i think the point is y’all should go and do the romanov manover on the pissface

maybe we could help handing them nails to their coffin. Lets start demanding they add even more obnoxious things. Like for reddit, make even more posts no visible to those who are not logged in, have premium members be even more exclusive and away from the view. That should be a decent blow to any new people considering to join there since why would they want to do it if they cant even see what is there. And lets say they do it anyway and maybe even pay something, they will just get shit that isnt worth their money or they are kind of people that make it even worse place.

it could be sold to the crazier users as a way for them to be oh so exclusive and vip users so they would join in too. The executives would likely be extatic to see people demand same kind of shit they would want to put in anyway.

I dont know enough about facebook or shitter to have any ideas how to make them even worse, but for sure there is room there too.

Worse commercial social media becomes the better since it will push people away and eventually make it crumble.

oompa loompa song would be fun

why would they? the telemetry, spying and bloatware is the whole idea for them. At least for regular users. We are the product and the data they harvest from us and ads they force on us is the point. And why would they care, majority of people just sticks with whatever was presented to them first. No matter how much bloat and spyware they add, majority will never care enough to do anything about it because it doenst directly affect them beyond slowing the computer down, which they think will be solved by buying a new one.

if they can delete someones account and potentially make them buy everything again (at least that is how i think the executives must view it) why wouldnt they?

that someone wants all the dissenters to their agenda listed so they can be dealt with later after they have removed more rights from people. control and removal of “unwanted” is the only reason this is pushed. Maybe the rich elite is getting antsy over how the climate breakdown is starting to affect regular people more and more and they want to be ready when people might start questioning if its good to have parasitic class.

they want us to pay constantly, forever.

it will not stop unless its stopped.

i never really even got in, now i dont even want to anymore

i think everyone is too scared of the regime to act. and even those who are not dont want to do anything because if you act alone, you will just be targeted alone and achieve nothing.

So what is needed is safety in numbers, people getting together.

Also one thing that even individual can do is help create image that others are actively doing stuff.Like, seeing graffittis that call for action creates image that at least one or more people are feeling confident enough to mildly break the law for the cause. At least that is how i would see it. I’m not sure if peacefully protesting helps or harms at this point.

them having no control or forethought makes thing worse for all of us. In my opinion, its in essence same type of behavior as throwing trash on the street.

I wonder if they are testing out how far they can go

yet still people want to visit usa. personally i would rather visit north korea if forced to choose.

because what you buy is what you support. and a lot of people support this shit. Buying stuff from companies should be viewed as sign of endorsement of their actions.

the “i do what i want with my money” people are so annoying. i wish they would be on the suffering side for change, maybe it would teach a little solidarity for others.

constant propaganda and suppression.

it empowers the idiots and keeps those who can think down.

zero-k has terrain modification, which i havent seen on any other similar games. The units also have quite advanced ai, so less micromanagement. Though sometimes they get themselves in trouble but you can also setup retreat points for them.

Ultimately, no I dont think it was on purpose. Though there are some scenarios where it would make sense but personally I dont see enough evidence to support those scenarios. I doubt it was even accidental release.

If it was on purpose, then it was likely supposed to be a bioweapon. But it affected the country that the biolab functioned in REALLY badly. So unless the purpose was to cull the population there and maybe use that as cover to cause damage to rest of the world too I dont think it was on purpose. Also I doubt china would let foreign controlled viral biolab exist, so foreign influence is also quite remote possibilty. Foreign sabotage is plausible though but there is no way to even speculate about that. But if that was the case, i think china would be much more irate about things(and i dont think anyone could pull something like that without leaving ANY traces for chinese intelligence agencies to even suspect).

So the on purpose scenario would require that complete psychopats with taste for blood are in charge, accidental release of bioweapon scenario would mean complete idiots are in charge. One would imply more would follow, another that either idiots are no longer in charge or also more would follow.

There is also possibility of commercial reason; develop a virus, release it and sell cure for it. I think the “shareholders” wouldn’t let the disease to fade away this much, or become more mild. I’m not sure how fast they did develop vaccines for it though. If its simply not possible to go from 0 to something that can be distributed to masses so fast, then some work would have had been done even before the outbreak. But I think there would have been at least some hints at some point, cant keep stuff like this 100% secret forever.

zero-k is very nice, opensource too. I think it started as mod for total annihilation or supreme commander and developed into its own thing.

at this point i’m beyond being afraid. i just plain dont care anymore, maybe we even deserve what is coming for letting it happen

yea, though those games are not worth playing anyway. who knows what they do in the background, with root access they can hide it too.