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  • Streaming was very much the term used to describe watch instantly language (like all language in the UI) wasn’t random, it was the result of continual testing and optimization. The entire set of activities was new for a lot of people, and the company tested variants of everything all the time. I can’t remember too much about this specific device/UI combo, but probably watch instantly was chosen because at the time it needed to distinguish “instant watching” from managing your ‘DVD by mail’ queue (which was the only thing you could do on the web before “watch instantly” was a thing. We definitely used streaming to describe the activity though; you’d find it in press, earnings calls, etc… Just not in that particular variant of the UI. (source: worked there at the time).




  • For sure, but my point was that t hey know that outright banning guns is nearly impossible, so they’ve done essentially what the republicans have done on abortion. They’ve attacked it on every other conceivable angle: they’ve made it hard to buy guns, hard to use them, hard to run any business that sells them, hard to buy ammo, hard to stay in legal compliance with constantly changing laws and case law.

    The state’s strategy has essentially morphed to enacting every law and policy that makes it harder to buy, own, and use guns, knowing that most of them are not legal, but get them tied up in courts indefinitely. It’s a scummy strategy, but it’s been fairly effective.


  • French75@slrpnk.nettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldBut bro please
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    29 days ago

    It’s moronic. We demand lower noise in most products, but demand higher noise in guns because we can’t distinguish Hollywood bullshit from reality. I think most CA Dems would accept the premise that reducing injurious noise levels while participating in a legal activity is a good idea, but institutionally they’d never give an inch on gun laws.