No, sweeny does not believe in those freedoms. He believes in your freedom to give him money.

Specifically, Epic's financial interest here isn't their store. It's their engine. They want to sell ai features to developers. If you've ever heard Epic's pitch as to why you should use unreal, it's all presented in the form of having less employees do work. "Stop hiring shader developers, let the engine do it for you" "Stop hiring texture artists, let the engine do it for you"

Which, in and of itself isn't such a bad thing. But when the slop comes in, the quality goes down. And every damned one of us knows it. And he doesn't want us to know it, so his customers will pay for the new unreal features.

New version of Rectum now produces shit at 3 times closer to shit consistency benchmarks than previous versions of competitors Anus and Colon. Given that we've already decided that you just need more shit constantly and forever and will shove it into every aspect of your life, this must make you very happy.

We already have to cook our resumes for screening bots. There's going to be a lot more stupid automated systems crappily built on this shit we have to manipulate our output to please, and it will suck.

Unfair. It's modestly difficult to game.

Actual feature: it's got a reset button for dimwits with lots of money who are too stupid to learn how to solve one.

I don't personally understand it, thus it is magic is the defining logic of our time.

AI is the unmissable example, but pretty much everything about the current Secretary of Health and Human services seems to be another ideal case.

The only way to win is not to play.

I do think there is some tacit merit in the intolerably pretentious open source purist position. People find it annoying, but "If I don't control the exact source code running on my device, I don't really own it" does seem to be the resounding truth of 2025. And everything running in the cloud or a few specific social media websites just compounds the cost.

Every shitty business idea we could all see coming decades ago has come to pass.

The "minimum" spec is specified to run the game at 1080p low at 30 fps with upscaling.

The "recommended" spec is specified to run the game at 1400p medium at 60 fps with upscaling.

30 FPS isn't playable. It hasn't been for a decade. And at 1080p? What a clusterfuck.

Even unobservant parents don't deserve to have a child commit suicide, no matter how much you feel the right to judge them.

This is one of those recurring things in America where even things that already suck ass are proving themselves perfectly able to get worse to sell out what little value they have for pennies of extra profit.

AI is first and foremost about threatening people's jobs.

Not replacing people, it's not actually up to snuff to outright replace many real humans at work, but to say to your employees they'll be out if they don't stay cheap and productive? That's what the bosses love.

Debian unstable is no less stable than any other rolling release, and I've been running the same installation (disk moved between machines and cloned a couple of times) since 2004 with no catastrophic failures.

It's kind of trite and belittling to say this, but the problem here is that you're an idiot. But belittling you isn't the point, the point is you have a series of extremely limiting though-terminating cliches embedded in your head, where you short circuit any actual analysis with predetermined rage bait"

Ask yourself "What policy have the dems actually enacted that are 'concerned with undocumented immigrants' or 'concerned with [...] transexuals'?" and you'll come up with jack shit. Zero laws passed that do anything to offend your (entirely fictional) "blue collar american".

This is a center-right to right wing party with a center-left voting base in a political reality that desperately needs some actual economic planning to counter the death spiral of the escalating r>G phenomenon. The corruption is too rampant for that on the left, and the right is too goddamn stupid and obsessed with made up enemies to do it, so China wins.

Ultimately, I agree with you.

The dems, crippled by an attachment to donors who hate what democratic voters want are strategically incapable of anything besides bare-minimum maintenance of the empire and its alliances. Their major accomplishments of the last 30 fucking years are all center-right patches on immense status quo problems: NAFTA, welfare reform, obamacare, *vague hand gesture* "infrastructure"

Trump, on the other hand, totally satisfies republican donors with two words "tax cuts", and can execute any pet right wing project of his no matter how catastrophic or cruel.

This dichotomy is why we're 20 years into the Chinese century now.

Please?