I didn’t see a single top level comment be the devil’s advocate so I will give it a try.

Humanity moves forward. Standards are always shifting. New technologies and needs are created everyday and people want to raise their standard of living to accommodate for new things. Also, global population has been growing since we stabilized food production in the 1800’s.

If companies don’t grow at least with population, that means tomorrow we will have less than today. If companies don’t also grow with raising standards of living, that means someone stays poor. If companies don’t also grow to match the complexities of producing new technology, that means we stopped in time technologically.

In a competitive system such as capitalism, you don’t wait for more competitors to show up and fill this new ever-growing demand; you take that demand for yourself. So everyone seeks growth.

When a society does not grow (i.e. japan) for too long, capitalism doesn’t break down immediately, but you clearly see it stagnates. Japan’s population is not stable and their economy is facing major problems.

Whether growth is organic or fabricated is a related, but different, topic

The end goal was always to deprive us of alternatives

If I was doing something wrong and could say “no u” to whoever complained, I would too

Northen portugal is H

First buying russian oil, now israeli investments… Is the goal to get associated with murderers?

A tariff is not a tax on exit, it is on entry. US decides to charge tax on the coffee

Foreign products already pay huge taxes (60%+). As a final consumer you can’t find anything below 190% of original price. Many people travel to US just to buy stuff because it is already so heavily taxed. The price difference for a single iphone already pays for 2 plane tickets (which can be cheaper than travelling nationally depending on destination, given the demand)

Brazil has a tariff for decades and now cries wolf

Isn’t menopause the clock?

If you don’t have anybody, it will be hard to be a neet. They are usually maintained by someone else (mostly parents)

Man you have way more faith in adults than I do

The initiative start with the game “the crew”, where ubisoft shut down the servers and you can’t even play singleplayer. The argument is that your product can be removed without your consent. The counter-argument is that it is not a product, it is a license.

The best possible outcome is that developers be required to keep games playable if they don’t want to maintain it anymore,by either updating the game to work offline or providing lan/private server capabilities.

It might just end up being a warning when buying the game like “this is a license, not a product: access may be revoked at any time”

If it works with any git platform, you have several alternatives + self hosting.

The chokepoint is the index, but if the mod repo is up and you have the url by some other way, it should work

Because none of the flight crew or the company wants a lawsuit if they can avoid it. Land asap and give the guy over to authorities

You loved one dies, you feel happy. You are in logical despair but can’t feel it.

I’ll pass

Yeah, the tariffs are way less important than this. I’m planning a trip and I’ll be taking a longer, more expensive route just to not land in the US. For a connection (which you require a full visa for)

You have a lot of faith in people’s logic level. Most people read at 6th grade level. There is a person saying “I think this”, do you really think everyone in there thought “I’m completely unaware of what the deceased thought”

They just don’t want to support it to save dev time/money

the first Sunday after the full Moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox.

Definition of arbitrary lol

I knew half of the answers would be “just use linux”

Spotube uses your spotify library, but gets the audio from youtube