Ukraine is currently fighting this war for Europe too. Spending money and lifes directly in a confrontation is massively more expensive than sending weapons.

Fuck VW. They sleep on providing cheap eCars and now the people have to suffer by losing jobs.

Enshittification continues

The 1% have become untouchable, thanks to technology. They also don’t have to satisfy us by ruling like a king, they just buy whatever they want and move on, like locusts.

The same reason as why Spotify does it. Content that they don’t have to pay any royalty for to anyone. They can keep 100% of the ads money. In a few years we’ll find out all these accounts were just created by the platform themselves. Legally.

Don’t worry, as a German I was in the same limbo. It’s often because media quotes someone from to political opposition and sells it as facts. Then you have all the boot liker media who treat CDU/CSU as ruling party even though they currently aren’t ruling. Cannabis was also difficult to understand because the law was put in place with delay and strong restrictions.

Good. I usually go only once a month but have since refrained because Burger King, Subway and Döner are much cheaper alternatives. All McDonald’s does is being a inflation driver, driving other greedy companies to eventually also increase their prices as McDonald’s established a new normal.

Google ruined their search and is now onwards to the other remaining working products. They are so dumb.

Rimworld, Terraria, Minecraft, Satisfactory, basically sandbox games, where each playthrough is different.

Basically. It’s a complicated economy issue. But lets say there’s not just monetary debt, but also structural debt. Our infrastructure is old, a lot has to be repaired by making debts. But they refuse to, thing is, the bridges will collapse at some point, literally, if you don’t build new ones. This will all come back to hunt our economy as no train will deliver, no truck will be able to use the highway as a lot of bridges are broken. Same with schools, you get less educated people, which then on average produce less wealth. In short term you save money, in the long term the world will move on without you. Every economist knows, a little debt is perfect as it works in sync with the capitalism we all live in. However the payment for the dept shouldn’t outgrow the economy, that’s the only rule. Making no new debts sounds good on paper, but no young person will say “thank you” when they grew up with bad education, a broken economy and an inhabitable planet. Now is the best time to make debts to fix big issues.

Germany’s autobahn bridges falling apart

Thanks to not making any debts. It’s all the infrastructure, I don’t think a single one isn’t about to break down.

A Place Further than the Universe

Even embedded ads will always be detectable because they always stick out. Be it audio, video, frame timing or the simple fact that an ad is always the same. They’d need to random generate dynamic AI ads and I don’t think we’re there yet, nor would most companies accept the possible public outrage when the AI content has a glitch or a different dynamic than what the marketing had in mind.

The vast majority of Nintendo customers doesn’t care about graphics and will happily buy a new 80€ controller every year. They are pretty resistant to negative elements, as they are very depending on Nintendo for delivering that special feeling no other on the market gives them. I don’t even blame them on that, it sadly just is a self absorbing construct. Nintendo doesn’t have to improve if fans buy 20 years old emulator ports for 80 bucks and the fans won’t stop buying it because it’s Nintendo, their childhood. I have a Switch myself and love the innovative controls and also am guilty to pay for a year of NSO premium just to play that one game on emulator. Sure I could’ve hacked my switch, but on the other hand it’s time investment to do so and I can’t bother.

I think it’s just a temporary thing. Suits love nothing more than forcing people into their own wallet garden. Sony will notice less people pay for PS+ and then will turn back to exclusives. Maybe it’s also only temporary, to hook people on Sony games and then reach again. I’d love to see it a permanent thing though.

You’re beyond help. Literally any action makes Moskau say “stop or we nuke” it’s a kindergarten threat at this point.

Defeating an attacker is provoking nuclear war? Get your head out of Putin’s asshole.

I fear they’re not going to stop here either. Soon we’ll read news about Minecraft mods and other fan content as well. Backup everything.

If you ever create a reliable tool to identify AI images, you automatically provide learning data for AI to generate images that get past the AI detection.

I’m hoping they sell this good stuff here too at some point. I haven’t stopped trying to find an alternative, I too would like to reduce animal suffering.