How does this look from Nintendos perspective? Is the problem of piracy worth this anti-piracy effort?
Nintendo has been screwing over their customers for many, many years and their punishment has been record-breaking sales. I can't think of any malicious behavior Nintendo could perpetrate that would prevent people from buying their consoles. So what incentive do they have for not doing this shit?
An example where the business case is at odds with the best situation for the user.
Isn't that just capitalism?
Also do we have data that there is a stronger trend of couples "trying and cant conceive" versus "couples aren't interested in having kids at all"
Try taking a step back and looking at just the number of couples. Thanks to online dating, women are being more selective than ever and many men are noping out of dating altogether. Either of those conditions leads to fewer children but together it's a much bigger problem. And this is only one of many social changes that are contributing to decreasing birth rates.
you should if that guy is injecting his personal politics into the fucking tool you are trying to get information out of!
None of the answers I've received have any noticeable signs of being tainted by politics. However, I only ask fairly objective questions.
and when musk decides to say europe gdp is dropping because too many brown people are soiling the white maidens
At that point, I will purge the last remaining bit of Musk from my life and never look back. Luckily for me, so far none of Grok's responses have any references to brown people or white maidens.
grok is musk's personal playtoy that he interferes with so much it is now checking his tweets before offering answers and was recently calling itself mechahitler.
I can't stand Musk anymore, but for a good while Grok's answers were significantly better than the ones from the free version of ChatGPT. I haven't tried ChatGPT in a while, so maybe it improved or maybe other LLMs have surpassed Grok. Regardless, I'm not going to let someone's politics prevent me from using the tool that is currently providing the most utility.
economic numbers are published everywhere, you can actually go and read them yourself
I'm trying to do work. I took a quick break and saw an opportunity to make a quick contribution to the conversation but I didn't have the time to search and aggregate the GDP of all European countries.
So you're saying you don't have an ISP nor a cell phone plan?
Those are essentials, which is why I said I avoid subscriptions "every chance I can".
You don't make any purchases online?
These are not subscriptions and thus do not require cancellations.
You don't have utility accounts?
These are also exemptions since they're essential, although I wouldn't categorize them as subscriptions. In my case, I have had the same utility providers since I bought my house, so I've never had the displeasure of cancelling service.
No mortgage
Fortunately, no. When I did, they kept selling it to different lenders and each lender seemed to have their own Terms of Service. I never consented to having a different lender and I never had a choice in the matter.
Hell, my used car came with services I had to cancel and those companies still physically mail me new sign-up offers nearly a year later
I may be buying a used car soon and I will keeping a very close eye out for sneaky subscription services after your experience.
We really need better anti-harassment advertising/services laws.
I couldn't agree more.
The Military Might Finally Win the Right To Repair
With as many deadly weapons as the military has, I'm surprised it took this long.
I'll take that every chance I can.
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