Wasn’t Haaretz already accused by the Israeli government of being un-patriotic and even anti-semitic? Here’s hoping the article is more gloves off than the title implies.

The “where” I was referring to was, yes, by jurisdiction, but also roads versus trails, and public vs private property.

Depends where you ride, iirc

I mean sure, but the things people are prone to stealing physically, when they wouldn’t otherwise but for price, tend to be those they must have just to live. That’s not the sort of consumption we can ethically reduce.

I think the rich are more prone to buying new items. Eventually the prices of used items will rise as a result of demand, but not right away. No one needs a new game console, and few could not meet their needs with a used PC or laptop.

Most in the US already have all of the above, but sure, this disproportionally “hurts” the poor.

The comment I responded to was regarding climate change and resource consumption, and piracy’s “impact” on them, so …

Nope. Climate change is a pollution issue. Reducing consumption can reduce pollution, but paying or not paying for a digital copy of something has effectively zero cost in the form of natural resources or pollution.

Everything I needed to know about school, I learned the first time I saw they would fire women over this stuff.

Californians are the reasons I left California. Just like Americans are the reason I want to leave this country more and more each day of my life, but still, nothing about that first issue has changed for the better since I left.

The PC parts pipeline is ever-so-slightly more diverse, although the article does say Laptop prices could go up by 46% …

Look forward to more machines being assembled in other countries before hitting US soil, same as is already done for appliances by way of Mexico. Lack of imagination and industry knowlege on the part of whoever wrote the article, or just the desire to fear-monger.

Frankly, prices rising is not something I care about. Taxing the rich has to start somewhere, even if its what the Dems should have been doing.

Silver Lining. Fuck Consoles. Nothing that powerful should have most of its capabilities locked behind DRM, Licensing, and Walled Gardens.

Indeed

Okay, but now we all need shirts saying “I’mma non-profit whoreganization” and/or “support your local non-profits”.

I thought about spewing some bull-shit about expecting money, versus expecting free meals, versus expecting sex or nudes or whatever, but lets be real, none of us gets an excuse for any of it.

If you’re not bent-out-of-shape, then why keep up this charade? Stop coddling the orange man-baby.

If it causes him to waste time and energy replying, even in a speech in the vaguest of terms about his “haters”, it’s good enough.

Failing another dragon, death by a thousand cuts can kill a dragon, and there’s little exuse for holding punches when the dragon repeatedly demonstrates that it absolutely has to die.

Riiight, let me just go throw a small dick joke at, say, Ellen Degeneres, or Oprah, or even Ru Paul(iirc, theirs, if they still have it, was rumored to be large) … None of them would care. They would probably laugh at the notion of me getting worked up about it.

Toxic masculinity is bad when targetted at non-men, or non-masc-conforming men. Saying throwing a small-dick joke at Donald-Fucking-Trump is equivalent to calling Ellen small-chested, Oprah fat, or Ru Paul masculine, is bat-shit apologism, and I’m done responding to you on this bullshit.

Should have been

Tell them that. They’re the only ones getting more bent-out-of-shape about it than you.

Good. Fuck cheap oil. Help renewables win!

I’m still afraid to google what Russians consider sauce. Worst case, I have something in common with Trump, and that I cannot abide at the moment.