Microsoft should go macro-shaft themselves.

Was McDonalds ever cheap in the first place?

Yes, but framing is important. Saying “Oh look what our perfect corporate buddies over at Taylor let us do even though it’s their call” (a huge lie btw.) vs. saying “We finally got this victory, we can finally do part of what we should’ve never have been unable to do due to corporate greed, thank you Taylor for getting some sense, it seems like your scrooges still have some semblance of a soul left” is a big difference. As always, the truth is somewhere in between these two extremes. However, I’m inclned to lean towards the latter more than the former on the spectrum.

Yes. Just as entering through an unlocked door isn’t trespassing.

Most of the sources also have copyright notices the model gobbles up, effectively making it more like trespassing and taking the no trespassing sign home as a souvenir.

In a few years they’ll charge you monthly for the priviledge of using/knowing what it collected on you.

I was wondering, what makes the modem that hard to replace?

I get that the embedded systems in cars are complex works of engineering, but I don’t see why there can’t be some sort of standardized physical interface akin to OBDII to be used to ‘upgrade’ the modem.

It’s not twitter it’s Xitter!

A game you paid for. On a console you also paid for. And you also pay for PS Plus as well.

Yes, yes it does. You xit xeets on the xitter.

I prefer xitter

What about privacy and bloat? Do you really need an integrated big-brother Clippy again? There’s a reason they got rid of that annoying little bugger 20-ish years ago. Even killed Cortana. How many failed experiments more do we need?

If you need AI writing, you have it in Edge or on the ChatGPT site. Will they add AI to settings to help you turn on all the bloat and tracking for you?

Like just give me my damn control panel which has a working search feature (unlike, say, Settings)

Nothing against gamification, but when they added lives about two years after they said they never will I lost any and all trust I had in them.

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When talking about Israelis killed, the BBC used the word “grandmother” 52 times, while it used it 32 times when describing Palestinians killed. Likewise, it used the word “murdered” 101 times for Israelis killed while only once when talking about Palestinians.

The rest of the rows are similar.

The intended takeaway is that Palestinian deaths are reported blandly, while Isrseli deaths are painted in a much more endearing light.

Granted, there are some considerations of possible biases towards the results. For example, maybe there were less articles about Palestinians and as such less opportunities to use the same word. Maybe there isn’t enough information flowing out of Gaza as opposed to Israel or BBC. There are also the more extreme options of the authors of the data trying to paint the BBC negatively and the BBC strategically painting Israeli deaths as more tragic and brutal than Palestinian desths.

Which option you take as the most plausible is your call tho.

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They are all webkit-based, but they can add their own integrations like Google account login for Chrome or Firefox Sync. So it would still be benificial to boycott if you reasonably can and are willing, especially with the recent App store developments Apple might even be forced to open up browsers as well.

Just try to look at the sky at night. Most places in the world you won’t see the stars and yet no one complains too much about the visual pollution

They aren’t meant for public roads, just like Teslas.

I foresaw the trademark thing About the thing about Disney claiming that because they used Steamboat Willie Mickey in more recent woks they can still claim copyright protections on elements of Mickey Mouse that were a thing in Steamboat Willie, I really don’t think copyright works like that.

Mickey in Steamboat Willie just looks… odd.

The ‘normal’ Mickey is still under copyright so not a lot was gained through Steambiat Willie losing copyright protection.

I mean they just need to slap a ™ on every official appearence of Mickey. Hell, they can easily say an abstract representstion of Mickey’s ears represent Disney and they wouldn’t even be wrong.