What’s really tiresome, and frankly depressing, is the amount of people who get conned by this shit. And they are so entrenched, it’s impossible to either reason or even empathize with them. It’s a brain disease. A cancer on our society, and we are all going to pay the price because of it.
Whataboutism and a straw man in the same sentence. Smells like speed running trolling.
The point, in one sentence:
If you are the product, not the paying customer, then not only is there no incentive to cater to your needs, there exists incentive to make the product worse for you if it means the paying customer extracts more from you.
Users of freemium software are basically nothing more than willing cattle. Housed and fed for free only to be slaughtered.
Maybe people just can’t help themselves? I fear we can’t have a fair and free market if people are so easily manipulated.
Democracy only works when parties hold each other accountable for the good of the country. Republicans have abandoned this since before Clinton. Blaming the Democrats for the Republicans moving the goalposts is the cancer at the heart of US politics.
I grew up with a Nintendo controller in hand.
There’s a very good reason I now game almost exclusively on PC. None of this is going to convince me to come back. Quite the opposite in fact.
OG had three CD’s, three major acts, across a pretty epic journey. Breaking it up into three parts is really not that surprising.
Personally, I love the expanded development of characters like Jessie.
How about we ban software in cars in general, beyond basic engine control.
If it’s such a problem, maybe we just collectively move on to ES or TypeScript nomenclature?
To answer your question “why only Quebec”, it seems it’s a law in response to the major data breach of Groupe Desjardins in 2019.
So basically, a law written in “blood”.
Protecting domestic industries from competing with China does nothing to strengthen it.
“Should you have to pay for online privacy?”
This is the wrong question to ask. The obvious answer is no.
The real question to ask is: would you prefer to pay for an online service with currency, or with your private data?
The concrete won’t even be cured by the time they need em.
An outcome that was on everyone’s bingo card.
FAFO almost 2 and a half years in the making.
… and so is thus inferior.
I don’t know about elsewhere in Canada, but here, Bell and Rogers compete directly in the mobile space, and Bell competes directly with cable, and all of those options have multiple resellers at half the price, thanks to CRTC.
Are the prices the lowest in the world? No. Can you tell a company to fuck off? Yes, you can.
I don’t know. The Canada described by OP might be a foreign land compared to the part of Canada I know.
and whether it’s a game or real life people stop cooperating once they think they are competing for something
Capitalism has a lot of problems, but the “competing” part ain’t it. Competition is the natural order of things, a large reason our biosphere exists and is self-sustainable. In the natural world, species and individuals compete with each other to ensure only the most adapted consume the limited resources efficiently. This is natural selection at play. Collaboration/symbiotism is the exception, virtually exclusively where species do not consume ressources.
In economic theory, competition is an important driver of innovation, and a source of bargaining power for labour.
If you want to expose the flaws of capitalism, I would start with unregulated capitalism, which brings antitrust/uncompetitive practices, worker exploitation (usually also because of uncompetitive hiring practices), and myriad issues around income inequality and equity.
Generative AI is not smart to begin with. LLM are basically just compressed versions of the internet that predict statistically what a sentence needs to be to look “right”. There’s a big difference between appearing right and being right. Without a critical approach to information, independent reasoning, individual sensing, these AI’s are incapable of any meaningful intelligence.
In my experience, the emperor and most people around them still has not figured this out yet.
Back in my day, Facebook was a way of keeping in touch with people you knew.
Now it’s just a shit hole.
Philosophically, restrictions on trans in sports is the one issue I will concede to conservatives.
That being said, we’ve got sooooo many other bigger problems to deal with. A government passing laws on transgenders in sports signifies a government that is more concerned with appearances and scoring cheap points than actually helping people.