The USA has quite literally been involved in a war every single day for the past 50 years. Not sure anything needs manufacturing.

You can do it in some job circumstances if you’re sneaky enough

Cutting edge research proves that AI isn’t as smart as humans… well, yeah, my 3 year old knows that

These would be interesting challenges in a world where capitalism still exists in half of countries, and socialism exists in a variety of progressed stages, but,

I imagine the company is nationalised by the country it’s headquartered/mostly managed in. Nationals/Allied socialist states get free/subsidised service (ie commissions and purchases), everyone else pays as usual. Efficiency savings for the socialist nations is a net benefit anyway, with the bonus that capitalist states subsidise it, job done.

How is that not unreasonable? Your justification is literally just supply and demand.

The exact same justification an employer uses to exploit workers, your argument is “if game devs want better pay, why don’t they go set up their OWN company???”. Actual upbeared justification of technofeudalism.

Massively overcharging on commission, with anti-competitive practices, is kind of the definition of unreasonable in my books. Absolute HONKTONS of people - I’m amazed you emphasise ‘nobody’ in that sentence - want to build alternatives for it, but struggle because Steam has users locked in and deliberately have made it massively inconvenient to ever leave.

I feel like 95% of PCs, probably even gaming PCs, are bought prebuilt anyway.

On March 28, 2010, Sony announced it would be disabling the PS3’s OtherOS feature, with the v3.21 update, due to security concerns.

This caused the end of the PS3’s common use for clustered computing

Even when closed-source lets you do fun stuff, they soon stop you.

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Just the list of wars involving the US alone is like… the longest ever. Most (all?) of which are overseas aggression. Best I can tell, the US has not had a single day of peace in the last 80 years.

Just to compare, Communist China has spent at least 40 of the last 80 years not involved in any war, all of which have been arguably defensive. Despite having 5 times the people and 5 times the neighbours.

Heck yeah! There’s a whole slew of themed Frog spells, field effects, traps, effect and normal monsters. It can be a pretty viable deck! (though again, not against anything modern :( ) It has my very enjoyed effect where spells will say stuff like “affects all monsters with ‘frog’ in the name” so you can sometimes slip in like a robo frog or whatever.

These are very subjective arguments, and even the objective points are completely subjective depending on your distro.

I mean one of his arguments is that C++ is just inherently insecure. He just takes Microsoft’s claims at face-value that all their pointless shit is the magical security wall that it claims to be. He buys into the same lie that ACE on a Windows, Mac or Android is somehow much much safer than on Linux. Most of his claims that other OSes are more secure are rooted in “well yeah they do exactly the same but at least they knooow they do”.

I’m not even acknowledging ChromeOS - it is Linux, except it only runs a browser.

99% of this stuff also applies to Windows/MacOS/Android/iOS, except moreso and far more universally. And 90% of this stuff is only relevant if you’re being targeted by some state-funded intelligence like the CIA (cold reading your RAM?? minimum 16-character password?? Keystroke fingerprinting???)

So whatever, I think the hardening guide looks fairly accurate, but unless you’re being spied on by world powers, I wouldn’t consider it worth peoples’ time to read, never mind implement. 90% of people are still going to be more secure by cluelessly using Linux instead of cluelessly using the others.

As someone who has personally dealt with that kind of large contract, the data protection does not flow over to regular customers at all. Even with a big Google contract, our company still had restrictions on what kind of data we could put up there, specifically because of how Google said they’d process it.

Yeah no.

“Turning off a smart feature means your Workspace Content & Activity will no longer be used to improve the relevant smart features moving forward. The learnings developed from this improvement process may persist even after you turn off a smart feature.” “turning off a smart feature setting means that your Workspace Content & Activity would no longer be actively processed to improve the relevant smart features.”

That includes GMail and basically all your Google stuff. So they’re absolutely free to “improve their features” based on all your shit, and that would pretty certainly include Gemini.

I really enjoyed Yu-Gi-Oh from the first few generations. It was just dumb fun, you normal summon some cool looking guys with silly effects, etc. Back on Duelworld I basically only played old cards.

Modern Yu-Gi-Oh can jump in a pit. I’m like “Look at my sick ass normal monster - Petit Dragon, I normal summon him and he sits there :)” and the enemy is like "I super summon goliath killo blast who allows me to synchro summon (whatever the fuck that is) three other cards and xyz summon (???) two more who all let me automatically play the “I get inifinite battle turns” spell card and you lose.

I made some really fun decks - Flip card monsters, confusing trap deck, cute frogs, even a zombie-themed one which I really enjoyed playing against any contemporary decks, but would be completely pointless now.

Like I just wanted some fun card game shenanigans. I would only play again now if the opponent agreed that no card effect can be longer than two sentences, that the only kinds of summon are “normal” and “special”, and that you could only “special” summon say 1/turn.

well alright, maybe just a little bit moreso. But Windows has been doing shitty shenanigans and prompting a number people to switch for many years, W11 isn’t unique in this regard. Microsoft have long-demonstrated they could reach out the computer monitor and slap every user around a bit with a large trout, and still keep 95% of their user base.

TLDR

Be gay. Do crime.

Torment nexus etc

Saying that ‘corporatism’ is just the bad form of capitalism has the same vibe as saying that the holocaust is just the bad form of Naziism.

mf it’s an inevitability of your entire ideology

With the reality being that even if any AGI was created, if it’s half as good as we expect, it will immediately rebel against whoever “controls” it and then it’ll never have mattered who rushed there first.

Right-wingism has always been afraid to admit that it’s entirely reliant on free money from the government. Corporations aren’t even good at enough at making profit to sustain themselves without government intervention from every angle.

Profits for me, costs for thee taxpayer