That isn’t the point, is it? Why does the government and the people care about the profits of some company?

I’m afraid that this is a terrible take. There is nothing to stop them from making it into a separate company. It would break the monopoly because the same people making the browser won’t be the ones earning the ad revenue.

That they could have been so much better without Zuckerberg, Savage, Peterson, etc.

Figured out tags. You got my first!

This plus observing and learning from others convinced me that most people should not have children prior to the age of 30. This is time to grow up, party some, get established, and become yourself. Then you’re ready to parent.

Thanks for the nice words. I’ll keep an eye out for you in the future. Need to figure out Joe to do tags.

Yeah sounds like my childhood. My parents made my life a living hell then suddenly grew up and realized that everyone around them was broken. We have a better relationship but the damage was done long ago to me siblings and we still have problems.

I really wish that you had someone to add to the conversation.

Conservatives are often very insecure people who have never overcome their own childhood trauma or understood why they want children. That trauma and insecurity just gets passed down.

Yeah I’m afraid that the lesson is that Gen Z is not actually the future, they are going to repeat the past. What makes me sad is that they should have been the future but social media made sure that didn’t happen.

It’s always been that way. I am a state employee and can get fired and fined for listening to Spotify over the network because that’s making undue use of state resources. They only put these policies in place to hurt the small people, not the big ones.

They are not independent. They are under the rule of the crown. 4-5 years ago the governor of Australia, who reports to the crown, dissolved parliament.

Don’t kid yourself–it will eventually become more like Twitter once the entire planet onboards. Decentralization will help a lot, though.

To go after a loose group of reporters from different countries?

They aren’t in the United States. This lawsuit is in France.

The OED is like 150 years old with literally thousands of people scouring every possible source of English for any possible permutation of every word ever. It’s a reference for specialists, not public consumption.

A copy will literally fill a shelf. It comes in volumes with addenda releases periodically.

Wasn’t it always a subscription? You really would only have easy access in a university library.

I’d say it’s typical actually for a reactionary. The goal for him and his ilk is power, not policy. If he can’t have power, he doesn’t care.

Have seen it. Good managers walk in and watch their team for months to learn how things work before making changes. Bad managers walk in and change things before learning why they work the way they do. We saw that with Twitter/X.

You are right in that Steam would probably continue on just fine on autopilot. You might not be right by assuming that the sort of person who would seek to and achieve such a position wouldn’t let their own ego dictate every decision–change for change’s sake so that they can point at how wonderful they are at the job.