I’d say it’s certainly possible for the economics and business strategy to shift in a manner where consumers get a much worse deal like this indefinitely. But it’s really haad to say if it’s actually going to play out that way or we experience a return to the previous equilibrium

there’s a utility named rename that will rename based on regular expressions. I think all the things you listed can be done by making a suitable regexp for each case

As far as I can tell the AI thing is an excuse; the jobs are really being cut because we’re reaping a harvest of policy so bad it’s indistinguishable from sabotage, and the AI thing is being used to ease the fall without spooking investors straight into a stock market crash

Wow, the precision with which this struck me is concerning. I’m really, incredibly autistic at all times aren’t I?

if you’re so generous Google why have you moved to stand between me and my hardware?

oh I’m sorry. it’s checks watch samsara o’ clock

It is right at all times, for we ever only live in the now

If a character has 121hp or more they’re able to jump from a space station onto earth with like a super hero landing??

Their casting choice for sandman was really disappointing to me. His appearance is so distinctive and strangely dignified in the book but they cast some conventionally attractive guy with for the lack of a better term little prick vibes

poor T aminals 😢

wow this is really good writing, answering such a complex question so thoroughly

The front page I’m getting is certainly kind of smelly

We as a society should be rethinking the term “security”, if it’s come to mean submitting to being jerked around however best suits some private company’s interests instead of our own. If there’s a central platform for its security benefit it should be democratically controlled instead of controlled by what are effectively feudal lords, or perhaps even an occupying force

it’s still super gay, and by far the highest density of trans people I’ve ever lived among