If Meta gets away with this or gets off lightly, I’d love for this to set a future legal precedent for future piracy cases.

Unless they just straight up want to say “Piracy and copyright laws only apply to poor people” in a court of law.

The Crysis games have been dead to me since Crysis 2. Crysis 1 is still a blast to play even today.

Everything always comes back to slavery in the USA. Always.

No. He has effectively coup’d the US government from within.

$10 isn’t a high price, but it starts to hurt when you lump it on top of all the other fees and expenses most people have every month. Also that’s in US dollars - here in Canada, for example, the price is 50% higher before tax. It adds up fast.

My email is used constantly every day for both personal use and my self-employed business. It costs me $1.50CAD per month.

I live in a city that has removed nearly all of its public toilets in the denser urban areas. There is shit and piss everywhere and alleyways between buildings absolutely reek like sewage.

And I’m 100% for it. If our city officials want to remove public washrooms then this is exactly what they deserve to happen. Would be great if folks could drop a few logs around city hall too.

Going to quote something I said on another account a while ago:

"A mixture of people voting with their hearts instead of their minds, and people being very ignorant about politics.

The end result is a voting population that will vote based on knee-jerk emotional reactions and are very gullible and lead astray by false promises, lies, and misinformation. Basically: They are extremely easy to manipulate.

A lot of Canadians feel Trudeau is a shit, do-nothing politician and PM and that he has to go, and I frankly agree with them. The problem, though, is that they let their hatred of the PM (and his party) blind them and they end up voting for a party which has no functional solutions to everything they hate Trudeau for. The problems that Trudeau has neglected DO need to be taken care of but the CPC doesn’t have a platform or policies to actually deal with them. Voters don’t care though; they just want Trudeau gone. They just want red party gone.

Two or three years from now when PP is prime minister - his ratings are going to tank and people are going to start hating him. The scandals will start stacking up and media pressure on him and his corrupt ministers will continue to grow, and many who voted for him will be crying that they got betrayed. Maybe some day people will learn to stop voting for con artists but I doubt it’ll be in my lifetime."

I am so very tired of ignorant, naive, and irresponsible voters.

A noodle!

I’d never use a Microsoft mail client anyway. I use Thunderbird.

Scored a working Commodore desktop calculator for $25. It needed a light cleaning and I replaced the cracked battery tray but the electronics and VFD tubes work great.

I mostly avoid major world news now for the most part. I prefer to read hobby-specific news and local news, such as my municipality.

I made a post about this nearly a year ago. It’s unfortunate that this still persists here.

Forgive me for the pessimism, but I sincerely doubt that they honour any opt-outs. Meta has shown time and time again that they’d rather just pay fines as business expenses instead of abiding by law(s).

This. Numerous industries in the US make use of forced prison labour.

Eat them to absorb their powers.

Goddamn, I wish we could act like our own independent country for once instead of just puppeting whatever the US does.

Appeasing shareholders and investors.

Microsoft has so many spinning plates up in the air right now and they have no idea how to handle them all. Eventually they’re all going to come crashing down and smash on the floor and it’s not going to be pretty.

Most of the beloved Arkane team had left long before the closure.

This is a big problem with all sorts of disposal methods. It’s the reason I see so much stuff thrown out when it should be recycled or dumped in bushes or forests. If you want someone to do the right thing then you can’t make them drive across a damn city and/or charge them a disposal fee when they attempt to get rid of it. It sucks seeing mattresses dumped on the side of the road or on quiet hiking trails, but I know the reason they’re there is because getting rid of one properly is like $50-$75 which is goddamn absurd.