All Ahsoka all the time.

“Amazon announces a cheap way to bank on an existing franchise”

It took two whole days to break a billion dollars! That’s like an eternity!

Hey, there’s multiple options. They could be a “stay at home and not bother” voter instead. They are the largest electoral demographic in the US after all.

Name recognition.

And cat boxes.

You mean like killing people who you feel are the problem? That’s pretty authoritarian. Or judging people by demographics they fall into? That’s pretty authoritarian. Taking the position that there is only one path to success, often violence? That’s pretty damn authoritarian.

All popular tacks people on Lemmy (or other parts of the fediverse) push for, often in direct opposition to .ml people.

Just because one has ideological differences with a group of people doesn’t mean one is nothing like them. Being righteous does not make one right, just closed off.

Sounds like you’re preparing for a world where peace and prosperity can’t be achieved, then.

Ah ha ha ha ha! On the contrary, WE WILL PLOT IT ALL THE TIME. (Just not in the way .ml does it)

You mean for the reasons .ml does it?

He wants to be the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance, not the President of the Federation.

And you didn’t share it?! Rude!

Isn’t that just brain trauma?

Its certainly simpler, though hardly a solution. There’s always more billionaires unless you change the system that created them.

I wonder if he ever made a game about driving Lady Di off a road with papparazzi…

Neither was King Kong in 1980.

What about being named after a building?

At no point did I mention volume, I implied education. I actually find just yelling louder to be worse than censorship, as all it does is increase the level of tension and push people towards extremes. Which helps no one.

I also didn’t mean to imply that we shouldn’t use band-aids at all, just that it’s a simple treatment, not a cure. Blocking certain speech and rhetoric can help to a degree… but not if it’s the only thing you do.

The problem with current strategies is that no one wants to go beyond that first step. Whether it’s censorship, or shouting.

Honestly, with the current state of affairs, discrete hardware might not exist at all. Whether it’s console or PC.

We can make all the assumptions we like about the current trend, but just because we don’t like something doesn’t mean that an alternative we’d prefer would replace it once it fails.

I don’t disagree that Windows as we know it will cease to exist in the near future… but that doesn’t mean things that are much worse aren’t going to replace it instead of a linux utopia.

Consoles don’t use memory, right?

Censorship is, at best, a band-aid. And they can always find ways around it. The best solution isn’t to block them from view temporarily, but to teach people to evaluate what they say with empathy and critical thinking.

That is, of course, difficult to accomplish. But then again, there’s no easy solutions, only easy excuses.