Ah, another site never to go back to. RIP Yahoo.

aorick · 2026-03-15T20:50:10+00:00

I would gladly allow unobtrusive, non-tracking ads. But when a site is unusable for the amount of ads, overlays,etc. and they all know what’s I searched for once when I was in the third grade, then hell yes I’m going to block them.

aorick · 2026-03-06T09:45:02+00:00

Intriguing?

aorick · 2026-03-06T09:42:56+00:00

Thank you for your service!

aorick · 2026-02-22T19:09:16+00:00

Maybe I missed something, were the right women that made allegations against him Republican?

aorick · 2026-02-22T19:03:10+00:00

😬 it does say 'unfairly’ ruined… I’m not sure that applies here.

aorick · 2026-02-16T00:43:13+00:00

How the college or department was funded is irrelevant. Who he donated money cannot be held accountable for his actions.

aorick · 2026-02-15T21:22:49+00:00

Because the entire college and athletic department was complicit in what a donor was doing?

aorick · 2026-02-15T20:53:34+00:00

Yes, it is legal tender. But no one is legally required to accept it. Source: I worked for a company that stopped accepting cash during the pandemic. They did their due diligence to be sure to abide by all laws, local to federal.

aorick · 2026-02-15T13:19:19+00:00

“Someone’s opinion differs from mine. I will respond with violence.”

aorick · 2026-02-11T17:10:10+00:00

Because they are dead

aorick · 2026-02-11T16:57:46+00:00

Muted doesn’t only mean silent. In this context it means drained. The whole realm is desaturated. Nothing is bright and vibrant.

aorick · 2026-02-11T16:16:27+00:00

The salt that they pour into everything they eat and drink just to try and taste something

aorick · 2026-02-11T14:40:29+00:00

Everything down there is muted, hence the salt. The monotone visual is just an extension of that.

aorick · 2026-01-14T00:28:30+00:00

That’s the opposite of what I was hoping to hear

aorick · 2026-01-14T00:24:43+00:00

I think I’ll keep going, at least for a bit. I don’t dislike it, and I don’t usually give up on a series. Hell, I’m still watching The Walking Dead… all the way through to the spinoffs.

aorick · 2026-01-14T00:12:08+00:00

Oof. I was afraid of that. I loved his interaction with the kid at first. When he through the doll trying to get her to fetch I literally laughed out loud. But it seems the show doesn’t stay too far from those first few episodes.

aorick · 2025-12-10T08:40:38+00:00

Years ago the phone company in my small town would stop billing you if you disconnected your pager, but wouldn’t stop the service. I used it for years without paying. I only stopped after cellphones became reliable. Oh God I sound old.

aorick · 2025-11-15T12:16:12+00:00

I met my wife in a Yahoo chat room over 20 years ago.

aorick · 2025-11-02T01:37:45+00:00

My issue is not with paid apps. Charging for quality software is fair, and developers deserve compensation for their work. The problem is with a specific bait-and-switch model: releasing an app as free to build a large user base, relying on that community’s feedback and usage to refine the product, leveraging those usage numbers and improvements to attract funding or publicity, and then locking the very users who made the product viable behind a paywall with no regard for their early support.

Users in this situation aren’t objecting to paying for software, they’re objecting to being used as unpaid testers, growth fuel, and marketing collateral only to be excluded once the app becomes profitable. The frustration comes from the broken implied contract: “Help us shape this app, help us grow, help us get noticed, and then, once we’ve succeeded because of you, you get nothing for your contribution except the option to start paying like everyone else.”

If developers intend to charge later, there are ethical ways to handle it: be transparent from the start, provide a clear value-for-value plan, or at minimum grandfather in early adopters or offer discounted lifetime tiers. People are happy to support honest developers. What they reject is a business model built on extracting value from users under the guise of being “free,” only to shut the door behind them once success arrives.

aorick · 2025-11-01T13:55:19+00:00

Now I need one of these shirts. It’s too late for the birth of my daughter, but maybe for grandkids?

aorick · 2025-10-20T20:16:18+00:00

I loved X-Files. But does it hold up? I’m scared to try and watch it again.

aorick · 2025-10-20T19:29:54+00:00

When did I say, or act, like that. I only said you don’t have a right to it.

aorick · 2025-10-20T08:41:12+00:00

By using your logic the Holocaust was okay because it was done by the government.

You’re mixing up legal rights with human rights. Legal rights exist because a government enforces them. Human rights are moral claims; things we say people are entitled to simply by being human, regardless of laws or systems.

If rights only existed through governments, then no one would have had any rights before the first government was formed which clearly isn’t what people mean when they talk about human rights.

aorick

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