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One user, Latin script only = 675 Euro?

All in favor of mandating by law that devices rendered obsolete by an update must have their boot loader unlocked, raise your hands!

Never heard of it before, thanks for posting!

That’s how it all started for me: I had Netflix and Spotify from ages before, and then Netflix did their, “ads or double the price” thing and Spotify gave me more and more corporate music instead of what I wanted, so I dropped them both and switched to YouTube Premium for both music and video content.

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But his uncle was a top scientist at Harvard! /s

Sometimes I am ashamed of belonging to the same species as some of these monster parents. I hope the rest of this boy’s life is much better!

Population density is not really a problem: Most of the country is virtually empty, but there are a series of urban agglomerations that have incredibly high density overall. The North-East corridor (DC to Boston, more or less) is the most obvious one, but Chicago and environment or Coastal California are great options, too.

The “secret” reason why it’s not happening is public indifference and corporate sabotage. A campaign of decades of worsening public transportation has made people convinced that a high speed train would be just for poor people, which they imagine to be someone else. Also, eminent domain land seizures are slow, environmental impact studies slower, and both force costly changes from original plan that the public hears about as cost-overruns.

Final nail in the coffin: in America, for bizarre reasons, passenger rail has lower priority than freight rail. The freight rail companies don’t want to give up the privilege, and obviously you can’t have a high speed service wait on freight trains bumbling by.

I know the man is just throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks, but the whiplash from “civilizational erasure” and “back to the Stone Ages” to “buddy-buddy halfsies on illegal tolls” is a little much.

OMG I feel like when I found out that Borat was not scripted, which makes the movie 600 trillion times funnier!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Coward#Jizz

It is REAL!!

This is probably the tenth generation of event betting sites I have witnessed. There are so many of them because they all make the same mistake: they allow all sorts of bets, and then eventually something horrific happens, it turns out someone made big money on it, and the whole thing is shut down.

One day, one of those sites will rise up and it won’t allow betting on human misery and destruction, and maybe it’ll stick around.

I think the key here is to get used to react immediately, because the immediate reaction causes a reversal of the action. We don’t have to live with the increased cost and decreased service forever, because an immediate negative reaction means the service is restored to what it was before, with any luck. So everybody skips a downgrade or price increase at the same time, and until CEOs figure out the trick, it’s bye bye enshittification.

Okay, fine, I am ready to come out of the closet: I’ve been a YouTube Premium subscriber for two years. Lynch me if you like. I thought it hypocritical to crucify YouTube and have a Spotify or Netflix or Hulu subscription, and I found the cost acceptable.

Three price increases and a worsening of service later, I cancelled my subscription as soon as I received the email about a price increase.

Incidentally, I think that’s the thing to do: you get a price increase, there is no tangible benefit to the increase, you immediately drop the service. None of that “Whatchagonnado?” stuff. The only thing these services react to is an instant drop of revenue. You can live for a month without Spotify (or YouTube Premium), they can’t live for a quarter without subscribers.

We always have to remember that the short-term focus of modern capitalism is their weakness: a stupid mistake, a sudden drop in revenue, and the CEOs are flying out the window faster than Putin’s generals.

To be “fair” to hard-line settler types, the mood of the world is swinging so strongly against them and their regime, this might be the very last time they have a chance to get what they want.

Hopefully, they’ll never find a world again that is as complacent as it is now.

A’right, this is disgusting, but it’s really not Reddit’s fault if a Grand Jury requests evidence.

So who are they going to levy war against?

Mostly, it seems, that feeling of emptiness that invades their soul when their bank account hasn’t grown by 20% in a day.

Pretty impressive that they had the overcapacity to do that while the Russian Spring offensive was in full swing.

Also impressive, although for opposite reasons: the ability of Russians to be sent to near-certain death for a year’s wages paid out to the widow or parents. I keep looking at my family and think, “I’d die for your life, but not so you can have a new car.”

It feels like Putin organized things in such a way that societal collapse is more likely than a popular uprising against him.

It’s so weird that all these dictators make plans that include burning down the civilizations they belong to if they themselves go under. What I mean by “it’s so weird” is not that they do, it’s that we know it, we know the kind of people, and we still manage to elect them into office. And then reelect them, and the we are lucky if we can figure out a way to get rid of them before they abolish elections.