They’re not braindead; they’re making money. They got the war on drugs hooked up just the way they want it.

Doing the right thing is perfectly possible and perfectly easy until there’s a financial incentive for it to not be possible or easy.

Ironically, “Computer Science” is the degree most likely to get you hired by the HR rep, but is also the degree that is least helpful in any practical application because it’s purely theoretical. Everything taught to you in Computer Science is abstracted from you and handled automatically by the compiler, API, OS, or protocol.

Jeep pioneered it. BMW is perfecting it.

Isn’t this the default Mac behavior?

Do you and what’s best for your health. You can’t please everyone. When it comes to some things, if people can’t understand, it’s their problem, not yours.

How much do you want to bet the Terms and Conditions allow this?

What stops them from doing it again once a new order is placed?

Yeah, but it’s won by appealing to the moral sense of the masses. OP specifies “the people who were oppressing them”.

Yeah, basically. Between MLK and Malcolm X, no matter how you wanted to resist, they had you covered. That’s why the government killed them both.

Half of those movies were directed by the same person, Uwe Boll.

Post the part files

Or Data’s brother, Lore

MGS4 Raiden

Idk about the rest of the software on this list, but presenting gimp as an “alternative” to photoshop seems disingenuous to me.

Gimp is an alternative to photoshop in the same way that a 56K modem is an alternative to a 1 gig fiber line. Yes, they technically do the same job. But to suggest that your experience is going to be comparable to photoshop is a stretch.

“Don’t make assumptions about her, that’s wrong. Anyway, here’s an assumption about you.”

That’s what you sound like.

I never thought he was my friend. The CEO being my friend is not a requirement for running a company I don’t mind buying from.

Do you refuse to buy toilet paper because no TP company CEO is your friend either?

So is playing Counter Strike

It’s a scapegoat used by scoundrels to assuage their guilt and escape accountability for their behavior. “It was fate, it was destiny, it was going to happen anyway, nothing can be done about it, so no reason to feel bad.”

Because once that guard sees a robbery is happening, all they’re going to do is call the police anyway. Why pay a person to sit there all day long when the teller will trigger the alarm just as fast, if not faster?

Do you fully boycott Coca-Cola, Amazon, Meta, Johnson & Johnson, Dupont, Monsanto, Sysco, Chic-Fil-A, and Nestle too? They all donate considerably more money to authoritarian regimes.

I like having the option to pack up and leave a place if I don’t like the laws there. Already did it once, worked out great for me. YMMV.