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  • Hope this case won't be used against consumers in the future. If I want to use/make an extension that scrubs all affiliate links and cookies that should be legal, same with an extension that replaces all affiliate links/cookies with ones from someone I want to support. Advertisers and their partners have no rights to anything being stored/done on my devices.

    Not defending what Paypal was doing, but the real issue for me is that they had no intention of actually finding the best codes/discounts, not what they did with affiliate links.

  • It's a fair argument, I wouldn't call South or North Korea forcefully annexing the other reunification either though. One state would be annihilated, both in terms of its institutions and its culture. There's no unity in that, it's conquest.

    But maybe my view of the word is colored by German history. I don't know, it's just that calling what would be a horrible, grueling war "reunification" doesn't seem right, like an attempt at white-washing what would actually happen. Reminds me a bit too much of Putin's claims about Ukraine.

  • The re- prefix does have implications that go beyond any two states becoming one. Germany's case is a bit different anyway because it was external forces splitting the country.

  • Taiwan was never part of current China though and does not want to be absorbed into that state. Reunification doesn't sound right for what China would have to do to make it happen.

  • Their FAQ says that they haven't tested this with KVM switches but that it should work. PiKVM doesn't always work well with switches, hoping this will be better. Because off-the-shelf IPKVM switches all seem rubbish, overpriced or both.

  • The article doesn't really address the brand of revenge "feminism" I've seen on that sub and mostly frames it as women who want to become trad wives because it's easy. What I've seen is that they basically want to find sugar daddies while also really, really hating men in general, especially the "low status" ones.

    How did they get to that point? I suspect it's a variation of mean world syndrome, fueled by ideas like the poisonous M&M analogy (understood not as a call to be cautious but to treat every man as if they were bad) and seeing men and women as as coherent classes engaging in warfare. All watered down to simple talking points that fit in a punchy tweet. If men as a group do/don't do this for me then it's okay to be awful to any individual one because he's the enemy too.

    Hateful, dehumanizing thinking. So yes, they do mirror the Andrew Tate dudes pretty much exactly, including being trans-exclusive.

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey was rightfully not well received when it was first released. It is incredibly well crafted in terms of visual effects and has about 30 minutes of great, tense sci-fi in it. Shame about the other six hours (perceived) of tedium. Even in the late 60s people in ape costumes smashing things while the soundtrack goes aaaAAAaaUuuAaa wasn't interesting for more than a minute, don't even get me started on the stewardess, docking, moon journey or the damn screensaver. Which, yes, is iconic, but 20 minutes?

    It does make sense that people would get high before subjecting themselves to this and then put on a Pink Floyd album during all the tedious scenes.

    2010 is a better movie. It starts with dialogue and knows when slowing down increases tension.

  • Dark Messiah: First person action RPG where you kick Orcs into spikes a lot. Add some more gimmicks, more verticality and enemy variety, basically done.

    C&C Generals: Sequel was planned but canceled. The original still has a following, AoE2 had multiple profitable remasters. The genre might be more niche but it isn't dead.

    Bulletstorm: Stupid fun FPS with a ridiculous story, not quite a "boomer shooter" but a sequel could definitely profit from that current trend.

    Also Slay the Spire and Cyberpunk 2077, but those are actually happening.

  • Any number of models that can fit or balance on the Battlewagon can be carried by it. Any models which fall off during play are judged to have actually fallen off and the normal rules apply.

  • Make America Sick Again. But not, like siiick, dude!

  • Caveat: Having never seen those dumpsters, I have the nagging feeling that I could well be outsmarted by the bears.

    There's another factor though: The bear will keep trying over and over if it smells something in there, for hours if it feels like it. Tourists, meanwhile, might not even try again if they can't get it open right away.

  • Yeah, because a CEO is ultimately just another employee in shareholder capitalism. If the shareholders want more money, and of course they do, things will continue as usual after this brief, unplanned change on the board. I'd fully expect anesthesia not being covered to happen too, just not right now, they'll wait for marketing to says it's safe in a couple months.

  • even with the weird printer your aunt found in a garage sale

    Windows isn't supporting that anymore either.

    at-least feel familiar to the majority of users

    Start menu is at the bottom left of the task bar, you can start Chrome from there.

  • Wouldn't it be neat if companies weren't flocking to a few neighborhoods in a few cities, creating not only traffic jams but driving up housing prices as well? Isn't it silly how local governments are competing on who can throw the most money at private enterprise to get the new widget factory or tech campus built there?

  • That doesn't look like a Spot but one of the cheaper copies.

  • Just make peace, it's easy, just tell the invaders no, they will respect that and see the error of their ways.

  • In the case of MAGA it's more about Trump telling them it's the minorities fault.

  • Problem is that people are fairly easily told that their less-than-optimal situation is the fault of those people, regardless of it being true or not.

  • It may be more directed at them than you.