Calling all their critics salty pirates is one surefire way to pit people against you real quick - especially when you're already pretty reviled by the gaming community
I'm always surprised by how many people would sooner rather run up their heating bill all winter than even contemplate putting on extra layers (or even just thicker/longer clothes).
I had a friend who would wear pyjama shorts the whole winter and always complain about the cold, as though putting on a dressing gown or just normal PJ pants wasn't an option.
Like obviously you should use heating if you need it - don't get risk hypothermia to save a buck - but I've never understood the rational behind people's refusal to actually dress like it's winter.
Part of me wishes that the oil would run out sooner to give governments more urgency to actually do something about our fossil fuel dependency, cause apparently the increasingly apparent effects of climate change just aren't enough motivation.
Honestly. Working with academics in science was so annoying at times exactly because too many academics talk just like this.
Too often I sat with them wishing I could just tell them to speak plainly FFS - unnecessarily complex, overly specific jargon doesn't make you look any better, it makes you look smarmy.
The irony of the right wing insisting on jamming it to songs that mock or completely oppose their ideals by bands that would hate their guts is palpable
IMO this year has actually felt comparatively longer than the last few since the C-19 lockdowns started.
I actually feel like I'm late into the year, rather than having just blinked it away.
Of all the things to target, did they really have to go for the IA - the organisation that literally got into trouble with the man for helping children get access to books during the pandemic.
Does this hacker kick puppies and steal sweets from babies too?
Exactly this. It's a completely arbitrary rug-pull made especially repugnant by the fact you can circumvent it quite easily with basically no loss of functionality.
While modding Win11 is a perfectly legit option for home users, it's not for businesses - as such many, many business-spec computers will be "obsolete" once security updates for Win10 end.
Best you can hope for is that these computers pour into liquidation markets giving people the chance to buy decent quality PCs for cheap - but more likely they'll become e-waste
I have no doubt Alphabet Google would try to delay any breakup as long as physically possible, but this would be a huge win against big tech if it went ahead.
It'd probably be quite the win for public privacy as well, as it'd decouple these widely used platforms from Google.
You telling me that a corrupt conman businessman with basically no morals is taking blatant quid pro quo bribes as part of his presidential campaign?? I can't believe it! /s
Seriously though, it's not a danger of him using the presidential seat for corrupt motives, it's a certainty.
The world got lucky last time that his shoddy handling of Covid basically kneecapped his plans, but even then he still did near irreversible damage to the executive branch in the form of the now also blatantly corrupt SCOTUS judges. Don't give him a second chance.
Man, my brother is the worst for this. Has multiple pairs of headphones, usually at least one on his person, and STILL will blast his Instagram reel on speaker as if everyone around him wants to hear his doomscrolling and brainrot memes
Calling all their critics salty pirates is one surefire way to pit people against you real quick - especially when you're already pretty reviled by the gaming community