You’re almost entirely correct. Slight caveats – on step two, HBO Now had a slightly different catalog than Go due to said agreements. Then on step three they also added a bunch of non-HBO stuff too. You probably know this stuff I’m just spelling it out for anyone who might not.

lol

I think the issue is that the CEO in charge changed. HBO is owned by conglomerates and has changed hands a couple times now.

I’d argue the only indefensible move was changing it to “Max” at all. The other rebrands sort of made sense in context

Same as my experience

One should never need to hack their own computer to disable nags. Full fucking stop.

Yes exactly! The guy in the clouds one is always most puzzling to me. His expression is basically null but everyone reacts like it means something

Are the [broad group]s okay?

Yeah see it’s not obvious if you’re being sarcastic or not…

Op had a really bad relationship

I can’t tell if you’re minimizing the problem because you think it used to be worse. If so, that’s pretty uncool, unlike the cleanups which you’re doing. Those are cool.

Thanks. I’m slightly less confused now

I have no idea why I keep seeing these and wish someone would explain.

I think it’s true that not every landfill charges

Edit: op said they only charge for specific items at that location so it probably would’ve been free

Littering really pisses me off. I’ve seen kids throw trash on the ground when a trash can was 5 ft away. Infuriating.

Wtf

So yes, you have to make some assumptions. But to me it’s pretty clear that if someone is expressing anger at a possible joke that would be messed up if not a joke, they probably aren’t trolling/joking themselves. And then even if some people were, when you see people doing it en masse, I think it’s a safer assumption to assume no one gets the satire than it is for them to see a single random thing online and then get mad about what they think it means, when there are multiple possible interpretations

I never said anyone should assume something is satire. It’s possible to just not know something and not make a judgement.

I feel like it should be more like “Poe’s sometimes true thing” because satire does indeed still exist. People making assumptions is the issue.

I dated someone who in earnest believed she has no accent. She didn’t understand what could be wrong about that.