We know he’s a monster and yet we do nothing to stop him. The laws are powerless. Simply shooting him is seen as gauche.

Teams is the worst. Microsoft keeps finding new lows.

Not excited for this to be used to squash union efforts (legally or not)

Valve makes drm easy but I’m pretty sure the developer can choose to not include it. It’d be on you to back up the files in that case, though.

Using a summary written by a soulless lie machine is irresponsible

Most people seem to not even have any notion of how things can be better. They never even think to look up like “block ads”. They just take whatever fuckery they get

I don’t think we should let this guy just walk around. He’s clearly a danger to himself and others.

I mean, I imagine there’s still a window where you can ask for it for free, but you make an interesting point. For many people, it has lowered their cost of food. I’m not sure all of them could have found free food as easily.

Her father said two of the three drinks she was accused of “stealing” were about to be thrown out.

Too many places throw out perfectly good food and that should be a crime.

There’s an app “too good to go” that lets you buy some discounted food at EOD, and there’s probably other similar things out there.

Where I used to work at a supermarket, I made friends with the deli guy and got a lot of food before it was thrown out. Management didn’t like it, of course.

You’ll participate whether or not you desire to. Knowledge will better equip you to engage with the world, good and bad, as it is. But it’s your choice. I’m not your professor.

Are you trying to say acclaimed book “Dying of Whiteness” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness ) is invalid because of your personal experiences?

I’m sorry but there’s a large body of evidence that many people in the US are deeply racist. Not always in a “wear a hooded costume” overt way, but in more polite and dressed up to look inoffensive ways as well.

You can also read the new Jim Crow and “the color of law”.

Recently my lead hypothesis is that many people would rather personally suffer and die if it means that black people have it worse. I read “dying of whiteness” recently, and it’s haunting. “It’s socialism” is just a coded way of expressing that.

I tip generously at my local bar and in return they sometimes give me free stuff. Got a whole sandwich recently.

There’s still going to be an opportunity cost. You can build massive renewable sources, but powering a data center with it is a shit use compared to other things.

Oh that reminds me of when I was like 4, one of the neighborhood kids convinced a bunch of the other kids to eat some of those cicada exoskeletons they leave on trees. I did not, but I’m pretty sure some of the other kids did.

It’s things like this that make people say Luigi is a saint. There are people just clearly doing awful things with immunity, and there’s no lawful mechanisms to deal with it.

So… How do we remove this guy from office?

Leadership are mostly idiots. They don’t know how work gets done. They think like “wow it produced so many lines of code!” and don’t know that’s not a useful metric.

My job had Microsoft do a four hour copilot demo for the entire team last week. (Surely an immense expense. They won’t pay for most people to be full time with benefits). The guy used copilot to make a regex to parse html. A little surprised zalgo didn’t show up.

None of the fines for these things are enough. It should be, like, the company is nationalized. The leadership is sentenced to years of community service and barred from working in the industry for life.

That’s also a problem, yes. DRM free is best. I’m extremely reluctant to pay for a game I can’t play offline as much as I want. (Barring MMOs and the like, I guess. Don’t play a lot of those, myself)

All the wealth is being concentrated in the hands of too few people. I’m not going to buy a $120 game when my salary is down, or I’m just laid off.