Yep, these people have "morals," if you can call them that, that are quite malleable. We're putting together a team of useful idiots who will be led by the most useful idiot of them all.
iowagneiss
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Well yeah, and now he's taking this move from Putin's playbook for Greenland. He's at the "people in Greenland would rather be US citizens" stage. Putin did the same thing in the beginning when talking about the territories in Ukraine he wanted to take.
More perennials. We've carved out space in the back yard for a row of raspberry plants. We've also cleared some wildflowers (RIP) for a self-pollinating cherry tree. It's going to have to overflow into the front yard if we want to keep adding.
They might be motivated by political views, fact checking, etc, but the subreddits I've seen discussing it (baseball, Iowa) are focusing on the fact that you need an account to see anything now. Screenshots from X would still be permitted; just not direct links due to the degree of interaction with the site required to view the material.
It's sound reasoning, in my opinion. X either links you to an actual source or is a short post easily captured in a screenshot.
But then I have to pay and care for a dog. I'll just not put myself in either situation.
My primary use is photo editing for a photography hobby. I shoot wildlife and upload photos to iNaturalist. I shoot sports for a local junior college and an adult baseball league.
I don't watch a ton of movies, but it also serves as my Plex server. I leave it off unless I want to watch something though.
There are games on it, but I rarely get that itch anymore. In my teens and 20s, 1000 hours a year would have been a slow year. It's probably more like 0-100 a year now.