To be fair to target most business is just talk when it comes to these types of things.

Consumers need to understand that corporate support for any particular initiative begins and ends with how it affects the bottom line.

Disney, Google, even Costco cannot actually care about any of these things. The corporate incentives do not allow for it.

Putin does anyway and thus so does Trump

I’m honestly surprised anyone does them anymore. No one who is happy will show up to those things just to lob soft ball questions so you’re guaranteed to get a bunch of negative soundbites.

I would argue it is part of their job to do this but the incentives don’t align at all.

Then whinging about messaging is hilarious to me. It’s not like they have ever been good at it it’s just their portion of the electorate has been eating lead paint and accepts basically anything.

They thought they paid their dues and Trump would leave them alone after some token bullshit and some “campaign donations” but Trump’s senile ass is causing them issues and they’re sour about it.

It does remain to be seen if Trump’s cult of personality will carry on after him. Will be interesting to see how all these sycophants will shake out when it happens. I’m not sure Vance will come out on top.

Who enforces those laws and will they do it within the decade?

He is now Peter Thiel’s stooge but it’s just as bad either way

It isn’t even that. He is just going senile and is surrounded by a bunch opportunists and basically just repeats whatever the last person said to him. The increasing simple (it was Always simple but seems to be getting worse) language he uses sounds like someone with dementia if you have ever encountered someone with it.

His speeches sound like a grandpa getting more and more senile. I’m convinced a lot of his supporters have never listened to one in its entirety.

Maybe the first movie but nearly every subsequent one is basically the jack sparrow show.

Yeah but as their market shrinks they are less important. Trump might watch Fox but he is 80 years old.

I don’t think the thinks about the people at all, only the money he will get to add various things to the exception list.

They must still have the old list of allies and adversaries.

Eh you can pay for YouTube or Netflix. They’ll still try to serve you shit quality and ads If they can get away it. It might be 4k but it’s probably at the lowest bit rate they can get away with while your device which is " powered by AI" makes up some shit to fill in the blanks.

Everyone wins!

They don’t care about performance, they care about cost.

There are two different customers here. The site wants to serve the absolute minimum required resolution they can get away with before the user goes somewhere else. This saves money on bandwidth and storage. The ad networks customers are the advertisers and they want their ad to be high quality and presented quickly so it’s harder for the network to trim the fat.

Right but shifting purchases one day forward or backward isn’t going to affect anything when business operates on the financial quarter.

It does send a message but it won’t hit then economically.

They already are

Exactly, this is just fishing for a bribe, just like the tariffs. Bribe Trump enough and your program or industry will get a loop hole or passed over for 6 months or whatever.

They can’t remember that far back. It’s why they worship Reagan but have no idea what he actually did.