About every other post I make proudly wears the (edited) badge. I feel you.

"It's muh heritage"

I mean.. did he ever know it?

They do, and it works because it is poking fun of the corporate hellscape we live in, which is whimsical. If they become real ads it will make the games less fun to play.

VR makes it even creepier with eye and head tracking. Not only will they present tailored ads, they will know which ones draw your gaze.

Oh hail no.

Nice!

#1. The CCCP is Soviet Russia. #2. The requirement is that Bytedance sells tiktok (along with it's proprietary algorithms) to a US based company.

I would much rather pay for windows than become the product with ads, AI, and analytics.

Luckily this is coming at a time where I can run nearly everything on Linux that I previously needed Windows for (with the exception of a handful of games in my steam library)

Cornell West and Jill Stein are proponents of helping the Palestinians, so I imagine one of them.

All the other, mainstream, candidates are vocally pro-Israel. Trump and RFK are more pro-Israel than Biden.

My ultimate hope is that Biden grows a spine on this topic, and draws some rules of engagement for Israel if they wish to receive further aid; however, they seem to have the US govt by the balls somehow.

As a US citizen I don't feel like I get a good ROI on my taxes. It's a small percentage of upkeep for public things, some below average public education, and a shit ton of weaponry.

This was something that brought the Democrats and Republicans together, in that both sides thought killing a healthy puppy and bragging about it was insane.

It would make more sense if you are a bot, but how precisely do you want the parties to collaborate on this topic?

Fragmentation is certainly accelerating things. One company tries something like price hikes, ad tiers, password sharing prevention, bundling, etc and sees no consumer pushback, then they all do it.

I don't think the OP is victimizing cable. They are just saying that these companies swooped in with something better that was cheaper to disrupt the industry only to end up rebuilding said shitty industry. Different players, same game.