Confirmation that Steam made a good call, right there.

The misspelled "favour".

I'm really going to miss Firefox

Qobuz have a download store. I've been using them for years and they've always been excellent.

If they've got a billion dollars they also own their own track and can pay other drivers to lose races against them.

Endgame capitalism is squeezing harder since the 2008 crash and then Covid. They predicted polarising of politics and ideologies. We're seeing tribalism as a reaction to fewer resources and harsher conditions, all of which are down to greed and oligarchy. They've succeeded in getting us to fight amongst ourselves instead of them.

"but we're leaving the millionaires alone"

Iran probably bought them from Putin with some shiny new drones.

The question can also be applied to why people believe in God / follow a religion. The notion of monarchy has (in the UK at least) been tied into pseudo religious notions of 'chosen by god' or similar, so it ties into that belief system for better or worse. (Historically the tie-in was to co-opt the obedience baked into faith, but that's probably lost on modern monarchists and believers.)

People everywhere develop unhealthy relationships with those that are oblivious to them, or outright parasitic and damaging. This is another of those that's been wrapped up in tradition and ceremony under the guise of 'normality' and the status quo. 'Ignorance is bliss' may apply.

Bullshit. The EU is far better off without us. They know it and we know it.

Depending upon the age of the bios, it may not recognise USB sticks over a certain size. If you can burn your Linux ISO to a CD-R you might have more luck.

Amen

They did their own research. Let them enjoy their freedom from 'experts'.

You're not entirely wrong in that philosophy. At best we can hope for allies some of the time, but typically that arrangement will last only when mutually beneficial. We're not owed anything, and that includes loyalty, allegiance, love etc.

I think the majority of people we experience in a lifetime will be parasitic, and will take infinitely more than they have the capacity to give. Even the "good ones".

I think it's fine to feel what you're feeling, you have your eyes wide open and are seeing relationships for what they are, without idealism. How to reconcile that understanding with a happy, fulfilling life is another thing entirely.

Murica will just break the deal next time Trump has a tantrum, it's probably just quicker to nod and smile. These deals can't be worth the ink at this stage.

A harmonica is more portable.

"a secular government" in theory only.

This is what the FDA used to control?

There are different rules for survival in a place where corporate profit is more valued than human life. Health Insurance companies will kill way more kids than this guy and his sales pitch. The bar for survival is getting higher, 'she knew the risks' but couldn't spot the bullshit: the people who can might survive, and (maybe) their kids.

It's like Nestle's formula division setting up shop in North America instead of Africa. The WHO stepped in during that crisis, but I think the USA abandoned that safeguard too.

This is what the majority voted for. Freedom to do harm to fellow Americans. Deregulation. No experts. Survival of the fittest style freedom.

"These options did not add any real value" made me smile. That's the Windows 11 tagline!

Zero. I have unshakable belief that we're collective morons with self-destruction baked into our DNA.