible things.

"It's for the safety of the children"

Steam, Spotify, Discord. Whoops, all Chromium.

There's still the step where Youtube has Spotify level ads. Whatever the visual equivalent of bait-and-switch-fav-song/LISTENTOMYPODCAST/oh-god-are-those-sirens-behind-me is.

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The title refers to him as a soldier, but all I see is a bitch carrying a polka-dot bag being angry that people make their own decisions.

I would challenge you to find a modern automobile manufacturer who doesn't make their logo huge and illuminated. Also, you can no longer remove them, as they're often now build into the body-work or grille .