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I don't mind dumb ads (no tracking, etc), but it comes down to enshittification. Microsoft is making money at our expense.

Based on my interactions with Microsoft support, it makes me feel a little better that I get the same treatment as the CEO.

That would be on brand for The Economist.

That gets in the way of making money though.

This is what a steady diet of conservative, increasingly monopolistic, media does to a populace.

At least they think it's up since 2025. I wonder how this will inform their votes in November...

This is putting mildly. The most damning bit might just be that Republican voters saw all the corruption of Trump I and decided they wanted more.

In my experience, executives get special treatment.

We won't know without A/B testing, but I suspect aesthetics mean nothing here and, for example, someone isn't going to turn down playing GTA VI if the only button between them and the game says "purchase license" as opposed to "buy".

I'd rather have my rights as a consumer protected or get something tangible for giving them up (like cheaper games) than introduce even more legalese into online shops.

The centerpiece of their advertising campaign at some point was "born from jets" with fighter jets flying in the background.

I don't go back quite to the 90s, but this has been true across my entire experience working in a few big multinationals (including one in tech).

Companies will do what Wall Street wants (Wall Street likes layoffs), and at a certain level, they don't want unemployment to get too low, lest their workers gain too much leverage.

A web search surfacing contemporary newspaper articles suggests this congestion charge was proposed, but never actually implemented.

This would be more interesting with video rather than audio, no? I guess it depends where your security cameras are. Are there options for that as well?

It's funny when an article takes a stand against an unsourced group of random anonymous people on social media.

Anyway, (not just) Japan has a long history of art with a juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern. The prints are talked about in the article. This might be what a lot of subsequent anime's aesthetic is based on, as we also see stuff like Goemon Ishikawa XIII (a throw back to 16th century) in the Lupin III anime (which is set in contemporary times). It's a trope all its own.

Even in modern art, we see power lines as a focal point of art, as in Arthur Dove's work: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488540

It is what you make of it, you can just consume or take a creative role, but once the price/attendance ballooned ~20 yrs ago, they kinda changed their audience. You might have a local group that does similar things if you want to get a taste without such a large commitment.

We got into this mess long before this, when we decided it was ok to trade freedom at the hint of protecting children, without considering the actual merits of the situation. Look at the horsemen of the infoacalypse.

Then we decided we should punish ourselves rather than expect/require big business make safe products.

Lots of people in different places are pushing back on these things. Texas has a gubernatorial election coming up in November. We'll see if Texans are ok with surveillance or actually want to punish the people responsible and restore some sense of freedom.

It's not about catalytic converters. It's about installing surveillance cameras and probably getting kick backs from flock.

I don't know about all this. I want a society where I have healthcare and can safely eat a salad.

People shouldn't be shocked that employees of the US government can deliver things ahead of schedule and under budget.

The problems are that anyone gave Musk/doge the time of day and that we're too used to the president giving no bid contacts to incompetent donors.

Different models have different licensing. Maybe open ai or anthropic doesn't claim ownership of output today, but some companies do. https://www.recraft.ai/docs/trust-and-security/ownership

I imagine few can afford a legal battle...

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I hear what you're saying, but there are issues when you continue the line of thought one step.

Imposing Windows implies requiring agreements to unknown eula's at the time of purchase. Consider Windows is there in the first place because of anticompetitive practices. Stuff like this is unreasonable too. I think moreso. I guess it comes down to if you think consumers or big tech is more deserving of protection.

These aren't case sensitive, which is good, but some are presented as CamelCase and some are separated-by-hyphens. They should pick one and run with it. I prefer no hyphens...

Don't discount that tech billionaires pursuing this are themselves nihilistic. They would enjoy the fruits of our labor and will not care what comes after they die.

Based in your first two sentences, I think your understanding of UBI is mistaken. You seem to be under the impression that people don't or can't have a job when there is UBI. This is not the case. If you don't believe me, just look at Alaska.

Everyone enjoys some sort of benefit, tax break, subsidy, etc. from the government. UBI is the same thing in the form of a regular, universal transfer payment. Nothing more, nothing less.

If the goal is to make things easier for everyday Americans, replacing these with universal schemes would do that and will also prevent abuse and fraud (most of which comes down to forgetting to dot your lowercase j on work requirement form #27).

USA is basically a uniparty with respect to foreign policy. It's not like Biden restored US foreign policy wrt pre Trump tariffs on China...

It's a nice thought, but I wouldn't "bank" on it.

Your bank robbery situation is not apt to OP's question. It's pretty much the opposite situation. OP suggests a situation where the operator is probably using the tool in good faith but the tool appears to be operating in a faulty manner. For some more context, Toyota faced criminal penalties in the US for their unintended acceleration issues back in 2010.

For games like Lemmings:

Rat Trap/Krusty's Fun House (available on Amiga just like Lemmings)

Chuchu rockets

This is really getting into the weeds, but there is also the Japanese game Bazaru De Gozaru for the PC Engine CD (TurboGrafx 16 CD)

Enter the Void. Not that's an amazing title sequence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNtxgxYY7sI

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/61211/enter-the-void-title-seque...