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One great benefit of the stop killing games initiative is the spotlight being put onto EULA’s. we all knew this is the wild shit EULA’s tried to dictate for years now, but now we have media actually reporting on it. even if SKG goes nowhere, at least we’ve had a revival of this massive consumer issue.

north korea echoes popular sentiment

Just imagining that clap some teachers do in the morning to get their class doing the morning salutations.

"Good morning honorable judge presiding…’

russia is the no-no country for doing bad things, like starting pointless wars and terrorizing a civilian population. so you can’t support them. you’ll have to find other alternatives to your services that support bad countries doing bad things.

I hope my kids don’t grow up to murder me over unhinged conspiracy crap.

UberEats but for national defense. If you tip below the threshold they either don’t come or spit in your ammo.

hey man, you have your spaces.

Yes, kill the beloved man, a meme figure of himself, a genuine inspiration to some. I don’t believe state-backed executions of dissidents has ever lead to any notable events.

America would probably launch a land invasion of Australia before they ever let Pine Gap go. Previous attempts were met with harsh penalties from the US.

Advertisements suck and no regular person would ever advocate for seeing more of them. Enshittification is also out of control and ad-free services you pay a subscription for are more and more sneaking in ads where they can. This combination of facts is why I am a deranged data hoarder with self-hosted solutions wherever possible.

I just really really hate ads. If I had a Roku and this change rolled out to me I’d probably flip.

I mean, the Adobe website flashed me pop-ups about not being in the right location, about cookies - I would choose GIMP based on this.

I choose FOSS 90% of the time because they are not beholden to the same conventions that compel most for-profit products. A lot of the concerns I’m reading about readability, marketability, etc ring absolutely true for life-or-death for-profit ventures, but there are definitely people who don’t mind missing all of that stuff in exchange for good and decent software.

The goal, after all, is to be image editing software, not an advertisement.

This sounds like something I put on my resume to get a coding job, but I’m not actually a coder.

It’d work, too.

Trump is seriously blurring the line between himself and Lex Luthor more and more by the day. Trump was always a very whacky character, but threats to steal like, Canada, or the real estate of Greenland just really completes the picture.

I’m so glad Australia has been such a good vassal ally to the states, because the states sure do pay it back. I mean, they wouldn’t set up military bases on our land unless they really loved us.

please donald not nato

imagine the logistical nightmare of tracking, arresting and executing entire families depending on the causality reports you get back from the conflict. somehow I don’t believe one of the poorest nations on Earth is actually investing all that much time and money into the ‘kill-their-families’ benefit for soldiers.

steam is a monopoly almost entirely on merit, they’ve done little to no market manipulation to get into this position. the solution is to encourage competitors to offer similar features and not force steam to bend over backwards allowing game transfers or what have you. game transfers which people largely won’t utilize because they’re already no leaving steam, giving them additional options to leave steam won’t do anything.

Dev had it sorted out in '94