They're not keeping the four teams, either. They bought at least 1 of those companies solely to destroy the competition.

Too bad we don't enforce antitrust in this country.

For people who want to exist in the future, also known as humanity.

If you spend your mod points on me you can't spend them on someone who gets less karma than I do.

I've been working with Linux for many years and Windows even longer ofc, and Windows is a massive PITA all day every day.

I want a signature, nothing else. I don't give a fuck about achieving anything, I just work here and get paid for it.

It sounds nicer. Just like firing and layoff sounds bad, rightsizing is so much more ... correct.

So do I, but if they tried to implement some bullshit like that here, I'm out the door.

We are decidedly not preemptively reducing labor. We have already increased productivity 20 fold. A 20% reduction in labor time is hardly an insane demand in return. All the workforce wants is 1% of the 2000% increase.

FFS, we can't even have A SINGLE FUCKING PERCENT of that gain? For real?

Same question for you, but about Windows.

People are always whining about how you have to tweak stuff to make Linux work. I have never ever had a Windows system where I didn't have to tweak registry values, manually edit config files, etc. So it's a valid complaint, but not about Linux, only about computers in general. The only place I didn't do a ton of that was the classic MacOS, and that only because there was less tweaking available and you just lived with it being terribly limited.

Those young people need income as much as anyone else, so what happened there was that your employment was so terrible that they were able to find something better and it was worth doing it even though they were already hired by you.

They also don't owe you notice by any reasonable measurement, since you don't have to give them any. That's what at will employment means. Employers have set the standard amount of notice at or near 0 days by terminating people with that little notice as their SOP, and buying laws that permit them to do that. You got what you wanted, now you don't want it? Bummer for you, but you created this.

Frankly, it is both. Blackstone notably bought up the starter homes, but a lot of the bigger ones have been purchased by boomers to run as unlicensed hotels through airbnb. I know one woman who lives in Eureka who owns four or five homes which are exclusively used in this manner. With the vulture capitalists buying up the starter homes, and boomers buying up the bigger ones, there's only apartments and mobile homes left...

For a percentage of people this would not be harmful. You could identify those people because they would reject it as fake.

For the people who fall for it, it will be immensely harmful to their emotional development. It will confuse their whole concept of life and death. Death is part of life, and so is learning to accept it. Fucking with your mind with charlatan's tricks will only have negative outcomes. This is the waifu pillow equivalent of dealing with death.

This is becoming increasingly common in the USA too, and we also have a social credit score. It's called your credit score, and if it's not good you will have difficulty getting a job, renting an apartment... Except here it's more of an antisocial credit score since the only thing it cares about is whether you've been a good economic citizen.

War's not a problem which can be addressed through language, so what you said is silly. If you forced changes in language somehow which made it less violent, people would just invent new words for violence which glorify it even more.

So you mean they could pass down history in an oral tradition for thousands of years?

I think it is different. In those situations either there is some spiritual connection that actually exists; or its all in their head.

If its the former than we would hope in most cases if the person is actually being morned it was someone who loved them and their motivation would be for the living to go on and live well. As Christian for example, we have 'til death do us part' in the marriage vows because once you are in the kingdom there no longer exists a need for those types of human relationships, your relationship is communion with the Lord. As to if the dead, prior to the second coming, would or would even be allowed to have interest in the goings on back here on earth is a subject of theological debate.

If its all just in your head as far as mourning goes, well then interacting with some mementos and working through thoughts and feelings about your memories of that person is quite different than some interactive simulation of them, which is potentially ingesting new material and generating new interactions with (not) really that person. Think where this can go - you could have a falling out with your deceased grandfather because of his support for a political candidate that wasn't even born before he died. Alternatively you might be able to project your views onto or decide that person would have 'evolved' so you can have your long dead mother tell you how you are being a responsible, good boy, for pressing your girl friend to murder your child still in her womb.

All of this will be quire 'different' and frankly non of it healthy.

You bought a smart device that only works when connected to its maker? So... technically... you're not turning your lights on and off, what you do is to ask the maker nicely if he would be so kind to turn the lights on or off?

I have nothing to say that hasn't already been said.