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skinnymuch commented on X begins rolling out 'About this account' location feature to users' profiles   techcrunch.com/2025/11/21... · Posted by u/xqcgrek2
tguvot · 21 days ago
all big companies that need to deal (block) with vpn know how to identify vpn. it's not new.
skinnymuch · 9 days ago
Weird. The sites that block standard vpns don’t block the residential IPs I used to buy. Nor did they seem to know I was on using them. I don’t get how they would be able to know.
skinnymuch commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros   about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Thorrez · 10 days ago
It depends on your definition of "charity". If you're talking about Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, Wikipedia says:

>The organization states that it is the official U.S. charity authorized to collect donations for IDF soldiers.

>Charity evaluators have generally rated the organization favorably.[9]

>The organization is recognized as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charity in the United States and has been tax-exempt since July 1983.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_Israel_Defense_...

skinnymuch · 9 days ago
Would you consider a “charity” for Nazis or for an org that has killed and maimed tens upon tens of thousands of children to be a good thing or even charity?

The listed criteria for what they evaluate is not what the issue is. Did you check Charity Navigator? An org that focuses on abusing kittens will be evaluated as good by them as long as its governance is by the books.

Wikipedia regardless is not something that should be cited directly when it comes to anything remotely political.

skinnymuch commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros   about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
lotsofpulp · 11 days ago
It’s nice to see business that rewarded customers with convenience win in the end.

Well, except for Netflix refusing their catalogue to be indexed in the TV app on macOS and iOS. I won’t pay for Netflix until they drop that anti customer practice.

If you want me to buy the video content you’re selling, it better be searchable in the TV app. And if not, there should be a better reason than you want to keep people trapped in the Netflix app.

skinnymuch · 11 days ago
That is super lame. I always assumed the TV app is the one that sucks on its own.
skinnymuch commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros   about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Maken · 11 days ago
The Ellison trying to buy WB was the younger one.
skinnymuch · 11 days ago
It’s all based on elder Ellison’s power and money.
skinnymuch commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros   about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
jodrellblank · 11 days ago
Nobody claimed otherwise. The claim was that he gave money to nothing except his own life extension fund. And you agree that he's given money to other things.
skinnymuch · 11 days ago
Ah I see my mistake. I had noticed grandparent being about charity and was responding to that.
skinnymuch commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros   about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
jodrellblank · 11 days ago
It's amusing but it's not true. From Wikipedia:

> In 1992, Ellison shattered his elbow in a high-speed bicycle crash. After receiving treatment at University of California, Davis, Ellison donated $5 million to seed the Lawrence J. Ellison Musculo-Skeletal Research Center.

> In 1998, the Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center opened on the Sacramento campus of the UC Davis Medical Center

> In 2007, Ellison pledged $500,000 to fortify a community centre in Sderot, Israel, against rocket attacks

> In 2014, he donated $10 million to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

> In 2017, he donated $16.6 million donation to support the construction of well-being facilities on a new campus for co-ed conscripts

> In May 2016, Ellison donated $200 million to the University of Southern California to establish a cancer research center: the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC

> Between 2021 and 2023, Ellison invested $130 million in the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and has pledged a further $218 million since then

skinnymuch · 11 days ago
You listed multiple sociopathic stuff. A western hegemony think tank is not a good thing. Giving money to a genociders is the opposite of good.
skinnymuch commented on X begins rolling out 'About this account' location feature to users' profiles   techcrunch.com/2025/11/21... · Posted by u/xqcgrek2
tguvot · 23 days ago
I believe Twitter shows if account uses vpn
skinnymuch · 23 days ago
How would you know a residential ip vpn is a vpn? Twitter won’t.
skinnymuch commented on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers   latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Barrin92 · 25 days ago
No, inflation is a monetary and political phenomenon. Companies cannot set prices arbitrarily, in particular not the fast food industry which faces what is probably the strongest competition on the planet. The entire restaurant industry does not collude on the prices of burgers.

In this particular case it's wage-push inflation. The lowest quintile of workers has seen very strong wage gains among other reasons because of tight labour markets and minimum wage legislation, which on the consumer side prices a lot of people out of the service economy.

skinnymuch · 24 days ago
You’re repeating generic right wing-ish talking points. Yet profit margins have increased. If your reasoning was correct, profit margins wouldn’t be increasing as they are.
skinnymuch commented on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers   latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
skinnymuch · 24 days ago
Then why are profit margins bigger? Supply and demand as the reason for profit percentage increasing margin makes no sense. I’d be interested in how you’d debate that.
skinnymuch commented on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers   latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
anonymouskimmer · 25 days ago
Thanks, it's actually been a few years since I've been to one.
skinnymuch · 24 days ago
I don’t think that person is right. If you’re price sensitive and don’t just look at the default [combo] prices then Taco Bell is still elite and known for giving you cheap ways to get calories.

They always have a combo that’s cheap and rotates monthly. And like you said they have a few cheap value food like Bean and rice burrito which is also one of my staples.

Also you’re supposed to use the apps if you’re price sensitive. I work outside all day and couch surf without access to a kitchen. I never look at the actual menu of any place if there’s an app available. Apps also let you see prices between different locations.

However almost everyone I see go to any place in the real world is always buying stuff just looking at the default menu prices.

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