[-] query@lemmy.world 64 points 3 months ago

An armed society is a society where people are looking for someone to shoot.

[-] query@lemmy.world 111 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I thought the idea was that Republicans are actively working on destroying what has been working fine and is benefitting lots of people, not just on preventing more progress.

[-] query@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago

While it's sad to see all these games begin to die a slow death, in reality, many of these titles are incredibly old and on last-gen platforms such as Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

Yet much older games are still playable without functionality loss.

You don't need upgrades to online services. You need to stop locking down games.

[-] query@lemmy.world 286 points 8 months ago

Still seems way overpriced. Doesn't even have name recognition anymore.

[-] query@lemmy.world 77 points 8 months ago

A monopoly trying to lock in browsers isn't going to last in the EU.

[-] query@lemmy.world 58 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And every now and then they'd go on a rampage destroying other people's and eras' art.

[-] query@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For personal use, but corporations trying to profit off of it could be fined 100% of their assets if need be.

[-] query@lemmy.world 79 points 9 months ago

In 2003, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy. Dial-up connections were still the default and YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail had yet to be invented.

I'd argue it had reached its prime. Websites were just websites then, not data harvesting machines.

[-] query@lemmy.world 129 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They shouldn't. They're not apologizing for what they're doing, but are behaving like politicians, changing the rhetoric to try to get people to like what they're going to do anyway.

[-] query@lemmy.world 187 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

People are kept in prison without a conviction, for not affording bail. Owing a thousand times the lifetime earnings of other people should at the very least mean all your accounts and holdings are frozen, and you can't spend anything without getting independent approval every time.

[-] query@lemmy.world 73 points 9 months ago

Even if you had like no morals at all, that type of behavior has to disqualify someone from being a surgeon. They're sabotaging the work they're supposed to be doing.

[-] query@lemmy.world 99 points 11 months ago

Not doing business in a country that is not your own is the easiest thing anyone can do.

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