A lesser violation of privacy is still a violation of privacy. “It could be worse” isn’t a particularly persuasive argument

Can’t wait til DOGE doofuses get hold of that!

Good question. Reply to a different post. I have no idea why the app dropped it here. Sorry

Deleting garbage that the app dropped in the wrong place

LOL! Touché!

I thought the right to assemble and to communicate was a fundamental human right agreed by all UN member states?

Great gods. You sound like my father. That isn’t a compliment.

Now that I think of it, most non-native speakers on my experience can manage that sound. Those who can’t substitute /d/ like native speakers whose dialect doesn’t include it.

Does this really change anything for the EU? It reinforces the need to avoid US based tech, but they’re already moving in that direction. This may speed them along

I expect you’re right. I expect this was the plan all along. Since it’s unlikely Trump is capable of this strategic thinking, the question becomes “Was attacking Iran Netanyahu’s, Putin’s, or Miller’s idea?

Tangentially related: Tom’s Hardware has become unreadable on my phone with over half the screen converted by auto playing ads. Disappointing

Found EA’s PR account

Non-voluntary servitude has a very old, accurate, and well-understood term to identify it: slavery

Slavery has no place in any democracy. Full stop

Only if they really can’t return to power.

Isn’t he a Trump ally?

I first read it as “Build a Bear” and thought it was some kind of roll-your-own scheme

Sorry, sarcasm doesn’t always work in writing. Applying Trump’s tariff logic against the US, this is the way to make the US clean up their mess.

I know tariffs don’t work that way. You know tariffs don’t work that way. The whole freaking world aside from Trump knows tariffs don’t work that way.

Perhaps tariffs on US products could make sure that the US pays for the cleanup.

Ever?

They are, indeed, very very loud.

And I hear you about finding a different affiliation. But I’m not sure who’s still open to people fleeing the US these days