On cable as long as you had a DVR you could skip every commercial. With streaming, ads are baked into the experience and commercials can be made unskippable. It sucks.

Yes there are some ridiculous mod actions here, I just said that portraying them as being more sympathetic to murder than misogyny is specious.

If I was a woman I could see how online misogyny would affect me in a real way, being unable to participate in and feel welcome in communities day to day.

An anonymous flame war death threat does not actually materially affect someone, unless there’s some reason to think it’s serious, the odds of which are negligible.

No one’s saying actual murder is less bad than misogyny, for fucks sake.

I’m boycotting because the new chicken is a gross honey thing instead of last year’s Al Pastor which I liked. If I wanted chicken drowned in sugar sauce I’d go to Panda Express.

No it isn’t. It’s removing a batch script they used to provide as a shortcut to invoke the functionality. Until now they’ve been handholding people to streamline use of their less preferred feature and they’re no longer doing that. But by all means take the headline ragebait.

Yes, you can run the web server locally and access it in your browser like any other site. You just wouldn’t be able to access it from outside your home network.

Since you want to be able to access these stories as well as store them, you can kill two birds with one stone by creating a Django app with a SQLite backend. The builtin admin site will let you browse and search the content without having to write much code.

How much cheese is too much cheese to eat before a date?