It looked like you were having fun when you did it, so I thought I'd join in, didn't I?

Obviously I can't tell you what was in their heads with any certainty, but somehow you seem pretty certain that you can. You just did exactly that, after all. More than that, from the very first sentence in your very first post you seemed certain that I somehow "know it was morally wrong", despite the fact that I haven't even made any judgments about morality. Why? Because I wasn't the one out there getting shot, bombed, or kamikazed at all over the Pacific. Nor was I ever at risk of being tortured and starved in a Japanese POW camp. Obviously a different time, place, and circumstance, wasn't it? Much the same way it was no big deal to walk in on somebody in an outhouse and plant your naked ass right next to theirs.

But from that air conditioned armchair you've fancied yourself a proper judge and jury for 80 years ago in the Pacific theater. If you want to call out war crimes done at a policy level, as opposed to actions of individual soldiers, the best example I can think of is when the US handed over some half-million German and Italian POWs to Europe under the full knowledge that Europe was going to force them into unpaid labor, in many cases on de-mining duty, which was, even at the time, a war crime.

And what does this have to do with Porsche again?

The statement presented was whether it was a war crime. The answer is a firm no, and I already gave it to you. How much more candid do you want?

Besides, I'm openly troll. That's about as candid as a person can get. I'm not afraid to play your game, let alone beat you at it. I don't need a moral high ground when the very bridge you're playing stupid games on was already claimed by me.

The problem with all of these platforms is not what what they're called or what they look like, or even how they function for the most part. The so-called "magic" is gone because these services are flooded with inauthentic content and behaviors. Everything is either an advertisement, propaganda, or influencer/AI slop. The signal-to-noise ratio is too low, which drives away genuine contributors and stops new people from joining and gaining critical mass.

The current state of social media is a reflection of the inability of its users to simultaneously discern what is inauthentic behavior and to free themselves of its effects. If you ask a reasonable person if they actively desire being lied to and manipulated for financial gain, they would say no; but when such deception is packaged in a tantalizing form, they find that not only can they not resist, they don't WANT to resist. Like an addict, they want and embrace the deception, to the point where they get angry at anyone who dares to pull back the curtain. The result is an abundance of weaponized and optimized inauthentic content that is being used to manipulate and monetize.

So no, bringing back the "Twitter" name and functionality is not going to do anything, because even before it was made into the hellscape that is called X, it was its own special cesspool.

Social media in and of itself is not. Certain forms of social media have been shown to be harmful, but this doesn't seem to make any attempt to understand or distinguish which, rather decides to perform surgery on it using a pipe wrench to the face. This is what happens when you act on a moral panic.

Either way, let Australia do Australia, I'm only giving you my take on it. They already make highly subjective things like parental ratings on games, music, and movies law, which is de-facto censorship by virtue of the fact that it makes it impractical to sell anything even remotely questionable in that market when stores can't legally carry them. Exactly why Germans only get to play games for ages 5 and up on steam unless they leave the country. Then again, as every German will tell you, if you feed him a swastika after midnight on a full moon, he'll turn into a Nazi zombie, so maby it's for the best that they ban that kind of thing and censor stick of truth there. Every country has a unique situation.

Well, not rally. The first printers were typewriters with cloth-ribbons and these were subject to the problems serifs address. I would say from around 24 needles onwards and typewriters with film-ribbons, serifs became inferior.

Well, let's see what the data says:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...
https://fiscaldata.treasury.go...

So...tax revenue is not decreased, and neither is welfare spending. And the US ranks high on the list of countries in terms welfare spending as a percentage of GDP.

https://oecdstatistics.blog/20...

The country that ranks the highest is France, and as you can see, their poverty rate isn't doing much better than ours. Notice Italy ranks third, yet their poverty rate is higher. As you can see, welfare spending isn't a silver bullet.

https://worldpopulationreview....

Indeed, we actually do better than much of Europe. Notice Scandinavian countries spend less than France and they're doing much better. I don't know whether it's coincidence or casual, but their economies are more market driven than even the US. We also know that countries who have eliminated their markets entirely (i.e. socialism) tend to fare the worst.

Note also that your preferred system where the markets are semi-free and the government exercises a heavy handed control of the private sector, forcing it to make decisions in the interest of the state when it suits the state, sometimes called fascism, isn't doing particularly well in the states that use it, such as Russia and China.

Indeed, I hope what you wish for happens to you as well. Merry holidays!

No. You are too stupid to understand even basic facts. Telling you anything is a complete waste of time.

Hey, if the morons insist on giving themselves worse health, I am all for it!

That is because some (like me) have already done it, while the others cannot deal with reality.
 

And nobody can afford these things anymore and idiots like this one need to scramble to undo their bad ideas.

I hope these kids remember the assholes behind this when they become old enough to vote.

Hahahaha, not. You cannot get away with selling slopmakers long-term.

Well, better late than never.

It is legal to do so in the EU, BUT you must make the full process that generated that price transparent and you must state that it is a personalized price:
https://europa.eu/youreurope/c...

I guess that pretty much kills the idea in the EU as it relies of customers not knowing. Anyways, have fun with your anti-consumer version of capitalism! So much winning! Just not for you...

You are projecting. How stupid.

Hahaha, no. Full regulation would work nicely. I guess you have no idea how tightly the non-crapto part of finances is regulated.