Why spend the money up front? That’s just bad business. They’ll only do it if there’s real traction in the rest of the verse blocking their shit.

I’m worried that what they’ll do is just set up hundreds of instances on various domains (not even necessarily *.facebook.com, or similar) in order to connect and scrape. Banning them would require resources and time people just can’t dedicate in the way a megacorp can.

Adding to this with a post I found on wallstreetbets.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/15uo06v/inflation_data_has_always_been_a_lie/

Not exactly a reputable source, but the OP does go through several key indicators and shows their math (with screenshots of a calculator, lol)

Maybe I’m becoming too cynical, but the raises these unions have been settling on don’t really cover inflation over the periods where they received no increase.
These articles just feel like the media wings of these megacorps are trying to stroke our egos. “Yes, so much bargaining power!”

I can’t find the article I’m thinking of where someone used a bunch of privately sourced data to peg the average annual inflation at 7%, but this article shows how economists don’t even agree on what metrics to measure for calculating inflation.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex.asp

It’s like everyone forgot he was busy causing constitutional chaos to avoid justice.

Copyright won’t help here. Extending it to allow the protection of concepts as well as literal implementation is what Oracle tried to do, and would’ve resulted in a few megacorps demanding licensing for core concepts that no one can really make quality, functional software without.

Of course, software patents are also stupid, even if the general intent of patents seems reasonable.

Of course, the moment the constructive criticism is only coming from the outside will be when it gets labeled as foreign manipulation to further cement tribalistic mentality and provide fresh out-groups to hate and fear.

What, you don’t like smoothbrained out-of-touch takes about an entire generation based on the transparent dictate of global property holdings companies?

Old Souls in Young Bodies™ my ass. People are going low-tech to escape pervasive panopticon and the endless stream of fake fucking people and conspiracy peddlers.

Any time I read these broad-brush generation articles, I have to hold my eyes still to avoid setting my skull on fire with frictive heating.

They’ll be moved by force if it gets large enough. Homeless people reaching critical mass is something cities actively “tackle” by loading them onto buses and sending them elsewhere.

I made the switch to Manjaro in January, haven’t needed Windows once for gaming.

Most difficulty I’ve had was with Cyberpunk 2077, but that’s because GOG broke some shit on their end that requires a workaround hack to stub some phone-home code that checks what DLC you have or whatever.

For the most part, shit just works now.

Suppressing the timely resolution of this strike allows new media companies that don’t follow the same rules to fill the demand. I’m sure TikTok benefits from that to some small degree, but they probably suppress protest footage and related as a default to preserve “social harmony”.

I would honestly love a rule banning the submission of articles that use the “slammed/blasted” headline.

Gotta practice that passive language to avoid laying blame anywhere. Wouldn’t want to step in it themselves, right?

I hope so. Room temperature superconductivity would make so many things economically viable overnight…

I can’t wait to overhear people sharing conspiracies about it, like they did with Tim Hortons and nicotine-lined coffee cups.

“The government is printing circuits in the warning messages so they can spy on you while you talk during your smoke break!”
“I heard it’s full of chemicals to make you compliant!”
“I bet the only reason you really get cancer from these is because of the ink!”

I don’t know anything about the Netherlands’ civic structure, but if it’s anything like the model spread around by the British, then they were probably staring down the barrel of a no-confidence vote, which would effectively end the same way.

I have no idea why you’re being downvoted; this is literally what those walls full of game boxes were meant for (even back when they actually had shit in 'em).

Auto-aggregation with an option to disable it locally, maybe?

Reddit has been undeleting posts and comments, so that’s probably not going to work.