Unreasonable? Depends on what you consider reasonable. Yes absolutely they would try to exploit the users, in which case we go back to piracy. Perhaps a better solution would be federated content providers with some sort of combined (reasonable) fee determined by the providers collectively. We get one system to subscribe to, and pay one fee.

My utopia would just be a single reasonable paid service that provided everything. I pirate because its simply more convenient than 20 subscriptions.

This led me to watch the Eggless Omelette skit on youtube, and then came across this case of almost malicious compliance in the comments:

@jacoL8 6 months ago an excerpt from a Reddit comment:

This reminds me of a day when I was working as a kitchen manager. I had a server ring in one of our chicken dishes with a note: “cooked medium rare”.

I called the server over, and showed them the ticket. They asked “can we not do that?” And I said “We can. If they want to wind up in the hospital.” And I sent her back to explain.

The server went to the table, and told them chicken can’t be served undercooked, and the guest sent her back to tell us, “isn’t the customer always right?”

Hearing the conversation, the head chef exasperatedly took the ticket from my hand, walked over to the table and explained that chicken is not cooked like steak, and we are not legally allowed to serve undercooked chicken to them and they would wind up with it coming out of both ends. The guest agreed that would be a bad idea, and asked the chef to “prepare it how you usually would then.”

While leaving, the guest came up to apologize, and admitted that they didn’t cook at home and had no clue about the chicken, and that they were just trying to impress their date who had ordered a steak.

How dare we take a stand against genocide.

I’m on your side, good mod. Thank you for your efforts in combating real transphobia and not this nonsense.

Exactly, 100% agreed.

Key reasons why Muslims should be kept out of government.

Don’t vote for anyone who has affiliations with Islam.

Nope.

It can also definitely stand for Machine Learning which is the first thing that comes to my mind

Should be able to search all instances. If you know what instance your community is on, then you’ve already found it so… why search?

I just have to laugh.

Fuck reddit! I’m here now!