Neville Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler by letting him remilitarize the Rhineland, annex Austria and invade Czechoslovakia. Look at how well that worked out.

The tech and entertainment industries have slowly eroded any and all moral arguments against piracy.

Streaming and digital distribution have led to situations where we no longer own the media we buy. We could buy a licence to access an app, song, show or movie and then have our access revoked at any time for any reason, and maybe we’ll get a refund if we’re lucky…

Landmining terms of service with clauses banning class action lawsuits and imposing forced arbitration have become increasingly common and is further eroding our consumer rights so if a company does fuck us financially, we’re SOL.

Then we have companies like Nintendo that have litigated hard against emulators, ROM sites and third-party flash carts which have given access to old games that Nintendo otherwise have little interest in making available on modern hardware - in some cases bankrupting people like Gary Bowser for life with seven-figure judgements in the process.

We now have a substantial risk of more shows, games, songs, movies and other forms of media becoming lost because of this.

But the biggest kick in the teeth has come from the AI industry.

Hosting pirated streams of PPV events or sports matches locked behind expensive cable channels, or even selling modded Fire Sticks that enable piracy can earn you significant prison time and a massive fine. Yet training LLMs on copyrighted works without the rightsholders’ knowledge, consent or compensation is apparently perfectly fine and not landing people like Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg behind bars?

TERF UK is sadly quite accurate.

Bangor University recently deplatformed a Reform MP and banned them from speaking on campus over their party’s association with racism and transphobia.

Which would be all well and good if they applied their standards equally. Keir Starmer literally gave an Enoch Powell-like “island of strangers” speech when announcing tougher immigration policies, and openly supported a court ruling which basically denied that trans women were women. The Conservative Party have also been playing a similar game of Simon Says with Nigel Farage and lurching much further to the right. Why aren’t Labour and the Tories banned?

I also think that singling out and pissing off a party that is (unfortunately) very likely to win the next general election is a sure-fire way to have your university defunded.

Down in the workshop all the elves were making toys

For the good Gentile girls and the good Gentile boys

Sounds like the kind of power mod who spends his evenings sat in a hotel cuck chair because that’s the most intimacy they’ll ever have with a woman.

I only knew of him because South Park mocked him and his style of masterdebating by depicting Clyde and Cartman as parodies of him.

Don’t go to university, unless you really want to work in engineering or teaching.

You’ll be saddled with student debt and your job prospects will be worse than if you decided to start flipping burgers or stacking shelves at 18.

Middle out!

Nah, I can relate.

Worst experience I had was with a property management firm who made me go through three stages of interviews, kept me waiting for weeks for responses about next steps, sent me a bogus offer acceptance letter, then tried to lowball me by insisting the role I applied for was £5k lower than advertised.

And apparently this is a major property management firm that has BlackRock as one of their big clients.

Job market is shit right now for accountants.

Nah, this is yanderedev

This is YandereDev levels of bad.

Newsflash: Not every country practices free speech

I dunno, a lot of the rules they established sound reasonable, and they don’t really want to risk a raid from the German authorities.

It kinda came out of left field and pissed off all the people that actually liked the sitcom that CAD was becoming.

Also, Tim Buckley’s news post commenting on the comic made him sound like an asshole. Cyanide & Happiness actually spoofed the Loss comic but with the guy delivering a snippet of Buckley’s post

I think he only used C to build the installer. The rest was coded in x86 assembly.

Building anything in x86 assembly is a gargantuan effort, but then Chris Sawyer built a game on the same level of scale as RollerCoaster Tycoon…

Not good. Made redundant a few weeks ago, it feels like recruitment agencies are wasting my time.

Maybe a bit of a cold take, but my guess is he went back to Romania because Romanian or British prison would be preferable to a Salvadoran supermax.

Spez is a spineless cuck.

If Putin had any desire to conquer Switzerland, all I’ll say is good luck. They’re:

• Heavily fortified, with hundreds of bunkers dotting the countryside
• Highly mountainous, which would heavily slow down a ground invasion.
• One of the few states to still practice mandatory military service.
• Pretty lax with gun ownership, to the point where citizens have a statutory duty to bear arms in the event of an invasion.
• A substantial player in the banking sector with many oligarchs using their service. Any freeze they’d put on Russian assets would likely go above and beyond what NATO and the EU managed, just because of how synonymous their banks are with the wealthy. They would probably send the Russian economy into freefall long before they could even get anywhere near Zurich.
• Surrounded from all sides by NATO and EU member states, and would likely have plenty of time to prepare their own forces in the unlikely event that Russia mounts a full-scale invasion and takes over the rest of Europe.

Because Spez is Elon Musk’s little bitch.