I don't think they care about that, it's just about profit. They're making rich people richer (or they're out of a job) they're not making art.

Confirmation that Steam made a good call, right there.

I'm really going to miss Firefox

When criticism is blasphemy you know you're dealing with a reasonable and balanced individual.

If they've got a billion dollars they also own their own track and can pay other drivers to lose races against them.

Qobuz have a download store. I've been using them for years and they've always been excellent.

The same lobbyists that bought every other government have already bought this one. It looked good for a while though.

Endgame capitalism is squeezing harder since the 2008 crash and then Covid. They predicted polarising of politics and ideologies. We're seeing tribalism as a reaction to fewer resources and harsher conditions, all of which are down to greed and oligarchy. They've succeeded in getting us to fight amongst ourselves instead of them.

"but we're leaving the millionaires alone"

Iran probably bought them from Putin with some shiny new drones.

The question can also be applied to why people believe in God / follow a religion. The notion of monarchy has (in the UK at least) been tied into pseudo religious notions of 'chosen by god' or similar, so it ties into that belief system for better or worse. (Historically the tie-in was to co-opt the obedience baked into faith, but that's probably lost on modern monarchists and believers.)

People everywhere develop unhealthy relationships with those that are oblivious to them, or outright parasitic and damaging. This is another of those that's been wrapped up in tradition and ceremony under the guise of 'normality' and the status quo. 'Ignorance is bliss' may apply.

I think being a woman of colour is enough to trigger a big ol chunk of the USA into hating her.

Bullshit. The EU is far better off without us. They know it and we know it.

Unreasonable people can't be reasoned with. There is no rational conversation with people who's decision making is based upon racism/jingoism/national exceptionalism. The UK is still a monarchy, so I'm not convinced they can be taken any more seriously than a religious state anyway.

Depending upon the age of the bios, it may not recognise USB sticks over a certain size. If you can burn your Linux ISO to a CD-R you might have more luck.

They had a lot of lead pipes in rome, so maybe.

Give it another 24 hours, they'll cook up a new one.

Amen

Let them fail, or figure it out themselves. This is natural selection at work.

You're not entirely wrong in that philosophy. At best we can hope for allies some of the time, but typically that arrangement will last only when mutually beneficial. We're not owed anything, and that includes loyalty, allegiance, love etc.

I think the majority of people we experience in a lifetime will be parasitic, and will take infinitely more than they have the capacity to give. Even the "good ones".

I think it's fine to feel what you're feeling, you have your eyes wide open and are seeing relationships for what they are, without idealism. How to reconcile that understanding with a happy, fulfilling life is another thing entirely.