Fuck no, no sacrifices. Productivity is up, wealth is up, people should be paid more for their time and have more time to spare.

They say if you don't pay, you're the product, but that's obviously bullshit, paying solves nothing. The saying should be never trust corporations.

There needs to be a legally mandated option to turn off all recommendations and tracking, and to require consent to enable it in the first place.

Such a waste of public resources, to not develop (or fund) free and open tools for everyone, instead of paying for temporary licenses for closed software.

Russia really should reconsider whether it's worth parking their fleet in a foreign country.

Of course. Climate change is happening, and will keep getting worse until all the biggest countries agree to do and actually go through with doing something substantial about it (or to fully isolate the economies of those that refuse). Nuclear war is just an idea.

It's only politics because people go out of their way to oppress them. There's nothing to be political about if people are allowed to be who they are.

That's a weird thing to say. I'd be more worried about whether the refugees will want to go back after the war, to help rebuild the country, or stay in their new lives. As refugees, they may or may not have a choice, but on the other hand, countries might want the skilled workers. The longer the war goes on, the more established they could become elsewhere.

Streaming services, digital services in general, should be made to compete on having the best platform, not on exclusive content.

It's all the same wires going to the same machines. Internationally, too. I can see maybe allowing for different pricing for countries with very different wage levels, but if it's online, it should be available everywhere.

I think the main issue with this is that pronunciation changes over time, in addition to varying by area. So if we keep changing the spelling, written works will became unreadable faster.

But I would suggest that any band names that use umlauts/foreign letters should be pronounced accordingly.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but that's how they got in trouble with Internet Explorer in the EU.

I'm not a big fan of animal agriculture, but I don't get why milk is singled out, as if we don't consume the dead bodies of animals, bodies that weren't "meant for" anything other than sustaining itself.

And we've been doing it for thousands of years, selectively breeding and domesticating cows for the purpose. Humans drinking cow's milk is more natural than carrots being orange.

Is killing the point? Just make it all better. Get rid of DRM and subscriptions to play your own games, let people use LAN and their own servers for multiplayer.

I think at this point it should be 3 six-hour days per week. 100+ years of technological progress increasing productivity, and the number of people's needs that can be covered by the same amount of work.

And GOG. They used to have several games up there, and then delisted them.

This is the intended outcome of their actions. They'd rather get rid of useful things than allow a society that says it's fine for people to be who they are, because the overall purpose is to make people suffer.

The AIs are the ones gaslighting.

Every position cut/not filled should mean an equivalent pay increase for everyone who has to pick up that slack, or that that slack is left where it is.

As in, people have literally evolved to be able to drink cow's milk.

Right, we need net zero emissions, no further destruction of nature, and then we can start doing something to undo what we've already done.