That would mean exclusives everywhere. Everyone would try to force some game pass on us, until our only choice to get an OK selection would be having 4 subscriptions. Or piracy.

With Steam, I get a well integrated platform for buying, updating and launching everything with the correct compatibility layer.

That’s more convenient than piracy, so I use it.

They all are clutching their pearls because Mamdani would demonstrate that a more leftist approach could be popular. This feels threatening to the Republicans because a neoliberal milquetoast Democratic party isn’t dangerous to them, and this would be.

Haha got it!

What are you talking about?

I think it’s illegal in the EU

Terminology is confusing. Lowercase-c conservatives want to keep the status quo as it is. But fact is that e.g. in the USA, legal access to abortion has been the status quo for 50 years.

So nobody can say that the status quo has been anything but that in the US. So uppercase-C “Conservative” just means “reactionary” now, because that’s what it is to roll back a 50 year old right.

Since you mentioned LocalSend: https://syncthing.net/. It’s a way to sync files between devices. And since I bring my phone wherever I go, that means it works seamlessly for me.

All you said also applies to Linux!

I’m not in the US.

Yes, and I feel pretty privileged that I can make a living with stuff like that instead of making money for some heartless corporation that doesn’t ultimately care about anything except for money.

I do that, so I can say “yes” with conviction.

You guessed wrong, this is common.

Every village had a village idiot, now they network.

Wrong, the science community is slowly switching to bluesky

They follow robots.txt

There are different kinds of AI scraper defenses.

This one is an active strategy. No shit people know that this costs them resources. The point is that they want to punish the owners of bad-behaved scrapers.

There is also another kind which just blocks anything that tries to follow an invisible link that goes to a resource forbidden by robots.txt

No, that’s the reactionary propaganda doing that.

Everybody living in this world should be aware that words have context and don’t always literally mean what their parts mean. And even then “patriarchy” is one of the more literal ones: it comes from “pater”/father in the same vein as “paternalistic”, with the same connotation of overbearing-yet-out-of-touch.

So just from word meaning that clearly doesn’t mean all men, and obviously it also doesn’t refer to literal fathers either.

“patriarchy” in this context means something other than you think, I.e. it means a system that upholds gender roles that benefit a (majority male) ruler class, e.g. by encouraging worker class men to go to war for their benefit, worker class women to be caretakers, and so on.

The counterpart to this definition of “patriarchy” is a society with no stratified gender roles, not “matriarchy”.

Im sorry that happened, but never again what?

Like, “never again open up about a huge important part of my life to”

a) anyone, or b) someone you don’t know too long

Because only b) is healthy. I don’t think trying to mask your depression can work in a serious relationship.

That’s not what that word means. “patriarchs” aren’t men in general, that’s why it’s possible (and in fast true) that the patriarchy harms people of all genders.

As this post demonstrate, men don’t benefit from it, e.g. it makes us live shorter, it encourages suppressing our emotion, it encourages our aggression. Because some (mostly) men in power benefit if we don’t unionize, let ourselves be pressed into shit jobs or the military, and so on.

Read the other messages here and you might understand.