I’m sure there’s a quid pro quo.

The content is good, so I support the content.

If all we ever do is hold purity contests over secondary and tertiary concerns, like the platform, we’ll never accomplish anything.

So, an innocuous supplement treatment, with multiple legitimate studies is the same as healing crystals? Got it.

Not everything in the world is horse parasite quackery.

My doctor did review the studies and agreed it was worth trying given the lack of known long COVID treatments.

You sound a little like me.

Give liposomal C plus L-Arginine a try.

There’s been some studies showing it helps with long COVID.

I feel a little improvement. Not great. Some.

The anti-trust pressure has increased with this administration. Lina Kahn has been effective at the FTC in bringing a number of cases forward.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/ is a very well executed newsletter with more detailed information regarding anti-trust if you’re interested.

Local motorsports in the US.

It’s a whack-a-mole of services which restream content, but the piracy services are also subscription based.

What about the small, local services that are just trying to pay the broadcast production bills and make a little cash to become viable businesses?

Fuck those people too?

Because these piracy services also affect them. These services restream the content taking away revenue from the small streaming services. In many cases we’re talking about volumes less than 100. So these restream services pop up, illegally use trademarks and copyrighted materials to advertise, and can reduce volumes enough that they are no longer viable.

Sometimes these things affect regular people trying to make life work too. Not just billionaire assholes who legitimately deserve the criticism.

Creativity takes inspiration. Somebody has to manifest the stepping stones on the path to a masterpiece. The magic of the internet is we get to watch it happen. We’ll rarely hear Beethoven’s garbage or see Michelangelo’s screw ups, but whoever did this…we get to see the stepping stone.

Many Americans (I’m one) cling to a variety of purity tests, and they struggle to grasp the bigger picture which could result in better outcomes for everyone.

Black or white. Win or lose. It’s a tiring cultural characteristic.

Yep. Incentives align differently for different people, which is what makes a healthy market work.