But, they'll still allow anonymous reading of new reddit?
New reddit is a continuously dynamic updated infinite scroller. Those are actually very difficult to scrape in a meaningful way compared to easily indexable unique pages.
Reddit doesn't do it. Reddit is the owner of a private club, and they make money off the people who go there agreeing with explicit terms that entitle Reddit to monetise.
You're not making a very good point by looking back 16 years to find criticisms of Sony. Stop living in the distant past. Companies change.
Some don't however, for example Sony... yesterday (and far more related to the discussion at hand): https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
You now only own a license that can be revoked at any time.
And, of course, you won't be able to play anything if your internet connection goes down.
PC gaming has never looked so attractive. That is if you buy your games on GOG.
You don't own the games you buy on GOG, you only have a license to play them. The fact that there's no DRM enforcing you breaking the license conditions doesn't change the topic of ownerships. This isn't new by the way, this dates back to the early days of PC gaming.
But speaking of GOG it's worth noting that actually acting on license changes is something that is company specific. Valve to their credit have *never* deleted a game from your computer simply because it was withdrawn from sale without giving a full refund (and examples of where this happened were extreme: "The Day Before", and the other example was a
Sony on the other hand have a history of removing licensed copies of things you thought you own from your device. I mean here's a story from literally yesterday: https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
Why any idiot would buy anything from Sony is beyond me.
Your post is out of touch, virtually nothing runs with a read-only optical disc in 2026. You insert the disk and the first thing that happens is you're locked out of your game until you download a massive double digit GB update to your SSD. That's just how gaming is in 2026, physical media has been pointless for a while.
but lower angular resolution than Hubble's sharp, targeted deep-space images.
Not everything is about angular resolution. The Hubble is an old hat now. Let's talk JWST instead, that thing has an insane angular resolution. However it would be absolutely useless for the purposes of a sky survey. Much like a hammer is not a very useful tool for screwing a screw.
I will not accept one more surcharge, fee, tax or fine in the name of environmental protection
So you would rather contribute to the world burning instead of addressing the actual problem with a solution the French used in 1793 to address the problem of a ruling class? Why contribute to the race to the bottom.
Oh fun fact the place where the certain solution from 1793 happened is called "Place de la Concorde"
Back in the day Boeing and McDonnell Douglas were handed their arses by Concorde and didn't like it so yes, part of the reason was US protectionism.
So it was US protectionism that caused France banned Concord flights over land blocking the use of a French company's product but not Boeing and McDonnell Douglas?
I think you are letting your bias do the talking rather than any of your actually functioning braincells. This had nothing to do with protectionism.
So just to be clear, you have always downloaded digitally and now that discs are no longer going to be available you will continue to download digitally?
Incidentally how were you pirating on the PS5? - Is your post even relevant to the topic or are you using a company unrelated to what you play as a scapegoat to feel better about yourself?
To those who do not own any firearms or who swing hard left politically, anyone else with a gun or even an
interest in shooting them ( hunting / target / etc ) at all is labeled as a " gun nut "
Don't gaslight. There are countless people who separate gun owners and gun nuts. Most people don't have a problem with recreational shooters, hunters, or any other sports people. It's the people who think they need an arsenal to protect their land, or those who are afraid the government is coming and need to defend themselves who are labelled "gun nuts". There's also nutty gun culture separate from gun nuts, the idea that you need a gun for defense in a world where you're worried about getting shot because everyone has a gun. They can fall under gun nuts as well, lawful ones, but none the less ones who massively contribute to the problem in the USA that puts gun violence and deaths the highest in the western world.
I got pulled over by police 3 weeks ago. At no point was a gun mentioned. They didn't ask if I had one, they never approached the vehicle with their hands on theirs. Compared to that the entire USA has "nutty gun" culture.
Smarter people understand this and simply stay home out of the spotlight.
No one is questioning smart people. They are just few and far between.
Food is still grown by human farmers. A few farmers can make a whole lot of food, but those farmers have to work hard to do it. The same goes for everything else farmed or derived from livestock.
Farming is a good example. A couple of people can these days run a mega farm, with orders of magnitude more output than tending the fields in the days of yore. The question is, why are farmers working hard? The answer is the profit motives that push them to do so regardless of what high level output they provide.
and there are only enough jobs (of any kind) for only a tiny fraction of the population
Throughout all of human history this has been a concern and throughout all of human history this scenario has proven false / elusive. We don't run out of jobs. Jobs are simply a fundamentally limiting factor in economic output.
"Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown!" -- The Ghostbusters
