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There's more to it than that, but that's a pretty big factor.

The other two main things:

Windows is full of bloat/malware garbage that spies on you and does shit you don't need, and it gets harder and harder every year to figure out how, or even if you can strip this garbage out...

And all of Windows is a jumbled mess of 30+ years of spaghetti code at this point.

New versions of windows are not like ... ok, we're gonna refactor everything, build it all again from the ground up in a more efficient way.

More like a snowball that rolls through snow and mud and sticks and dead leaves.

Miracle it hasn't collapsed under its own weight at this point, what with so much work being done by temp contractors who have no singular consistent approach to anything, who tend to either not document things at all, or very poorly.

Mamdani's ideological approach may terrify some employers... the ones that are currently massively dodging taxes, paying way, way lower taxes, getting all kinds of tax exemptions and deductions, getting all kinds of no strings attached subsidies... from actual taxpayers.

The idiot capital class is obviously propogandizing in overdrive mode, but they also seem to be largely legitimately delusional about realizing how astonishingly subsidized they are by public financing, so that they can concentrate private profits.

'But it would be impossible to run my business without training wheels and floaties and a helmet all provided to me by the government!!!'

Ok fuckstick, don't care, sounds like a skill issue to me if you can't main as a capitalist without a bunch of handicaps on, either get gud or stop pretending you deserve your spot on the 'free market' league leaderboard.

Its not a meaningless web petition.

It's a formal, direct democracy style legal process in the EU, to get the relevant legal authorities to review and revise the laws that currently allow gaming companies to be greedy fucks.

A similar concept exists in many US states amd cities:

If enough signatures can be gathered in a defined amount of time, then the proposed legal concept that has been directly endorsed by enough citizens then is automatically either pushed to the legislators and courts to review, or to be included for broader democratic voting up or down on by the next local election.

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You apparently have no idea that initiatives and petitons can be more than just a legally non binding, essentially useless virtue signals on some random website.

In many, many parts of the world, something like an initiative serves as a way for the citizens of an area to bypass their own representatives and force them to directly engage with an issue.

If this initiative crosses the threshold, it stands s good chance at reforming the laws around games as a consumer product, from a consumer rights point of view.

Governments do actually have the ability to restrain and modify the actions and practices of corporations, by altering the laws that define what they are and are not allowed to do.

Further, because the EU has so many people, is such a large market for games... there is a good chance that if the EU reforms what game companies are allowed to do within the EU... well, developing an entirely different game for the EU and the US, totally different in the underlying internal design, more than just translstion/localization... from a business POV, it may end up making more financial sense to not essentially develop two games at once, and instead just develop a single, global game, that is compliant with with EU laws.

Go look into how digital privacy laws being different between the EU and US and other parts of the world are currently, right now, forcing many US based tech firms to alter their practices within the EU, and sometimes even in the US and elsewhere, due to the propagation effect of a huge market altering its laws.

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Another example of something like this is firearms in the US: California, and now several other US states, have passed laws stating that for certain kinds of guns, a magazine can hold no more than 10 rounds.

Prior to this, when such laws did not exist... not many firearm companies made and sold guns with only 10 round mags. Now, many of them actually do.

This has also occured at a Federal level with barrel length restrictions: Basically, you cannot sell a civillian a short barelled rifle, something that has a barrel less than 16 inches in length, or a total butt stock to tip of barrel length less than 26 inchds.

Before those laws were passed... you could buy those, companies could sell those.

But because a compact, higher powered rifle is the easiest thing to use in a confined space, for something like a school shooting... well, now all the guns have to be at least a bit bigger, so that they're more difficult to use in a 'moving from room to hallway to room' kind of scenario.

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Laws passed by governments can alter industry practices, thats the entire concept of regulation.

Laws and legal review processes can be formally initiated within a government by formal, legal, citizens initiatives, that's the entire point of them.

Go back to reddit

Hope Canada is ready for an American migrant flood.

It's the first one: "[...] We do not tolerate serious threats or calls for violence."

Cool.

So anyway:

Also uh no, no .world does not actually have any specific rule that deliniates the distinction you've invented about violence being ok in news posts but not in comments.

You're not proficient enough in English to understand what I'm saying.

You've suggested I buy a fascist shirt, while at the same time saying you would help me hit American fascists with a cudgel, when they all have body armor, military assault rifles, and armored personnel carriers.

... Despite the fact that I was not even the person who said the tree of liberty quote at all, but you keep acting like I did.

You've repeatedly insulted me multiple times by way of your poor grasp of English, I am bailing out of this conversation before I am as rude to you as you have been to me.

Its not that complicated.

He's been saying he's been working on his game for uh... 7 years now.

When what he has actually, very obviously been doing, is twitch streaming 10 hours a day.

Its the 'Elon is magical multi tasking super genius' bit, no, no obviously not, he's lying, he just likes to be able to claim the identity of game dev because it allows him to act superior and authoritative as a commenter on video games.

Dude is a fraud.

I fucking called this after the Crowd Strike catastrophe.

MSFT would start massively reworking their entire concept of who actually gets kernel access, because uh, causing a Y2K event is uh, really bad, actually.... and yep, that probably means the kernel level AC paradigm is no longer workable.

Fucking obviously duh, wow, turns out just letting any old 'vetted' vendor submit goddamned kernel level code updates without being strenuously verified each time is a bad fucking idea, wow, who could have guessed??!?

Meanwhile, FEMA emergency disaster shelter funds are currently being redirected (by noted puppy executioner Kristi 'ICE Barbie' Noem) toward building the 'Alligator Alcatraz' concentration camp by the Trump regime.

Nope, not making that up.

https://newrepublic.com/post/197148/dhs-kristi-noem-plans-fema-immigration-prisons-alligator-alcatraz

They are literally building a concentration camp in the middle of a swamp, with a literal alligator infested moat, reasoning that the alligators will eat anyone who tries to escape.

They're doing this with the money that is supposed to go toward flood and hurricane shelters.

McKinsey:

For when you have no fucking clue how to do your job, and want authoritative, plausible deniability about that.

Ok, lets say theres a news story about people calling for violent resistance against fascists.

Can that be posted?

Can commenters make their own statements of support for this, in that thread?

This is basic logic, these rules do not make any damned sense, they are obviously contradictory when applied in the manner you are suggesting.

Also uh no, no .world does not actually have any specific rule that deliniates the distinction you've invented about violence being ok in news posts but not in comments.

Find me those rules.

Also... if? IF you were opposed to fascists?

Implying this is a stance that requires deliberation and contemplation?

Pretend you're a brown skinned American citizen who just got fucking illegally kidnapped on fabricated charges and deported to a foreign death prison complex for the rest of your life, which will probably be quite short.

This has already fucking happened.

Does this remind you of any historical events...

... Hendrik, from an obviously German lemmy instance?

Anything involving gas chambers, ovens, work camps?

Anything ringing a fucking bell?