Thanks for the context but

I feel like price for the one time purchase is set deliberately high because they want people to actually pay for the subscription instead. If their goal really was to make their products more accessible, just allow people to pay in installments and take some recurring interest fees for the financing.

And, in any case, the product should work no matter whether I'm late with the monthly fee or not. That's just bullshit.

These are all very normal things. The joke is that console gamers are normal people, whereas pc gamers are a bunch of hardcore nerds who never wash themselves, never leave home, don't have a job and don't know how to interact with women

1. modern websites are a pain to navigate with popups, paywall, ads, heavy tracking that slows down navigation, autoplaying video ads etc

2. modern journalism = let's just report whatever the person or company says without fact checking, contextualizing or taking a stance. I believe this is done because it takes less effort and because it makes sure that the news org doesn't anger any of the persons/organizations it has tides with (for ads or direct funding)

The comments solve both problems, as lemmy is ad- and tracking-free and the people in the comments are mostly real people usually without any vested interests in the things they're discussing.

So OBVIOUSLY I only read the comments. I'll get the content of the article indirectly as it's being discussed.

"Niche"

Very interesting. Too bad it gives really bad results.

Searching for "pokemon" doesn't show in the first page of results

• the official website

• the wikipedia page

Instead it shows a bunch of random websites that mention the term including this wepage straight out of the year 2000: http://dvdmg.com/pokemon.shtml

As a second search I tried searching for "best fallout for mods" and its first result was some unrelated meta topic (discussing ai generated content) which happened to use the expression "is this the fallout of [action/event]?".

Im not religious, not in the sense that i follow any particular religion.

But it seems to me, analyzing the history of humanity across multiple cultures, that we humans have fundamentally a "spiritual need", a need to believe into something that is bigger than us, that lies on a superior level of existence.

Call it buddhism, christianity or whatever, but it seems like we need to believe in something like that.

To an extent, i believe it has to do with us being moral animals and having a natural need for justice. We want to believe that justice exists in this world and a religion and its rules is a way to a just world. Because bad people go to hell, or are victims of karma.

So to answer your question. I think we want the world to be fair, because we are moral animals. And believing in religion is a way to believe in a fair world.

The problem with religions is twofold.

One, that across human history the above core element of all religions has been conflated with other foreign elements that have nothing to do with it, like descriptions about the origin of the universe and humans (which is a question of science, not of religion) and rules about how to live your life which have nothing moral about them (and are probably the temporary result of the existing culture within a society). Like forbidding homosexuality, or the idea that women serve a very limited function in society which is limited to taking care of the home and the children.

Usually people have come to accept this because religion is sold as a "complete package" (particularly enforced with rules that you make a bad religious person if you don't accept it all and with the people close being incentivized to look down on you for not strictly adhering to the religious teachings). That is also why people believe in religion in general (and not just in its moral teachings which actually make sense) in 2024.

The second problem with religion (and here i'm going on a tangent that doesn't have much to do with the question at hand) is that it usually makes a validity claim for eternity, i.e. religion asserts that its rules and knowledge are valid forever (literally set in stone). This has done more harm than good to our improving of our set of guiding moral principles.

Sorry if this comment is a bit of a mess.

Sometimes they're cheaper than launch price? Or you may get exclusive cosmetics? Idk

(Not saying it's worth it)

Paid startpage, basically?

https://www.startpage.com/en/about-us

Then all of youtube is niche except maybe mrbeast

Sony flagship phones (xperia 5 and xperia 1 lineup) still have a microsd slot and a headphone jack

Not in most of Europe, because we have worker protection laws in place that disincentivize this type of behaviour (sometimes so much so, that critics say it makes the job market too "rigid").

Probably the fairphone

Wait this isn't standard practice in the rest of the world???¿???

Monetary policies and cheap loans from the government that stimulated the economy to counter the effects of the recurrent lockdowns. The opposite of what's happening now (high interest rates to counter inflation).

I agree with the Israel part.

https://web.archive.org/...

I need backlit keys for the function keys and the other non-letter keys

Also accents (not in english obviously)

c/lossofalovedone

Tbf

1. we don't know if she's got feedback before getting fired or not

2. he does address that:

No employee should ever actually be surprised they weren’t performing. We don’t always get it right.