Is it p2w? Are there predatory microtransactions?

I switched to themoviedb out of spite

Apple is busy fighting DMA in EU and Google is busy fighting the monopoly case in US. What are they supposed to do, fight human rights abuses instead of protecting profits of shareholders?!

Intellectual - noun: a person possessing a highly developed intellect

I don’t think JD Vance makes the cut.

I’m not living in any Nordic country so I can’t speak for those, but this “migrants cause crime” argument exists in any developed country. There are a lot of articles debunking the claims. I like John Oliver’s debunking since it’s pretty easy to understand: https://youtu.be/axsgzg3RyF0

When any deep analysis is conducted, the arguments from racists simply don’t hold water. They offer simple, racist, and hateful explanations to very complex problems.

From another article from the same blog:

Given that Musk grew up in South Africa, he’s almost guaranteed to know about Black-White IQ gaps and crime rates

The author is deeply racist, just so you didn’t know. Anything they write, their whole blog, should be taken with huge amounts of salt. They also think

• Elon Musk is so good for us he should clone himself.
• JD Vance is an intellectual.

You clearly haven’t read the full essay.

So long as the capital markets were willing to continue funding loss-making future monopolists, your neighbors were going to make the choice to shop “the wrong way.” As small, local businesses lost those customers, the costs they had to charge to make up the difference would go up, making it harder and harder for you to afford to shop “the right way.”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/12/give-me-convenience/

Food for your thought.

I don’t know, to quote someone I read here: “The world shits when the US farts”

US electing an authoritarian might encourage authoritarians all around the world (even more)

My rational side wants to see Harris win, but the anarchist in me wants to see Trump win, just to see what would happen. Not living in the US, obviously.

Trump winning could be a disaster for the whole world since US is such a major player in basically everything, but my anarchist side does not listen.

“Vote with your wallet” means more money gets you more votes.

Some users leaving Reddit/instagram/twitter is not a problem, especially considering network effects, but some advertisers leaving is a crisis.

If you’re a fan of the idea, you’re either a nazi or really really ignorant/naive/misinformed.

So I’ll assume the latter and try to briefly explain to you why it’s so bad: people bad, authoritarianism inevitable, results in ‘oops you’re not “human” because you lack/have X, you must die’

Humanity, just like nature, thrives with diversity. Eugenics starts with “getting rid of nasty diseases” but it’s always 1 bad classification of “disease” away from genocide.

JARVIS is AI. LLMs are superpowered autocorrect. We don’t have anything close to AI yet.

My favorite character is Goku from original DB. IMO he got dumber and dumber as the series went on, and he lost his original character a bit too. DBZ is cool and all but original DB was on another level.

RIP Akira Toriyama.

The solution is to have two steam decks! When one is gaming, the other can be streaming

You probably realized I love steam deck

Connect steam deck and you’ll have pc and console in one! Steam deck dock has usb a port which can connect to keyboards, it runs Linux

Saitama

Slave traders were honored guests in lords’ palaces.

Avocado fell out of gourmet 2019ish

The article feels like AI written