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This doesn't even touch on the fact that nobody gets to own anything anymore. I am guilty of it with Steam myself, but I also recognize the inherent flaw with the model.

Live service is a whole 'nother level above DRM though. You don't even get to say you purchased a license with a live service game. You can't install them and run them after the servers shut down. They don't want us to own things, just keep paying them forever.

Learning to learn is what the 12 years of babysitting we all go through is supposed to be doing. The fact you overlook that is why we have a >50% illiteracy rate in the USA. Post secondary education is 100% about learning advanced skills and developing the techniques needed for a career. Saying otherwise is why companies are looking for doctoral degrees for entry level positions and they can all burn in hell.

No, it's still true. They are being accused of being brown in the USA. Or being a political rival. Remember, the government can accuse anyone of anything, due process sorts out if the accusations have merit... Oh wait.

Captchas are really getting out of hand.

I mean, the whole photo is faked. That was a studio shoot with a background replacement.

One of my favorite stories about this was from an archeological investigation in housing where they found several homes where knives had been stored in the rafters of the house and all of the men in charge we debating on the religious explanations about how weapons and knives would have had to have been reveared to have been stored so high in the home. One of the female grad students walked in and looked at them all like they were idiots and said it was to keep them away from the children. There are no records of what the men had said in reaction.

They have turned life into an idle game and are bored now?

I was more making a joke that artists ALWAYS get the shittiest end of the shit sandwich. As someone with a BS and an MA, I have seen both worlds intimately.

So what you are saying is AI changes nothing?

I wasn't simping so much as arguing we have much more relevant set of billionaires to direct ire to.

Even in your example, he is helping get states to invest in medicine for their populace. Is it wholly altruistic, no. Could it end up as a net positive, possibly. I only said he was trying to get his karmic balance sheet to look better, not that he had miraculously become a good person.

For a microsecond I thought that said "microbeards" and I was very confused.

Eh, I would have agreed 20 years ago, but of late he seems to be at least trying to right the books before he shuffles off this mortal coil.

Besides, we have new oligarchs to shit on and blame for things and they are infinitely more culpable and shitty than he ever was really.