You’re spending a lot of time and effort defending one of the richest corporations in the world. It’s weird.

Has put occurred to you that young impressionable minds are hurt by you lying on the Internet that skipping ads is theft or that it hurts people?

So stealing is defined (in some states) as taking property with the intent to permanently deprive the owner of the property. So you’re incorrect and commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com might be breaking YouTube’s terms and condition not the law, and it’s not theft.

If Google were paying the content creators anything even remotely resembling the kind of income from advertisers the content earns, I might have a shred of sympathy for them losing a tiny bit of advertising revenue if some user watches a video without watching the same three ads they’ve seen ten times already that day.

You’re spending a lot of time and effort defending one of the richest corporations in the world. It’s weird.

Enjoying meat and two veg on a daily basis is traditional.

Gays, is it healthy to eat fellas?

What did you think milf stands for?

I’ve travelled on hundreds and hundreds of trains in the UK. On busy services, unless you’re getting on at the start, if you don’t have a specific seat reserved, you will be standing. This is normal. I don’t have a source for that claim, I just have many years of experience.

There’s a plausibility gap on capping ticket sales for trains. Why on earth would they stop selling “anytime” tickets? They’re really expensive and a train with plenty of people standing costs the company no more but earns them a great deal.

What’s unusual here is that this looks like it came with an “advance” ticket, which is cheaper, limited in number, only available in advance, and is required to come with a reserved seat, but they’ve clearly oversold even them.

This is the UK. The train will be heaving, and those without a specific seat number reserved will likely have to stand unless they’re getting on at the first station and are early on to the train.

Not common in the UK where this seat reservation ticket is from.

Everyone is permitted to sit, except if the seat is reserved for someone else who has a normal seat reservation ticket which specifies the coach and seat number.

No, only individual seats are reserved. There’s no “reservations only” carriage, but there are carriages that are more or less reserved. Off the top of my head, I think coach B is often very close to, but never actually fully reserved, whereas D has only a minority of awards reserved.

They absolutely oversell on a regular basis on UK train.

I suspect it’s an “Advance” reduced fare ticket, which is only ever valid with a seat reservation, but either the seat was over specified (ticking all three of facing forwards, table seat, near the entrance, for example), or the train company continued to issue “Advance” tickets even after all the reservable seats are gone, which you could count as a dick move, or you could interpret as allowing more people to buy tickets at the reduced fare.

It could be that that was one of the least overcrowded trains scheduled on a day that’s expected to be very overcrowded indeed, and they’re trying to spread the no standing room pain across as many trains as possible. It’s certainly cheaper than putting on additional services.

I am very familiar with this ticketing system, and if you don’t have a specific seat reserved, you’ll be very lucky to find a seat unless you’re getting on at the beginning of the train’s journey.

Very, very incorrect. You’ll very likely be standing with this scenario. No seat number? No seat, unless you’re very very lucky, or you happen to be getting on at the train start station and it’s there very early and so are you.

That’s in fact absolutely false.

No, they still sell tickets without reservations and anytime tickets without limit. Your only guarantee is a numbered seat that you can claim. This has no such thing.

Wait till you hear the chlorine washed chicken news!

Chickens in the USA are typically “battery chickens”, which is actually about as brutal as it sounds. They’re kept in way too small spaces, unable to move around, and stand and sit in their own feces all day.

The chlorine wash helps them pass lab tests for lack of pathogens, because small amounts of chlorine get onto the test samples and kill the bacteria, but the chlorine is only surface deep. Salmonella is endemic, and many chickens’ undersides are actually rotting from being in their own filth all day. But if the bacteria test passes, it’s fine and the big corporation buying the cheap chicken doesn’t care.

Salmonella infections and food poisoning generally are relatively high as a result of these kind of profit-driven practices.

The boil in the bag thing isn’t a big deal by comparison, but no, the USA does not have strong food safety standards, the USA has strong lobbying and openly legal corporate funding of politicians that would be seen as corruption in many other countries.

If you were prepared to ever admit you were wrong, you would have done it today.