I think Steam might be the only private company in this.

Really says a lot.

I miss the good old ‘we don’t negotiate with terrorists’ US.

Pretty sure that was only a thing in movies.

We negotiate with terrorists all the time.

I kept saying this, and I'm glad others are realizing it.

He steamrolled tariffs because it's a tax on the working class. He will never raise taxes for the ruling class.

They're just testing to see what people are willing to accept.

Every time you see a useful idiot saying "it's not that bad" or "they're a business and they need to make money", you know who to blame for why things are the way they are.

This retard thinks the government doesn't use SQL...

Israelis are raised to hate others.

"Depends" is the wrong way to frame it.

Essentially, this means we're serving them.

I keep trying to explain, billionaires aren't the only issue. Stop looking up to millionaires, too. They're both ripping us off.

Don't ever go to bat for them unless you want to be a useful idiot.

Both.

Peertube made this asinine decision to make federating opt-in, so most instances are just places where the owner can jerk themselves off for excluding everything.

$5. They're $5.

What's sad is, they won't even change from this.

That would require admitting they were wrong.

Stupidly insecure people are incapable of admitting fault unless they literally have no other choice in order to be accepted by their peers.

Err... what about the people in Haiti? Or everywhere else that's significantly worse than the WHITE part of south africa?

They are enemies of the US, their goal is to weaken it, and we are under attack.

That said, they care about enriching themselves and their loyal buddies more than anything else.

"It's easier to fool a man than to convince him he'd been fooled." - Mark Twain

Look at how insanely difficult, if not impossible, our job is at educating these morons on how they're being taken for a ride by conmen. The longer it goes on the more they'd have to admit they're wrong about, which makes it even less likely they'll realize it.

Being a useful idiot is really a sunk-cost fallacy on a life scale.

It sure seems that way. Their "extended security maintenance" spam says that there are security updates that are only available if you "subscribe".

I asked the Linux community about this, and didn't get a straight answer (not surprised.)

It was enough for me to switch to Debian, though. There's no excuse for updates to be locked behind paywalls or sign-ups in the free software ecosystem.

There needs to be term-limits for all elected positions in government.

The idea of the "career-politician" needs to go away.

Why do you put stock in security guarantees now?

Ukraine had security "guarantees" when Russia invaded because they gave up their nukes that Western nation have not followed through on.

They must've hired some new analysts that said "hey, people are willing to accept less! Why are we doing more?"

It's up to the people to prove them wrong, but that usually doesn't happen :\

Good. The anti-drug laws in the philippines are barbaric and the perpetrators need to face justice.

As someone who's played MMOs, 1.5% chance is actually pretty high.

What's sad is a significant amount of people have simply been conditioned to accept that level of noise in their lives.

If things are quieter and they aren't getting products shoved in their faces 24/7, they become visibly uncomfortable.