The problem isn't that there is not a way to deal with this, the problem is America, specifically the overriding belief that "government bad, company good" despite all evidence to the contrary.

They fail to understand why the EU regulating tech giants is so important and why Europeans agree with it... and that it's pretty much the only thing protecting them and still they'll rally against any attempt to reign in the unchecked power of large corporations.

We're talking about politicians here, they don't want to understand what they're doing, they just want to make it look like they're doing something.

The problems are not being caused by the existance of quarterly reports, rather with what certain people demand of them. Ever increasing growth and profit at the expense of everything else.

Getting rid of the reporting won't make change this one iota... It just makes it easier to hide the poor state of the economy and potential wrong doings of rich people.

I thought DLSS helped on Cyberpunk 2077 but didn't do a damned thing for STALKER2.

However I came to the conclusion years ago that graphics don't matter.

The most damning evidence came when I played Mass Effect Andromeda, the Mass Effect trilogy is beloved for many reasons and it's not necessarily the graphics (which were bad and highly consolidated even for 2007) however it had a story, an atmosphere, likeable characters and above all else, good gameplay. So good the gameplay still largely stands up today without mods. Mass Effect Andromeda had eye meltingly good graphics but everything else about the game sucked. The weapons were underpowered, enemies were bullet sponges, too much pointless running about/collecting... however that could be fixed with mods and it revealed that underneath all that were bland, unlikeable characters, a cliched and unimaginative story that dragged on for way too long, boring sidequests and far too many unmarked scavenger hunts. The graphics were phenomenal for 2020 but the gameplay would have been horrible for the late 90s and the story and characters were so design by committee that the game as well have been called Bland McBlandface in the I Don't Want Upset White Middle-Class Manchildren.

Hence I've come to the conclusion that graphics don't matter.

Now I'm a PC gamer so this kind of AI slop is not for us, it's for the console gamers. Consoles have been more expensive than gaming PCs for years now, the difference being that you paid for the hardware up front with a PC and then the savings started in earnest. A console sold you hardware at below cost but then charged you for everything as much as they could. With new consoles approaching the price of an entry level gaming laptop (the new Playstation is £700, you can get an ACER laptop with a RTX5050 for £650). It's just a new way to lock something else away behind a paywall and get console peasants to pay for something PC gamers take for granted, consoles have always lagged behind PCs on graphics (everything really) but now they're not just going to lag, they're going to pay for it.

A casino is an entertainment venue where there is often a lot more to do than gambling. A better analogy is that this is a dodgy bookmaker in a piss stained alley but with even less legal protection for the punters when things go wrong.

Blame Uber.

They decided that they weren't going to be called an illegal taxi company (or employer) and claimed they were a "ride sharing" company. As no lawmakers have bothered rumbling this obvious lie, other businesses have realised they can get away with it. You're not running an illegal brothel, it's "body sharing", don't call it a speakeasy, it's "drink sharing" so you're clearly not running an illegal betting ring... it's a "prediction market".

And those who demanded that Uber get a free pass because they wanted cheap taxis regardless of the cost are to blame... and this is just part of the cost.

BTW, this is not unprecedented, legitimate bookmakers have been taking bets on almost anything for decades now, it's never really been a problem as they were complying with laws. This is just an effort to skirt laws and regulations designed to stop and weed out dodgy operators.

Shock horror, racism no longer a valid excuse.

I hate to break it to you, but scams didn't start with foreigners, locals were doing it long before anyone with a funny accent and broken English came onto the scene. We're going to have to go back to the tried and tested methods of being smart enough not to fall for obvious scams and for those who aren't... letting them suffer the consequences of their own stupidity.

Those of us who grew up poor in the 80s and 90s know full well that there are dozens of people around every corner who'll happily deprive you of your meagre possessions and income, some through violence, others through words. People who grew up safely ensconced in middle class neighbourhoods never experienced this, thus never learned if you don't want to die poor, you learn to spot and handle the scammers and swindlers (and you had to learn to handle them because there was no avoiding them). This is the only reason the far right has had any kind of success, modern society has become so safe that people no longer have a standard bullshit filter which enables them to spot and reject obvious bullshit.

Right now, the stupid are being protected from the consequences of their own actions. As long as this continues, scams and grifters will continue to enjoy unprecedented success.

