AwesomeLowlander

Know your enemy corporate overlord, eh?

Isn’t that because the optimisation sucks

The “paid more to work less” part is not tenable

We could have the major publishers and devs paying better salaries. They can afford it.

This is the asshole who presided over a significant portion of the enshittification of both Xbox and Blizzard, so we know exactly what his opinion is worth

Argh.

Look, imagine you have an aquarium. You fill the bottom half up with the solid of your choice. Gravel, sand, clay, whatever. Then you fill up the rest of it with water. You’ve created a simple model of the ocean, including the groundwater you’re talking about

Now dig out a hole in the middle and toss the sand you dug out into the trash. Your water level will lower, because you’ve removed some mass that was occupying some volume and the water will fill that empty space. You’ve successfully lowered the ocean level. It doesn’t matter how much groundwater there is, it’s totally irrelevant to the question OP posted.

What. Do you not get the concept of volume? Forget your sites and papers and studies, you need to go back to grade school.

From your own link:

While approximately 97% of Earth’s water is in the oceans

🤦

That’s setting aside that physics being physics, it doesn’t matter how much water is underground since removing mass from underneath the ocean means the water in the ocean will fill the empty space created and the resulting water level will lower. How did groundwater even factor into this discussion? Sheesh.

That’s… A lot of added gas. Pre-space-loss, it would probably feel something like Jupiter’s atmosphere

Hate speech directly affects and impacts the parties targeted, regardless of whether anybody else is influenced by said speech.

Thank you for explaining my country’s specific traffic situation to me.

It can depend on your locale. I live in a country where outside of highways, posted speed limits are a joke. The cops would probably honk you if you were going the posted limit on a non highway road.

Nice! It’ll probably also be helpful to most readers if you edit it into the main post

Generally, don’t post the text, post an archive link. You can create such links by appending ‘archive.ph/’ to the front of the original url, then opening the link in your browser.

Once your govt has been captured by foreign interests, it doesn’t really matter what laws are on the books anyway, they’ll find a way to screw you over.

Within reason. Libel, incitement to violence, hate speech, etc, should be illegal for obvious reasons

This is because every single thing has to be tested and approved to death in a car.

This is tesla though, how much testing do they actually do before passing it to customers for free QA?

The issues could cascade beyond the design. The auto manufacturing industry operates on strict production schedules. Though it builds in time to validate and test whatever new features come in each new model, the sudden intro of a design change late in the process could throw off the delicate timetable.

FFS, it’s a bloody door handle, not full self driving tech. Author is full of BS.

it’s still an argument that relies on “everyone does it ergo it must be ok”, which wouldn’t stand on its own terms either.

Given that’s how the entire Internet works, it does stand on its own terms. The UK isn’t influential enough to force the entire Internet to follow suit. They can take it or leave it.

And as a website you don’t deal with any of that, you just implement an ad platform’s ad window and they serve whatever regional ads are relevant to your visitors. So yes, practically all websites with advertising would be operating in every country worldwide, by your logic.

At that point, you (well, not you per se) are basically suggesting to replace the telephone system with a Signal-esque system. Which would break a billion things in real life, for little to no gain.