Nah. Let's just let it collapse, do nothing, and the rest of the world can pass us up.

Get a job.

Orphan-Crushing Machine is a metaphor for "heartwarming" news stories about someone remedying the immediate effects of a sociopolitical issue that ignore the root cause of said issue. The catchphrase and metaphor satirize these stories by comparing them to a story of a person raising money to keep 200 orphans from being crushed where nobody questions why an orphan-crushing machine exists in the first place.

The real problem is REGULATIONS KILLING BUSINESS! We need to DEREGULATE MICROPLASTICS!

1. This is basically just "nerd harder."

2. Every single EDR update having to pass through MS, beyond being unworkable, is going to run afoul of the EU's demands.

3. Which OSes recover gracefully from third-party ring 0 drivers being corrupted? Are you not at all concerned about the vulnerabilities that would open with such?

Yeah, for now. But *future* mice could be loaded with gizmos. Imagine a heart-rate monitor built in to take readings from your hand and update your health insurance company in real time as you're cranking it to BNWO vids. Your failure is in imagination.

How would they isolate sufficiently without falling afoul of the EU?

The US Senate is the first thing that comes to mind.

This is a much better use of antitrust regulations than removing Teams from Office.

SCOTUS recently legalized bribery so long as the payment is made after the fact. They don't need to insider trade anymore.

I like how you quoted me in full, but then still pretended not to see all the text when writing your response.

"Literally the only way to not be a slave is to spend more time and effort working for no additional gain." Dumbass.

Yes. "Happy slaves" spending less time jumping through hoops. Fucking galaxybrain, bro.

Yeah. I remember that. I was there for it. This is not that.

I guess expecting you to read the whole summary is too much? This is just the EU deciding that the communication part of worker productivity doesn't count as Productivity, so those of us actually taking care of our users now get extra steps to go through.