This may come as some surprise to Americans but in most countries it's illegal to advertise something that isn't true, doubly so if you know it's not true.

And what may be even more surprising is that you usually don't need to start a class action to get your refund (besides, a class action usually results in you getting about $3.50 back because the lawyers hoovered up most of the settlement, especially after the appeal).

This is just part of those evil "consumer rights" that Americans seem so dead against.

Why, has he run short on US taxpayer money to siphon off?

There's an old (native) American proverb, a man who chases two grifts loses them both.

And moves like this are damning evidence that they know it (the companies doing the polluting and the Republicans supporting them).

Shades of cigarette companies trying for years to use the courts to deny that smoking causes cancer.

They know the damage they're doing, they know that someone will have to pay the piper so they're getting in early to make sure it's not them.

I think the end game is not to isolate Europe from America, rather to ring fence American companies in Europe.

It's a particularly virulent delusion amongst many Americans that Europe is anti-business, nothing could be further from the truth as even the most socialist of European nations are very, very much free market capitalists... However we're stopping short of crony capitalism where business get to run the government and rightly so as the US is showing us how bad that's going.

Now Europe is happy for American companies to operate in Europe but they're expected to follow European laws and pay taxes in European countries. The major concern is that the US when it gets desperate will try to force those companies to put pressure on European governments. What will actually happen at this point is the ring fencing I mentioned earlier, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, et al. are not going to pull out of one of the largest markets in the world, rather what will happen is that the European operations will be spun off from direct control of the American organisations, reducing the threat and limiting their ability to cause harm. American companies will do this as the alternative is to let European companies get the advantage. One of the huge drivers for this will be when American companies start getting locked out from European government contracts, US defence contractors are already feeling this pain and they're not explicitly locked out yet.

In many ways, Europe is already not waiting to see what American voters are doing and are preparing for a more European centric future. Trump bears most of the responsibility for this. If the US is going to sort itself out and rejoin the international community, the US will do it as equals rather than the leader. A phenomenal irony is that the one who ran under the tag line "Make America Great Again" has been the one who has almost eliminated the power it has gained since the 1930s. Right now Europe and Asian allies are all telling the Orange In Chief to go do one with his war, when I was a lad in the 90s this would have been unthinkable (then again, so would a war to keep people distracted from the president being a nonce or the president being a nonce in the first place).

It really started before Bush when organisations like Fox News became accepted as "news". Something that lies that brazenly taken by millions as fact for so long that they no longer recognise the difference between fact and fallacy. It's gotten so bad that many Americans are turning their back on Fox because it's not extreme enough any more. There have been several attempts to start similar organisations in other western nations, Sky News Australia as well as several in the UK (GBNews, TalkTV) but find themselves continually frustrated by laws designed to prevent the level of dishonesty and propaganda they want as well as the fact that both Australia and the UK have a public broadcaster that is highly respected, independent from government or corporate control and no profit motive. There's a reason every time a conservative government gets elected Murdoch et al. try to get them to destroy the BBC/ABC.

Pretty much this.

The people that didn't work in the office found working from home a harrowing experience as it highlighted to others how little they did. You can't wander round a virtual office wasting the time of others to look busy, you cant organise meetings to discuss the shade of grey on the office walls, you can't steal credit for the work of others as they were nowhere near you for you to overhear what they did and nor can you pilfer their ideas.

These people were desperate not just to get back to an office... but to get everyone back there so they could continue to hide amongst the productive.

This.

The UK (and most countries) have a right to privacy inside a court as confidential or damaging information may be discussed inside a court that may have no bearing on the outcome of case itself or even if it does, may be damaging or harmful in ways completely unrelated to the case if made public. Even with something as (relatively) trivial as commercial in confidence you should have a right to privacy in court. This is for civil law, the right to privacy becomes even more important with family law or criminal law.

On that ground alone, the book should be thrown at the guy.

Secondly, the point of testimony is to get the persons own words, not the words they were told by legal council. Cross examination is meant to trip up people trying to stay on a script rather than the events that actually happened, Having people give them "advice" on what to say in real time is a deliberate attempt to deceive the court.

This may be a boon in disguise.

My Facebook regularly gets inundated with "follow me" posts that are nothing but clickbait scam, so much so that I only visit once a month these days. If the cost of running this clickbait becomes too great, we'll see less of it. I may actually go back to using Facebook.