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  1. Re:Um on Jeff Bezos Confirms Amazon's Growth Is Slowing (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Equilibrium is the best state you can hope to reach.

  2. Re:Um on Jeff Bezos Confirms Amazon's Growth Is Slowing (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.

  3. Re:Hypocrisy on Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Left and right is a false dichotomy to drive divide-and-conquer so we fight each others instead of those who push this misdirection.

  4. US prisons = labour camps on More Jails Replace In-Person Visits With Awful Video Chat Products · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're all private labour camps at this point. Not that they never were either (chaingangs etc. building roads and railways), they just got more corporate.

  5. When are they doing this to Netflix etc.? on EU Charges Valve and 5 Game Publishers With Unfair 'Geo-Blocking' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    There are so many others out there guilty of the same beyond just games. The movie/series industries in particular. I am sick and tired of Discovery Channel's geoblocking of their online content which forces me to pirate if I want to see their content that they never released for Nirwegian audiences in the first place, specifically Mythbusters. How I would love to be proved wrong.

  6. Re:Proof of viability on Over Half of Norway Car Sales Are Now Electric (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >Norwegians have a lot of money they need to try to find a way of spending.

    Not me, even though I don't have any debts, I still have to pay ludicrous amount of taxes towards a government that is privatising more for each year. I pay 51% tax on my SME doing software engineering, and for what? Erna Solberg's private jet? Nothing is free here unless you are useless and live on welfare. It's really fucking dumb.

  7. Two words why it's not going to work out:

    Private investors.

  8. What do the remainers in the UK think about this? on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or did they think about this, or think anything through at all?

  9. Re:Full disclosure on vaccines on GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaccine Campaigns (slashgear.com) · · Score: 0

    Flu shots every year.

  10. Re:Legal activities should not be blocked on GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaccine Campaigns (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. Censorship is the worst part about this.

  11. Re:Full disclosure on vaccines on GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaccine Campaigns (slashgear.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    How much do pharmaceutical companies pay you to defend them online?

  12. Full disclosure on vaccines on GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaccine Campaigns (slashgear.com) · · Score: -1

    I am not against vaccines, I am against the abuse of them for the purpose of making people into addicts. Medicine should never be the business it has become today.

  13. Re:Norwegian politicians are not in touch with peo on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of what a certain American politician said hundreds of years ago, and what he said was absolutely right to avoid tyranny.

  14. Re:Politician != expert in their fields on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Plenty of rope and strong branches solves all the problems in the human world.

  15. Norwegian politicians are not in touch with people on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Where I live there is a growing gap between politicians and those who pay for them. They are becoming so out of touch with who votes for them it is like we are all just slaves paying for their welfare. It is making me insanely angry the 51% tax I have to pay for my small business. I am not getting anything worthy in return for what I pay, and there seems to be nowhere to complain to get my money back. It's like they're chaos agents to destroy the country from within, only to run off to the UN or NATO to get some top-paying roles other taxpayers pay for.

    Then again, one could make the argument they are driven out of fear, but fear of what, exactly? They do show traitorous behaviour, and the traitor is the person most afraid to die.

  16. Hypocrites as usual. on EU Citizens Being Tracked on Sensitive Government Sites (ft.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    One standard for them, one for us, yet the EU is somehow the perfect government system for Europe. Who really benefits from this? What was it like traveling and working and supplying and demanding in Europe in the 1800s? 1700s? 1600s? Has it become better, or worse?

  17. Signing laws to stop opinions on Vladimir Putin Signs Sweeping Internet-Censorship Bills (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is a bitch move.

  18. You can already pay in naturalia on You Will Soon Be Able To Pay Your Subway Fare With Your Face in China (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    The world's oldest profession just became government legislation.

  19. Oh, you seem unaware that registrars have been under attack for a variety of reasons, like Gab and that awful Dailystormer-site. Both have been deplatformed so much it seems almost parodical, especially Dailystormer, but it just goes to show those who will silence you will go a long way to do that, and they are powerful and influental.

  20. I ran a creative blog on Tumblr but then they started flagging my posts left and right so I left. Besides, my engagements were getting so low I felt it wasn't worth it anyhow. The issue now is that this censorship is coming to other platforms too, and as with Tumblr, it harms more than it does good, as I was not one who posted questionable stuff. The "worst" offender was a naked woman's thigh, but she was clearly drawn as an adult.

  21. No it isn't. The web-related part of it can quickly eat up a lot of gigs of memory even if you have no tabs open. I have no idea why steamwebhelper or whatever needs to run in such big numbers, and the cache just grows and grows. Then there is their handling of reviews, etc. The list goes on. I've released games for Steam and they are far from being perfect.

  22. Around to please gamers and further drive competition/exclusivity/etc. from consoles to the PC. I don't like launchers at all, and Steam and the likes are almost on the point of being malware with all the bloat and performance penalties they introduce.

  23. Re:It doesn't matter anymore on US Tells Germany To Stop Using Huawei Equipment Or Lose Some Intelligence Access (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You think too well of certain people. Paranoia + wealth = supervillainry.

  24. Anything that spies on you sends the results to the same database in the end, which certain alphabet agencies and Mossad have direct access to.

  25. *their