Foreword: I am not the person you replied to, and I also don’t agree with killing anybody.

That being said, I have to comment on this:

Killing them is just a waste of talent and experience.

I would argue they have neither. The people they employ are the ones with the talent and experience.

Take Elon Musk, for example. He makes big claims that sound plausible, but anybody who actually understands what he’s talking about knows that he’s only pretending to be knowledgeable in the subject. It’s the engineers and designers at Tesla that do all the hard work in bringing products to market, yet he gets the absurdly high pay package for doing little more than lying to consumers.

Right, thanks. I always get them mixed up

From a consumer perspective, if the choice is between C++ or nothing, or C++ and Electron, you take the application written in C++. They were probably already using C++, and most of the mature cross-platform UI toolkits are all designed around C or C++ anyways.

From a developer perspective… at least it’s not JavaScript.

GOG was recently bought from CDPR and is now owned by one of the co-founders, if I remember right. The focus shift towards finally giving the bare minimum of fucks about Linux likely has something to do with that.

Based on the wording of the screenshot in the post, DHL already paid to get it across the border and is waiting on OOP to pay them back their $450 before they do last-mile delivery.

Not paying them is a good way to get them to ship it back to the sender and refuse to deliver to the address until they’re made whole for both the import taxes and return shipping.

For those who aren’t aware, the same strategy is used by a lot of tech companies.

Apple tries to get people invested in their ecosystem during early education by selling cheap laptops and iMacs to high schools. The idea is to make students familiar with macOS early on, so changing to something with a significantly different user experience (e.g. Windows) has a higher barrier of entry.

Microsoft does something similar, but using their Office software suite instead of operating system. Discount education licenses for Office and Office 365 to encourage schools to have their students use it and become accustomed to its user interface and way of doing things.

Adobe does it with Creative Cloud in post-secondary institutions to ensure that people entering into creative roles aren’t familiar with any of their competitors’ software.

The decryption key for DVDs.

don’t forget the tax breaks going to rich fucks.

“This matters to me because I will be rich one day.”

— Delusional morons.

Yep. When talking to Russians who emigrated away from Russia, you will find plenty of stories just like your sister’s friend’s one.

What the tankies idolizing the country seem to not realize is that living there as a national is oppressive. Your standard of living depends on staying in the good graces of the government—good graces that can quickly be lost by appearing to go against them.

The United States government is working its way towards that at an astonishing pace, but saying Russia has more freedoms is a complete delusion.

Chinese, Russian and Iranian people don’t need us to fight for their ‘freedom’,

Oh look, yet another Tankie who thinks the grass would be greener where the lawn describes itself as communist.

How’s that “more freedom” been going for the Uyghur? Or maybe you meant the freedom to free-fall out a window when running as a political opposition to Putin?

Agreed on both points.

If it was GOG and not EGS, the reaction would probably be very different. But, because people already hate Epic (for good reason), writing an article that appeals to schadenfreude makes for some easy ad revenue.

People also shouldn’t be idolizing corporations. They’re not our friends; we’re only a means to an end for them. The best case scenario for us is mutualism, and the worst case is parasitism. All it takes is a change in leadership or a change in circumstances to go from one to the other, and a constant need for growth encourages the parasitic enshittification we’re well acquainted with.

But you’re all rabid to hate on epic

If I had to pick between buying a game on Steam or Epic, I would pick the one which did some good things for consumers over the one that stuck their middle finger up at us.

There’s no denying that Valve’s contributions to DXVK, WINE, KDE, and Linux are a self-serving way to ensure Steam remains relevant after Microsoft locks Windows into a walled garden. Even so, the end result was an overall benefit for consumers. We would have had something like Proton eventually, but it would not have come nearly as quickly without their financial backing.

What has Epic done? A bunch of free games that I still don’t have enough time to play and would not have picked up anyways, great. That doesn’t make up for the rest of their wannabe-monopoly, anticonsumer practices like making exclusivity deals to railroad people into using their store by making sure consumers are denied a choice.

Fuck Epic, and fuck Tim Sweeney’s self-aggrandizing attitude. If he actually gave a shit about anything other than his ego, he would have spent his time leading Epic Games to challenge “the Steam monopoly” by providing a better customer experience, not posting on Twitter acting like the messiah of PC gaming.

That 17% is just the people who whole-hog wanted to annex Canada. There’s an additional 16% that didn’t care enough to have an opinion on it.

Is 1 in 3 more along the lines of what you were expecting?

Or… two, if you have an Oedipus complex.

A thought experiment:

Suppose, for something to “better” or “worse”, it would have to surpass some absolute threshold of “goodness”. This would mean “betterness” is no longer transitive with “worseness”.

If this were the case, then it’s possible for American colonization to still be worse than Danish colonization without Danish colonization being better than American colonization. Neither would meet the requirement for being “better” and as such are incomparable, but both would be meet the requirement of being “worse” and can be compared in that respect.

Your response to being asked to cite your sources is to double down on not providing any whatsoever, and then following up with an ad hominem?

Yeah, this ain’t worth my time. The point of providing sources isn’t just to prevent the spread of disinformation, but to correct misinformation. If your specific source later turned out to be incorrect or misinterpreted, anybody could point that out and help everybody be better informed. That is especially important when making an assertion on something that already has active disinformation campaigns surrounding it.

If you want to contribute positively to public discourse, you need a better strategy for fulfilling your burden of proof than the modern equivalent of “well, how about you prove God doesn’t exist”.

Presumably, yes. The only thing Taco hears is himself.

[Citation Needed]

The admin used “fraud” as a justification every time the national guard or ICE was deployed to a state that didn’t want them. Unless you have something more specific in mind with verifiable and corroborated sources, claiming fraud is just doing their work for them.

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in order to protect Global Peace and Security, strong measures [must] be taken so that this potentially perilous situation end quickly, and without question.

Well, he is right about one thing: In order to protect global peace and security, strong measures should be taken— against his warmongering and imperialism.