What do you mean? I’m totally supposed to be on Lemmy instead of working …

Ah yes, the classic, “it won’t effect me so I’m ok with what ever abuse.”

How pitiful.

Your pride in ignorance is pathetic. Perfect example of why public education is critically important to fund, and to fund properly.

Conservstives cling on to old, stupid ideas that are in the process of being proven wrong. Again and again and again and again.

But you go ahead and defend that hill that brought us golden gems of wisdom like “Trickle Down Economics”, private, for-profit prisons, and a lack of regulation so companies can dump what ever they want in to rivers and the ocean…

Nonono, you misunderstand the political landscape.

Something having downsides IS NOT the same as the claims being made against things. If you think conservative politicians are arguing in good faith, you simply haven’t been listening.

There really are not sound (conservative) arguments against them.

If you do not agree, you do not know enough. Period.

No, there’s really not sound arguments against them. That’s why nobody ever hears sound arguments.

Stop assuming ghosts exist because you saw a picture frame on the wall move when a large truck went by…

“If you bought something”.

and buying it on steam counts as buying it on ubisoft?

Late-stage capitalism, not “neocapitalism”.

There is nothing new, unexpected, or unique about late-stage capitalism. It’s just greedy fucks thinking they’re the smart ones.

Never buy them EVER: If you don’t sign in to your ubisoft account for a year, they delete your catalog. The things you paid them for. They remove.

If buying isn’t owning…

As does anyone who treats religion more seriously than Santa as an adult…

Those problems persist to this day. Just like how Trump (didn’t) delt with COVID.

“The economy” took precedence over peoples’ health, even though peoples’ activity makes the economy… By allowing so many to die, the US’ economy will produce far less than it would have for decades to come. They failed even at the direct goal they were aiming for…

The short-sightedness is the problem. People who think they even can defocus on any goal are only succeeding in deluding themselves.

That was, in fact, wrong.

Just because there is a high priority present doesn’t magically make it ok to throw your humanity out the window… Why do I have to explain this!? Are you a sociopath?!

That ENTIRE SHOW was about how he had many chances to choose to not be a piece of shit. Every spiral was because of him. He is, in fact, a terrible person, and the fact you cannot understand that is concerning. Having one singular noble goal does NOT magically absolve him of all of his terrible decisions.

I mean, they could offer it through the browser. All modern browsers have more than enough hooks and permissions control to do something as simple as take a couple pictures and make a basic request to a back end.

Though making nice things costs money, so…

They already have with their planned obsolescence. At least HP printers tend to work if you give them blood of your first born ink.

Removed by mod

Yea, I’ve quit so many games almost because of the daily/weekly grind BS. I don’t care how fun the game loop is if it’s becoming a freaking job. Especially if I HAVE to do the BS to progress at the expected pace.

Fuck. That. I’m here for fun, not for a list of chores.

Because then REI gets to be the one selling your purchase history and credit report.

two words: data aggregation.

They know it’s you. They can match it everywhere else.

Not the topic. Not the point.

You fail to note that those rails are irrelevant to the conversation.

Stop being an idiot choosing to completely miss and obfuscate the point. It’s just… pathetic.

You can not believe them all you want. It doesn’t magically make everyone competent.

Businesses value MONEY first, not security, not happy customers, not competent staff. MONEY.

Which is cheaper? Get a product working enough to sell. Get a product properly developed, secured, and audited.

Pick one. Hint: corporations choose MONEY. Every time.

Your data is not safe, because rich pieces of shit like MONEY more than they like YOU.