Certainly. I probably should have said “extensible” or “mod-able”.

Bullshit.

EA did what they’ve been doing for 30 years: buy a competing game studio, release a few token cash grab titles under their beloved name, then shut down the studio and lay off all the developers. EA mediocritized Will Wright’s original vision for Spore, and trashed the last SimCity game with their always-online, closed architecture and slapdash support.

The really insidious part is that EA does make fun games, but they have remade the industry in their image: closed source, online only, DRM-infested, yearly release, day-one “expansion”, cash grab software that inspires none of the community and creativity that used to foster legendary franchises. And, they’ve killed countless game studios to create a quasi-monopoly to do it with.

I am still bitter over what they did to Maxis. I will never buy another EA game for as long as I live.

Vanta-black void!

The one-off test involved 10 AI-controlled “Terminator” drones on the front line of the Ukraine war.

Government becomes more fascist, tech companies become more fascist.

People don’t like surveillance advertising, and most reject it when given the choice. Unpopular policies are squashed when the people are represented, and the Republican policies and interests of forced and extreme deregulation are being represented here, not the people’s.

That, and I believe advertising is inherently fascistic in the way that it distorts realty, and intrusively attempts to modify thinking with punitive, insulting, and psychologically coercive methods - it is corporate propaganda, and when it is combined with surveillance and purchased by the State, it becomes fascism.

I can’t wait for them to try and make ad-blocking illegal. We’re seeing a similar trend with the age verification firm Yoti “reporting” GrapheneOS users to “the authorities”, whatever the hell that Gestapo bullshit scare-tactic means. If FOSS software and ad-blocking are tools of privacy and freedom from thought manipulation, and those concepts are being attacked by a State-backed corporate entity, then the State no longer represents those values. Chrome, like so much other corporate software that has sunk to surveillance advertising with a healthy side of selling data to the government, is now just another fascist tool to punish democratic resistance.

Freedom from advertising is a human right.

TIL it was from Clark and Dawe, and that they had many more skits. However, TIDNL about the meme that has been a round for years.

If Apple and Google are sending kids nude images, then their parents are showing them porn by giving them phones.

Let me guess, the solution is age verification for everyone?

Forgot to strip out the arguments at the end of the URL, should work now. Thanks!

Would that make you a die hard Die Hard fan?

If you really like die hard fans of the movie Die Hard, are you a: die hard die hard Die Hard fans fan?

If you really like the durable ventilation fans featured in the movie Die Hard, are you a: die hard Die Hard die hard fans fan?

If you really like die hard fans of the durable ventilation fans featured in the movie Die Hard, are you a: die hard die hard Die Hard die hard fans fans fan?

If you are a die hard fan of the Movie Die Hard, and you are a die hard fan of the durable ventilation fans in the movie Die Hard, and you really like the die hard fans who collect Die Hard fans, and you die with rigor mortis of the penis with a ventilation fan from the movie Die Hard blowing on you, are you a: die hard Die Hard die hard fan fanned die hard die hard Die Hard die hard fans fans fan who died hard?

What do you call a die hard fan of pedantic Die Hard jokes that spends all day making die hard Die Hard jokes instead of working?:

It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message… that shareholder value will always increase to perpetually borrow against tax free!

Why do this when you can just put your phone in the microwave and charge your battery by electromagnetic induction? I’ve charged my last 67 phones this way and it’s never been a problem.

No tears for this onionpilled veggiecel in his layermaxxing phase. Sprout on yellow king.

Vood ewe lihkke sauhm oft mein Menstruuudel?

Why is the cow wearing a thong? :(

Fascist leaders like Putin play a dangerous game: they must always appear strong to ward off challengers to their tyranny. But, each time they lie they incur a debt to the truth that they are fundamentally weak, which is why they became fascists in the first place. Eventually the lies only serve to make them appear weaker until their brittle power crumbles in their clenched fists.

Apparently Putin has taken to living in his gilded cages to avoid assassination.

I’m gonna take up some extreme watersports in my 40’s

Fartist

Ever since the CEO of Telegram was basically lured to Paris, arrested, then read the riot act for Telegram’s non-cooperation with French authorities, the company has been responding to warrants and downplaying its “E2EE” features. Expect them to have a fully accessible backdoor for LE.

By the way, don’t forget about that Bitlocker backdoor that “mysteriously” doesn’t affect Windows 10.

The EU and US digital surveillance states have been tightening their grip on encryption and online anonymity for years now. “Age verification” is just the latest push.

I prefer the term “distressed eccentric friend you’ll never meet” 🥲

Anyways, how about those sports teams/political parties/abortion rights?