Seems to me like it would be more sustainable if it was super cheap for a large common library so a large userbase would maintain a continuous subscription, supporting a large continuous revenue, rather than signing-up and quitting intermittently.

Excuse me, but how would a tiny percentage of people profit off of this?! What is even the point if there are no shareholders to demand record profits year after year? /s

“Needs” lol

A healthy dose of western/capitalist propaganda since birth and until death helps a lot. So many people under the illusion that this is the natural progression of civilization, or the best.

smug tech superiority

I can’t tell if this is satire or not… Are you seriously implying that going to any search engine (aka the url bar to most folks) and typing in 2-3 key words regarding what you want to know about is for “tech-inclined” folks? Please tell me you forgot the /s

Flexing that sci-fi knowledge real hard, my dude.

The AI that you’re describing probably won’t even be possible (if it even is possible. We don’t even fully understand human intelligence/brains yet) until quantum computing is ubiquitous so your whole argument is illogical.

For my own silly sci-fi take, I believe our brains are probably closer to quantum computing than traditional computing.

I’m not sure what led you to believe that I think I’m a victim of anything other than western propaganda, something I have in common with 99.9% of Americans.

99% of what I see regarding this topic is either straight up war propaganda or people who are unabashedly unafraid to let others know that they are totally ignorant of post WW2 geo politics.

Anything other than “DAE just love Ukraine and that charismatic Zelensky! 😍😍” gets down voted to oblivion. Its classic Red Scare 1980’s bullshit lol. Even now I’m sure most who read this are scrambling for the down vote button because they think I’m some sort of Russian shill/supporter simply based off the fact that I’m not fellating the West’s efforts.

Hey there!

Looks like you had a moderate, down to earth take on the Russia-Ukraine war.

That’s a down vote.

But seriously thanks for not attending to the feedback loop of propaganda and childish dick stroking.

Not likely but could be that the bank is compromised. Not that it makes much difference, but is it a major bank? Do you have cards from other banks that don’t get stolen regularly? Do you use a specific local atm regularly? Always tug on the card scanners at ATMs and gas pumps to ensure a skimmer isn’t being used. If there is a skimmer you will likely be able to pull it off or it will wiggle in a strange way, letting you know it’s not “stock”

Don’t save your cards in browsers anywhere.

This is the generation of adults who, when younger, were likely candidates to have been in the pic of Steam where everyone was “boycotting” mw2 but also like 80% of them were playing it anyway. They just grew up and got their own netflix accounts lol

The gaming industry has seen this sentiment of “I’m going to get you with my wallet, billion dollar corporation!” for decades now and it falls flat every. single. time. No commentary on whether that’s good or bad, just an observation I’m sure most of us have made who have been around long enough.

Were you unable to communicate with them before messenger? :( must have been hard times.

(by design)

Bingo.

My generation has talked it to death. It’s pretty agreed upon that we’re being fucked and have very little power to stop it. Eventually you don’t have time to rehash all the heinous shit that happens because you realize there’s a constant deluge of it. Has nothing to do with “supporting the other side” lol. If reality has got you feeling insane, well, you’re on the right track.

Nobody ignores the fact that government is doing something illegal when the conversation about their rampant spying happens. You may just be late to the party. We all know it’s illegal, unethical, and immoral. It basically comes down to this:

What are you going to do about it?

We’re living in objectively dystopian times. Our government does illegal shit literally all the time and gets away with it.