Wytch

I just assume that at this point everything he's doing is illegal

I mean... yeah, we don't. And we know it. That's kind of the whole issue. But it's obviously more nuanced or we wouldn't have a problem with the system. We kind of want ownership, or more of it. More say in what we can do with the things we buy.

Licence is a separate category from ownership. Clear distinction in marketing, sales, and operation would help a lot with these conflicts. Selling them with the same techniques, channels, and methods gives players a false sense of permanence even if they're labelled as services.

Not sure what that distinction would look like. But it should look more honest.

Department Of Gaslighting Everyone

"You can find us on Fac-"

No. No, I can not.

Overheard today "Who really cares if prices go up, anyway?" unironically.

The crazy thing is we used to go after people over rumors that they were communist.

It was as clear then as it is now: right wing authoritarians will use any excuse to prosecute, jail, intimidate, and eradicate leftist values. They despise dissent, and cannot tolerate free thought or the exercise of rights against their power.

They're paranoid, fearful, unhinged, and they're coming for us again with the desperate grasp of a narcissist on their deathbed.

I'm curious about this analysis, because as a lay person to the business and its relationship to the tech, I have no opinion either way currently. That is to say, I neither agree nor disagree with what you're saying.

What I am is interested in why this string of comments is being down voted without comment, and I'd love to hear a bit more as to why from anyone who has some more to contribute.

He's not that clever. They kissed his wrinkled old ass

When they say "great" they mean "cruel" and we hear "terrible, racist, misogynistic, impoverished, and needlessly violent."

This is what they want. Total dismantling of every system that impedes capitalism and Christianity from absolute authority.

So, the worst people imaginable in every situation. Got it, no, we were expecting that.

America will regret its decision to stay at home and let the cult reelect DT

I mean, same thing kinda but like...

I was born just before Reagan was elected. Growing up, I got the mostly mistaken impression that America had some of its shit sorted from Vietnam, WWII, and all that 20th century turmoil. A period of stability. Upward trending society. Reagan undid a lot of that progress.

I've been watching this country die, slowly, for 45 years. This has been such a weird time to be alive. Fighting over scraps we volunteered to subsist on instead of overthrowing corrupt and cruel systems. We had periods we thought we were recovering. We had hope. I feel today like there isn't any left. Another four years of this, and it will be worse.

He struck a fatal blow. He used the tools of fear and rhetoric to do it. The weakness was there, the vulnerability. And here is the next evolution of American fear. We're a country voluntarily destroying itself out of fear of our imminent destruction. We had everything, and we gave it away.

We heard the call of the void, and we've answered.