It really depends on the climate you’re used to living in, the winters here are in the -20c range and yesterday it was 41c. I’m basically happy as long as it doesn’t get within 10c of the extremes.

Axel Springer 🤝 Islamophobia

Name a more iconic duo. Fuck Axel Springer.

Remember that this does not include the source engine which is still closed source, good for modding but you won’t be able to do crazy ports or anything anytime soon.

Look at the companies with the highest market cap in the US and just start counting how many make money from selling personal data. The US will never implement wide sweeping privacy laws. To the detriment of everyone.

Waiting for half of Lemmy to blame me, a Harris voter (unfortunately), who lives in a red state, for not telling enough people that “her genocide will be better”. The democratic party has swung and missed for their voting base for at least the last 4 election cycles, maybe they start blaming themselves for a change.

I would argue regulation should come with (and typically be proportional to) scale. Google as an organization operates at an enormous scale. The scale of the amount links replaced with IA links will be large. The scale in amount in operational costs transferred to another organization is obviously worth it to Google. The sheer scale of everything and everyone involved should require Google to pay Internet Archive. In a decent world that is…