many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.

<Oh no this would kill live service games

Liberal democracy was always a race of who could buy the biggest megaphone. Now they are worried that AI is making it even easier to fling shit and spin lies. Nothing however breaks because of AI, it was all about as dysfunctional as it could get before. What NYT and other legacy media is mostly worried about is that with AI psyops and fake news is becoming more and more democratized instead of an expensive top-down ordeal and for making harder for anybody to trust anything anymore, a trust that they relied on to control the narrative.

Is there any actual proven point of filtering out microplastics from the body? We still don’t know if there are any serious health effects from them, there is just this they might be connected to X,Y,Z. Even then the focus really should be environmental purification and water treatment.

Google search engine has been shit for a decade or more. Wasn’t there some document that it was made so by purpose, because there was no incentive to improve it becuse there was no real competition or the competition was just a front-end to google.

Replace jew/Israel with zionist if it helps you. It’s more accurate anyway.

“The tiny amount of aid that was on the yacht and not consumed by the ‘celebrities’ will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels,” the ministry added.

They will toss the aid to the wood chipper and laugh about it, won’t they…

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Why think of the consumer when you have practical monopoly on online video content distribution. If the creators are on youtube so will their audience and vice versa. Where will any of them go if you squeeze?

North korean are forced to use a smartphone?

I call that a normal day at Google or Meta

I don’t watch star trek and I only use linux on my home server

Yeah because original ideas and ip’s are always risky and there is too much money invested in movies these days to afford to be risky. Half of the work has already been done if there is a fanbase ready and waiting for them.

True, true… The techpriest vibes I’m getting out of this is because it’s a minor to non-existant improvement that might or might not be placebo is achieved by seemingly outlandish cure. As if the angry spirit of the fridge needed appeasing so that it stops haunting your mouse.

This is like the tech equivalent of consulting the village shaman or wisewoman for some serious disease.

“having much power / authority without being accountable to some third party”

A useless definition. Truly useless. You are going for the “But we can voot the bad people out of the system, so we are better than Chyna” shtick, aren’t you? A liberal narrative of democracy vs authoritarianism that has nothing to do with reality. Any sure way for people only can get accountability even in the west if they protest and riot on the streets. Otherwise the interest of the rulers will always overrule the interests of the people when there is a conflict between the two. And when talking change I’m not talking about promises or shuffling one talking head out to be replaced with another, I’m saying that real systemic change within the system has become nearly impossible, much less having accountability. The politicians, party machinery, institutions, the media and the 1% funding all of them are so deep in bed with each other.

China is authoritarian

“Authoritarian” doesn’t even mean anything as a word, beside being maybe vaguely synonymous with “enemy”. Any actual attempt definition of the word is either hypocritical and/or so wide and universally applicable to every state, making it useless.

Also why positive view of US in places like Eu and Canada is sliding is not because people really think America is sliding into non-democracy, or because people see US no longer as an shining example of prosperity, or have people really awoken the reality that US is the worlds largest rogue state and sponsor of terror (Israel, etc.). nor is china really seen as an better alternative.

Those people who most espouse having lost faith into US since 2024 are mainly the liberal-internationalists who are in power in these places (and in the media) would love nothing more than return to the pre-war status quo where EU is the junior partner in the American enterprise called west. They hate Trump and everything he represents, not America. They hate Trump not because he is incompetent or giving bad leadership per se, but because he makes people in places like Brussels and London nervous and makes “the west” look bad or atleast give it a look that more mask off and undignified look than they would like.

You don’t even know what victory day means in Russia.

There is so much unpaid labor that big tech depends on. If they had to fairly pay for all that work through donations or otherwise they would go bankrupt, every single on of them. Big tech grew so massive because on open source, but it also helped open source grow. big tech will also die because they are increasingly just a leech-like middleman that just sits upon a mountain of free work and whose relative sliver of code contribution in comparison to the total code in a product is getting smaller and smaller and big tech is therefore increasingly a burden and not a asset to societies, economies and other companies.

Governments should be funding the most popular open source software that the world relies on

profits of business have always been dependent on governments funding research and free work done by individuals to turn a profit. Open source is nothing new on this regard.

“In my case, I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” Trump said as he signed the executive order. “I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous.”