And what stops you from making a seperate license to play on the servers provided by the company that is based on good behaviour and/or monthly subscription fees?

This is what the Stop Killing Games movement is also about: Sure, we understand that eventually you wind down the online servers, no problem. But if I paid for a game, why should you have the right to disable it? With no other things I buy can you at any time later come to my house and take them back or disable them. Not with my microwave, not with my shower, not with my lights.

There are no large sources of waste, unless you count "money spend for things we don't agree with". That said, I think you underestimate how much waste results from people doing things that computers could do, but which nobody has spend the money to automate.

I feel like the Elon Musk trade is fairly straightforward.

People buy the stock because they trust Elon Musk, and his companies are good enough to continually increase profits or revenue (that is, he's good at avoiding things that scare away investors). Because of that, the stock will continue to go up until Elon dies or retires.

When Elon dies, that's the sign to sell.

If you are writing in C, it's basically essential to use your own C string library. It's easy to do, just encapsulate those things into something more sane.

This kind of thing should be encapsulated in a macro or function so you don't make mistakes.

Using the raw stdlib string library will cause security problems. These can be avoided 100% by using custom string functions.

Looked at LaunchD and decided, 'This would be better if it were done in a Microsoft way."

The only people who say that haven't actually looked at the source code, or are liars. I don't know which one you are.

At least you didn't say "Systemd is small", which it isn't.

Fork it into the trash.

It's possible the systemd team sees the field as a way to make their software more "sticky." If the data gets stored by systemd, then systemd because a little harder to remove.

That is a horrible development strategy for good software, but it does make the software more likely to remain. The Darwinistic incentive is there for enshittification.

Aren't drone ranges largely limited by weight instead of battery storage space?

Is a SuperPAC grassroots? No.

The author of Revelation was not a fan of the Roman economic project. It was built on cruelty, just like our corporate system is today.

Of course, if you got your understanding of the bible from a crappy evangelical church, you are not going to understand it. If you got your understanding of the bibble from a catholic church, they intentionally obfuscated it.

Not surprising. Tesla is its 5th generation (AI5) processor, currently manufactured by Samsung and TSMC. I suppose they imagine there are others that will want to use these for their own purposes. Musk is creating his own supply of chips for SpaceX at his TX Terafab. Having terrestrial customers to absorb some of the supply and provide revenue as that ramps up the obvious thing to do.

wrong.
what i clearly meant is that they don't take the kinds of personal risks that would get them killed in open conflict, at least not until there are many more Luigis hunting them.
they've mostly learned to be like the shadow bankers, the powers behind the thrones.
political & military power often requires money and a lot of it.
GoT's Iron Bank has historical examples

the people who most loudly tout how great capitalism is also rail against anything that helps the smallfolk as Truman warned in 1952
"Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called farm price supports.

Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people."
a lot of market regulation happened only after the fact, when the self made job creators triggered yet another financial crisis. and if they're not scrupulously watched they would do it all again.
in fact it may be already be happening - AGAIN