“many titles are designed from the ground-up to be rent seeking”

There is absolutely a connection between how shitty corporations are treating their customers with how likely those customers are likely to stop paying and start sailing.

Netflix in its prime was the GOAT, showing a very significant decrease in piracy. We’re only seeing a rise now because of the proliferation of streaming companies. No one wants to pay for 4+ streaming services.

I can’t remember the court case per se but it involved a self driving car hitting a pedestrian I think.

My cursory search on Google seems to now show companies being held liable for AI hallucinations, with one court case currently pending where an AI chat bot encouraged a teen to commit suicide.

Given our current administration and make up of SCOTUS I’m not holding my breath.

Courts have ruled that using AI allows companies to avoid liability.

Schrödinger’s corporations: corporations are people and and not people, depending on how much money they stand to gain or lose.

I’ve actually done this as what looks like a horizontal line.

It doesn’t seem to help though.

I don’t understand how the credit card industry is okay with this. Credit cards are unsecured debt that can be discharged through bankruptcy. Not only that, usually tangible purchases can be repossessed. If someone is addicted to an online game and uses their card to purchase digital assets, how are they going to make their money back?

The only thing wrong with this cartoon is that the MAGA hat holding the medical bill would be smiling along with Trump.

This is, quite literally, what they want. So long as their boot is on someone else, they don’t care if they are being ass raped by the rich.

I followed most of that.

But how I read it was “Fraud? Sounds like fraud. But the kind that rich people do and won’t ever get punished for.”

You’re asking on .world, where the instance admins take a “both sides are the same” approach in addition to a “no advocating violence” against the established order.

Iirc, permissions for iOS are required for devs to be able to use the functions/methods under those permissions.

So if the app doesn’t use them, they won’t show up as needing them.

For me, it’s Last Week Tonight and this past week was my last episode. Not because it’s not good. But because it makes me sad to have these facts thrown at me during a time when things are only getting worse.

I haven’t resigned to giving up. I just need to pace myself.

ISPs already do that here in the states. The court case is to decide whether they should shut off access.

Olive oil is pretty much the only oil everyone in my house can have. We’ve done butter and ghee but it’s not the right flavor for most things.

Sesame is too expensive. I hate the taste of avocado oil.

Vegetable oil is straight up soy which I’m allergic to.

Basically it’s olive oil or butter for me.

I fucking hate this timeline.

I don’t know about you but I’m sick of being on the team that follows the rules and loses to the criminals that completely ignore the rules.

Unless you really need that version, you’ll want to install 26 when it comes out next April (upgrade should be very seamless).

I have a soy allergy too and don’t react to lecithin. My understanding is that by the time the soy is processed into lecithin, the “thing” you’re allergic to is pretty much non-existent and that’s why you don’t react to it.

This isn’t the case for all people who are allergic to soy. This is not medical advice.

Don’t get too hung up on it. It was an fyi not a “stop what you’re doing you newb!”

We need people to test the latest, bleeding edge. So you’re helping with that! But since you’re new to Linux I wanted to make sure you knew what you were getting yourself into.

It’s not that odd numbers are less stable. It’s more that they aren’t supported for long term. Many of the lessons learned are pushed to the next version though so either way you’re doing good.

I’m not a PC gamer so for me stamina and longevity matter more to me than bleeding edge technology.