My guess is someone saw what was being built and said “hey, we can build something similar and sell it”, hence the C&D.

or they make it a giant pain in the ass to unsubscribe

Which is why I’ll never subscribe to SiriusXM again. I won’t even take it for free. You can sign up for whatever plan you want online, but to cancel you have to call (and it’s not 24/7) and listen to ten minutes of “but what if I offered you X service for $ per month? and gave you a month free? Don’t you enjoy the service we provide? Let me put my supervisor on the phone so he can try to convince you not to quit us.”

I think in California there’s a law that if you can sign up online you must be able to cancel online, which pisses me off even more because Sirius could do this for the whole country but they’d rather drag and guilt people to get them to stay.

if I understand correctly, he’s arguing that since consoles are sold at a loss and the store has to make up the difference, Epic is ok with the 30% on the console stores. But Google and Apple charge full price for hardware so 30% for the google or apple app store is just being greedy and Epic’s not OK with that.

Hostages are variables that Hamas controls and Israel must respect. They can be used as chips to barter with, shields to hide behind, and tools to shame the Israelis in the court of public opinion.

There’s one for Tim Scott too. potential future astroturfing, I guess, but I don’t care. Block Community is my favorite button to click today.

Not surprised that the governor who went doctor-shopping for an anti-vax surgeon-general would also find an anti-worker religious figure to speak on his government’s behalf.

I hope this entitled cunt has to pay for sex for the rest of his life/

Where the hell do you put the flamethrower? inverse Chesty

Some of these sound like ship names in The Culture.

The Venn diagram of people who own > 3 guns “for home defense” yet think Ukraine should just let the invaders keep their gains is probably highly overlapped.

I dunno. I usually give platelets.

A lot of them now just work through third-party houses like govdeals.com.