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Is that what we're calling PR-department-written say-nothing corporate lawyerspeak? "Decorum"? I guess when people get banned, and only get cited a vague "violation of our terms of…

It's not the buying or selling part that's the issue, but the closed-source, locked-down software on an even more locked-down computer (a.k.a. a console).

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How is effective altruism related? I skimmed their wiki page [1], but didn't find anything endorsing such actions. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

> An Xbox owner who did the right thing by buying physical copies That's not the right thing. According to Stallman, that's the opposite of the right thing.

You got your crude analogy backwards - it is the calculated, tactical PR-speak that is more like shitting up the public square, than the naive, honest-if-self-serving speech.

The article never explains - how is "tax-loss harvesting" different from simply "loss"? There is a paragraph saying that it's complicated [1], but nothing in terms of actual explan…

Yes, we've built a society where being two-faced and false is rewarded. The least we can do is temper our criticism when someone "fails" to adhere to that.

> rules are good because they ensure order, fairness and equality. They most assuredly do not ensure equality, which is exactly why there is such a push to eliminate standardized t…

It reads direct and unrehearsed, instead of like something where all humanity has been sanded off by legal and PR departments.

A particularly damning section: So, according to Emma, officers did everything they could, even to the extent of lying, to prevent contact between the families of Valdo Calocane’s …

Right. Instituting DEI mandates and quotas or facing legal persecution [1,2,3,4] was just "equality", but rolling that back, and banning explicit racial favoritism, is a "crackdown…

> regurgitated without any additional effort. Wrong. Great effort goes into ensuring only the desired statements are regurgitated, and the undesirable ones omitted: https://www.fox…

If only people reacted to surveillance cameras the same way.

> but it also reinforces Googles own scraping as perfectly legal. I don't like Google very much, but making it illegal to scrape public data enables way too much abuse, so this is …

Remove and securely overwrite, otherwise the data can still be recovered from the disk image. We have not made privacy easy.

In primary school (in Europe), we had a cafeteria, that served decent, regular meals, with one modest dessert. There were no vending machines, no child carried cash, only coupons f…

> Are you against the idea of European cooperation in general? Or against the implementation? I'm against ugly soulless buildings. Those buildings can't be a symbol for anything, b…

They should be fighting (and losing) legal pressure to be broken up into smaller companies, not consolidating even further. Maybe after the media landscape is at least as fragmente…

That does not mean they were the only possible choice. Personally, I find having my continent represented by them an extreme insult.

It's called "hyperbole".

> Designed to combat hate speech online, it mandated that major social media platforms remove "illegal content"—including defamation and insults—within strict timeframes or face he…

Let's look at those claims: "the vast majority of other children would belong to intact families" In 1975, the single motherhood rate was 15%. In 2015, it was 40%: https://en.wikip…