I’m pretty sure I’ve heard about this a while ago and the math just doesn’t math.

I hate this “joke” so much … you know that in a few years people will believe this shit, right?

We aren’t talking about some small indie movie website here. Sony should have never signed a deal that would force them to take away their customers purchased movies if a contract ran out. If that’s not possible either don’t sign any deal at all or only offer rental. Simple, as long as you’re not greedy and make promises you can’t keep.

Now that they apparently have to claw back those purchased movies, the least they could do is to refund everyone their money. If you can rent movies, they could also only refund the difference between renting and buying.

If you buy a $3000 PC from your typical boutique PC builder they will probably do that for you. If not for free, then for a lot less than $2000 you’re overpaying.

But there is nothing you are missing out on? It’s not like this is a switch, or even a steam deck. It’s a small form factor PC with SteamOS preinstalled.

The only reason I could think of for buying from a scalper is if you are a journalist (or similar) and need one or multiple to review/test.

I feel like pointing at “influencers” and putting the blame on them isn’t really correct. They are probably more of a symptom.

Whose fault is it that some random blogger is being treated the same as people who studied something for decades?

E.g. the media owned by the rich or the governments bought “lobbied” by the rich.

A few crazy people will always exist, but currently the “inmates are running the asylum” and they actively promote this garbage. Just look at RFK.

WTF? I had no idea… I really wanted to see this, so here is a video.

They can’t force people to buy SUVs, but when it’s much more profitable for car companies from the USA to make SUVs, thanks to that EPA loophole, then they are going to do everything to make sure everyone “wants” SUVs.

nobody is forcing anyone to purchase these cars. they choose to do it.

Decades of propaganda advertisements telling people they need to buy an SUV, plus the (real or not) perceived danger of having a smaller car… that might not technically count as “manufactured consent”, but imho it’s not too far off.

FIFA, one of the most evil organisations in the world

Sorry, but no matter how bad and corrupt FIFA is, calling them that is ridiculous. Your average American health care/insurance company and their “deny, defend, depose” operation is probably worse.

Ehh, I feel like a lot of people in here are arguing just for the sake of it, and because the guy who said this is from a car company.

Yes, of course electric cars are better than cars burning fossil fuels. EVs being too expensive, too few buttons and too many touch screens has nothing to do with that. The same goes for the also obvious fact, that we should focus more on public transport because it is much more efficient in moving people around than cars.

He will sadly not face any consequences either way (unless hell is real). So hoping that MAGAts will tear themselves apart after his death is our only option.

Don’t worry, you’ll only be asked to sing your favorite Pepsi ad jingle. 20s if you can do it without mistakes and 90s otherwise.

Oh, and your audio+video recording will be uploaded to their servers for validation and they can do whatever they want with it.

You can tell how useful AI by how much billionaire are investing in text, audio and video slop generation.

Isn’t there now some social media app that only consists of generated ai slop videos?

You’d think their focus should be a little different…

Among all the things you can mock the USA for, this is probably pretty low on the list …

Besides, King Trump would love to throw addicts in camps. Only the poor ones, obviously.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but McAfee must have been at least somewhat skilled in the past, no? That doesn’t sound much like Musk.

On 23 June 2021, he was found dead due to an apparent suicide by hanging in his prison cell near Barcelona shortly after the Spanish National Court authorized his extradition to the U.S.[16][17][18]

I guess there is one way he could become the next McAfee…

There is a funny German song about this: Versengold - Im Bier sind Dinge drin

What I like about this song is that it also works as an argument against all this microchipping none sens, while being funny. If some world government really wanted to chip you, why not put it in beer, or the water supply, or food, etc. They do control all that stuff, you know.

Not that it makes much sense to put microchips in random people anyway, when almost everyone buys and carries a perfect surveillance suite with them everywhere. They even pay for the data and upgrade them to be faster once every few years. The inmates are financing the prison.

Oh, and of course, the same morons crying about microchips in vaccines are also uploading their stupid opinions to all kinds of websites on purpose.

It makes perfect sense for the shadow world government to put expensive microchips in vaccines, instead of just using the smartphones and smartwatches everyone paid for with their hard-earned money via their direct link to google, facebook and apple servers.

Sorry, I got a bit off-topic. Stupid conspiracy theories that make no sense at all are a big pet peeve of mine. Here are the translated lyrics for the song in bad formatting, if you’re interested:

There are things in beer (Lyrics) I’ve long suspected That drinking beer does something to me Because more often than not I do really stupid things when I’m slightly tipsy

But now I know it’s not me I can’t really help it Instead of responsibility, I have genius A conspiracy theory

There are things in beer, well, things like that That make me cheerful and slightly tipsy Yes, there are things in it and that makes sense The government arranged it that way

Yes, chemtrails are expensive and out If you want to control the people, you brew Just one sip of beer And Bill Gates has already chipped you

The internet has revealed it And I, a horny guy, have checked it out A sleeping sheep, anyone who doesn’t rant about it We’re all being vaccinated by swallowing

There are things in beer, well, things like that They make me feel good and slightly tipsy Yes, there are things in it and that makes sense The government arranged it that way

So much for the purity law My beer is my daily bread And that’s why I know for sure Because I’m super smart

There are things in beer, well, things like that They’re definitely to blame for me still being single Yes, there are things in it, and that makes sense

The state arranged it that way There are things in beer, well, things like that They do this and that and give you a double chin on the side

Take a closer look, palim palim palim We’re all being controlled

If only there was an entity that could make rules about who and what can be driven on public roads.

I know it sounds impossible, but what if this entity could have stepped in before companies tread public roads and other drivers as beta testers for their half finished commercial products? They could have forced companies to either make this stuff work, or keep it off the roads.

Real talk for a moment: The world, but especially the USA has been on fire over the last decade. Sometimes I wonder how different the introduction of certain technologies could have been if everyone wasn’t distracted by all the craziness and governments had actually done their job. I’m not just talking about self-driving or AI, as another example, but also crypto and social media in general. Would things be much different, if this stuff appeared during “boring times”?

Sorry, I’m just rambling here …

Outside of people joking around and calling it “hand egg”, Trump just got Fifa’s first peace prize, so I wonder why he would suddenly say something like this? Hmmm …

Just because it wouldn’t stick, doesn’t mean they can’t sue you and make your life more difficult. (Not saying you shouldn’t call out bad actors like that)