If you don't own what you pay for, then pirating is not unethical. Period.

Idiocracy. started as a comedy, evolved through time in a documentary.

I feel so sorry about the continuing decline of the USA political system to an actual autocratic fascist regime

If anyone wants privacy while maintaing a smart home, then Home Assistant is the solution. Its not adopted widely because it has a learning curve and it needs a bit (or a lot) poking around to make it work. It also has a voice assistant that is not AI powered ( but it could be supplemented by a local LLM if you really want to). A big rabit hole if anyone is interested to go to.

When the glass is broken and trust is gone, it takes a lot if time, if any to heal. Europe should just go for strategic autonomy, in energy, defence, tech, anywhere. Then deal with whomever as equal and not as a subservient. I'm sure Democrats would not object that kind of relationship

I ll do you a better one. Why is Jason?

You're doing the lords work my dude. There are not enough ways to thank you for your work

As a European,

It will take a lot more than these, along with plenty of time and pain, to regain the trust of the rest if the world.

Mostly it will require a turn, in behalf of the USA, to a functioning democracy, with checks and balances, a functioning senate and house of representatives, a functioning justice, a functioning administration, a working economy, fair trade and so on.

I m not very optimistic that the USA will do it in my lifetime if ever.

If they can tax your house based on its current valuation, they can sure tax their stocks based on their current fucking valuations.

Excuse my French, they are not my native language.

Nor are English.

Mastodon

too little, too late

I would like to say, how the tables have turned. But I would wish for any country to have the fate of Greece after the GFC. Whatever the headlines and the numbers may say, Greeks havent recovered financially since 2008.

Working conditions are completely shit, the lowest collective bargaining, worst housing crisis in EU, 6 days weeks, 13 hours of work per day, pension at 67, highest tax burden in the EU, 2and to last in PPP and many more.

I can't understand why would anyone take Greece as an example to adapt fir their workers

Good. now GTFO from Ukraine!

A hobby pays itself just by enjoying it. I've never calculated how long it will take to pay off my gaming rig

Not killing their parents would definitely go a long way for these children. Not going to war and not committing atrocities would also help.

This should happen every time, a dictator, an authoritarian or an orange moron dies.

Even with the high prices you can still build a decent AM4 based PC and play titles bought on GOG which is DRM free. If you install Linux you all get one of the best is for free. If you want to go further you can emulate the heck of old consoles and old PC games and have tons of fun. You could also sail the high seas for content that has DRM and/or is very expensive. Don't forget. If you don't own what you buy the piracy is ethical and justified. After akk, piracy is mostly a service problem and when you enshitify a service you end up FAFO.

Me with my over 500 games backlog in steam and thousands of Roms in emulators:

best kind of teamwork!