it really feels like that not progressing past the loading animation all of a sudden has gotten worse. like yea, used to happen like once a week for me, but now it's probably once a day

But if you don't have the money for a photoshop license, learned photoshop, and don't want to pirate, this is a good middle ground.

Photopea is also a good solution

Photoshop is available for $20 a month on the annual Photography plan.

I think dad wanted some extra money one year and he took my brother and I out and delivered 100s of phonebooks in our area.

i think we got a season pass to 6 flags out of it, but i'm not positive

Not entirely surprising. Dustin (Destin?) from smarter every day tried to get some chainmail from India. Ended up being drop shipped from china

And, to be clear, it was falsely marketed otherwise. They only realized because it was still in the Chinese boxes.

That seems like outright fraud to me, but it doesn't seem like they're going to challenge it based on the video?

It is fraud, but it would likely be difficult and expensive to legally go after the company in India.

Lot of it comes down to where the factories are built. Building fabs is hard and expensive. And when the U.S. has assigned Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China, which in the oughts, ballooned investment in facilities over there and streamlined shipping... And not much else it was intended to do, but that suited the businessmen's interests just fine.

Why wouldn't the Indians pull a fake it til ya make it? Hell of a lot easier than actually doing the thing and competing... Even though that's kinda the whole point of capitalism. But we abandoned that long ago, and the Silicon Valley types and VC types in particular have sworn off it. Dollars and monopolies first. Competition (and lower prices therethrough)? Nah. A sucker's game they say.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_normal_trade_relat...

I guess I'm a sucker and an idiot, because my answer is simply "because it's wrong". Not to mention, illegal, and them not reversing the transaction only allowed the bad actor to profit.

I'm not excusing them, just like I'm not excusing a scam call center that steals from the elderly.

A scammer's easy answer is to say that everybody is scamming, not only them.

there have been video after video about how they aren't high quality. both on the software front and the build quality

also available on youtube. same channel

you can't. they don't give you a filter to show just friends. you have to slog through all the "recommended" posts

I didn't say to use a filter that they provide. It's your "user agent" - have it do your bidding.

I use FBP: https://www.fbpurity.com/faq.htm

>When Elon took over; the rules were clearly laid out: buy your checkmark for $7/month (not sure of the price). Pay and you get it; stop paying and you loose it. Everybody knows exactly what it means.

except then he was also randomly giving out checkmarks to people who didn't want them and specifically told him to remove them

i took that as more that the daily jackpot is won daily, but this bug saying they won the mega jackpot happened 14 times in 48 days

So maybe there are 13 other people in the same situation, except that they accepted the consolation prize? This may not be over... (and I would guess the decision here may well be appealed, anyway.)

It's possible, I suppose if there's a different mapping each day of the week then that would line up with 14 occurrences over 49 days if it only happened on weekends for example.

But my original interpretation is the cynical one.