It’s not a dev tool, it’s designed to force you to stay with the Windows environment by trying to regularise users to a proprietary intermediary management system.

So more unnecessary middle man trash designed to tie users more permanently to their OS choice. Nothing new then.

Why wouldn’t they, it’s not like anyone is making them act differently.

What does air smell like?

The corpos will get rid of copyright when it becomes inconvenient. Like when they want to use copywritten data to train AI models.

You can lead a troglodyte to knowledge but you can’t make them think.

I’ve got a better argument but it won’t hold up in court. If a company is making a profit then all costs of production, operation, and provision have been covered, every single shareholder from the individual worker to the CEO to the suppliers have all been paid adequately and fairly for their contribution, the consumers with the means and ability to contribute have, and I thank them for enabling the ability to socialise access to the product for the rest of the society that propped up the corporation so that it could produce.

If you want to argue that suppliers, producers, and workers haven’t been adequately and fairly compensated for their contribution then why is there a profit margin?

In fact, it’s morally acceptable to socialise the benefits and production of any corporation making a profit, though the law has this pesky tendency to call it theft.

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Are you free to learn or consume as necessary for your survival from the society you’re expected to grow to support? No? Then you have a need to pirate.

I’ll always support mandatory voting, the fine is $50 if you don’t, but we get a day off, voting booths are close, we have pre-polling locations for a week beforehand, and nationally accessible postal voting, just for that added convenience. It really is more of a hassle to not vote than to vote and the process rarely takes long.

When your system is built around mandatory voting it becomes mandatory to make it easy to vote.

And you’re right, apathy is a problem, but it’s a carrot and stick problem with plenty of viable solutions. You tell someone they have to have an opinion or lose $50 they can come up with one pretty easily. Then it becomes an education problem.

But those trying to subvert power don’t want fair elections where every voter has to give their 2c, or $50, whichever the case may be, because every non-voter is already on their team, they just have to win the rest.

I am an anti-theist. I am a follower of Jesus mythos. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi - “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

A Middle-Eastern Jewish Socialist walks into a marketplace…

As long as a company is making a profit all costs have been covered, all employees, suppliers, and producers have been paid. Those in society who have the means and the will have ensured this product exists and has been paid for and I thank them for their contribution. That allows the rest of humanity to enjoy the socialisation of their contribution to the masses, who have not the means or the will, but who ensure the rest of the system is available and working to support everyone’s ability to contribute.

If you want to argue that employees, suppliers, or producers aren’t adequately paid, then why is there a profit margin?

I wish I could say the same.

You’d shoot an ally rather than an enemy. You are the problem.

You think yourself uniquely cognizant, you’re not, you’re the typical American voter, and we all know how cluey they are because non-Americans know the failures of the American electoral system and their politics better than they do.

I’m not even American, but don’t blame Democrats for the failures of the other voters. They at least vote for progression rather than regression of Republicans.

That would be like me blaming superman for not being enough superman when there’s 9 lex luthors in the room. Fuck off with that disingenuous bullshit.

most people who vote care more about who wins elections than what our legislators actually do.

He says right before blaming Biden for the actions of the Republican senate, house, and supreme court.

Here in Australia we have a public holiday for voting, mandatory voting, preferential voting, and every school, and hundreds of other community locations become polling locations. I can walk to 3 from my house in less than 10 minutes.

Why did Americans vote for the system they have? Americans voted for first past the post, gerrymandering, the right to throw away their only voice. That’s not a great electoral system to vote for.

“Non-voters” vote too. They vote for what everyone else chooses for them, then they complain when they don’t get what they wanted.

Who else shares such beliefs or perspective?

I consider my statements to be objective fact communicated, to the best of my ability, accurately and specifically using socially agreed upon definitions as per the dictionary, ipso facto, I would argue that everyone who cares to genuinely understand and interpret what I’ve stated as intended would share this perspective given the capacity to comprehend it. Just as one understands gravity to the extent of their comprehension.

If you consider any of my terminology as irregular then I suggest you re-consume my existing comments with a dictionary on hand to assist your comprehension. Until you choose to meet me at a point of comprehension there is no point in further discussion, and asking disingenuous questions born of ignorance won’t yield useful answers.

You believe that because your understanding of my position is incomplete and you have chosen this as the point to switch from comprehension to belligerence.