Thanks for highlighting this. Blocked em. I know these horrible things happen, but if they’re happening on the other side of the world and there is literally nothing i can do to help all they do is spread sadness and despair, and at worst provoke racism (as all the stories being shared are the same country, yet these incidents happen worldwide).

I know the writer and editor had a lot of options to go through when choosing a lead photo for this story, but I think they must’ve simultaneously said “that’s the one” when they got to this pic.

Would it shock you to know that ALL of these are in the Steam terms of service also?

The only really sus one to me is the forced arbitration clause, and Steam also had that til they were pressured to remove it by multiple legal cases, including a class action brought to them by Steam users just last September. It is only sus because it’s outdated - companies are generally removing them now rather than adding them. https://www.legal.io/articles/5540864/Valve-Removes-Mandatory-Arbitration-from-Steam-Subscriber-Agreement

RE: remaining top 5 bullet points, 3 of the remaining 4 bullet points are uncontroversial bullet points about anticheat. The fourth is banning modding, which is also just a heavy handed anticheat attempt, and not uncommon for online games to add to their ToS to allow banning at their discretion. Either way its clumsy at the least as some mods can be harmless eg HUD mods for colourblind people and deserves some negativity - but not to this level, given everything else is just so boilerplate.

Collected data types: these are all for if you buy stuff with a credit card / paypal / etc off 2k/parent company Take 2. Remember, they sell games with in-game purchases. They also have an app which has location permissions option which is what the precise location is about.

So yes - again, as OP said, this is nothing controversial if you have paid attention to ToS meaning and content over the past 20 years.

Aside from the forced arbitration crap - which Steam, Microsoft, Amazon, Lyft, Uber, Google, AT&T - and hundreds of other major companies all snuck into their ToS over the years, and many have now been legally pressured to remove by consumer rights group. That is stupid because it shows their legal team is behind the times, companies are mostly removing their forced arbitration clauses nowadays because it has been the cause of many lost class actions.

Lol that this has a downvote already.

“Don’t be mean about my AI gf! She’s real to me!”

So… You know that leaving the porch lights on 24/7 is part of the light pollution problem that kills insects, right?

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Many, many countries have ‘historical claims’ that mean nothing in current day geopolitics.

Claiming that ‘Taiwan is not a country’ is enough for me to know that this will not be a fruitful discussion.

Literally the first line of the ‘Taiwan’ Wikipedia article:

“Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.”

Expecting people to wade through 8000 word articles in the hope of finding mention of your claim is why you’re being downvoted.

Imagine someone making the claim, ‘Jesus hated gay people, it’s obvious’ and then when probed for a source, responding, ‘this is common knowledge available anywhere:
https://thekingsbible.com/’

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More gross than China enabling North Korea to send troops to help Russia attack Ukraine?

Not even close IMO.

That doesn’t change that Democrats might respond to his comments?

I dunno, Bernie has said that and I haven’t heard any Democrats outraged at his comments. But I get what you’re trying to say.

It’s metaphoric. Macron is saying “if you don’t stay out of our geopolitical backyard, we will become more closely involved in yours”.

China is increasingly invested politically and financially throughout SEA (Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and more).

Pros of fibre:

• cheaper: much cheaper than copper or satellites.
• faster: latency is faster than copper and wireless (to satellite).
• very high bandwidth: theoretically unlimited. In practice a commercial fibre optic multicore run for domestic use at street/town level will be pushing ~800Gb/a, and this number generally doubles every few years as tech advances. The new spec being finalised is 1.6Pb/s.
• high stability: does not give a crap if it’s cloudy, foggy, or rainy, or if the trees have wet leaves, or if it’s just a very humid day, unlike all forms of outdoor wireless comms. Does not care about lightning strikes, as copper does.
• long life: 25 to 30 years life quoted for most industrial in-ground fibre, but real life span is expected to be much longer based on health checks on deployed cable in countries with large fibre rollouts. Upgradable without replacing the medium throughout that lifecycle.
• lowest power usage: fibre optic uses far less power and energy than 4G 5G and satellite infrastructure.

Cons of nationwide fibre:

• billionaires who launched thousands of satellites make less money.
• monopoly Internet Service Providers won’t be able to fleece their cable internet customers some of the highest charges for net access in the world.
• people will tell you “uhm acktually wireless internet is the speed of light also as it communicates via photons”, but will usually leave out all of the interference it experiences.

There’s nothing better than fibre optic infrastructure for general public Internet connectivity. Wireless/satellite should only be a last resort for remote users.

‘Disappointed’ is certainly not the language I’d use in her position. I’d remind Trump that future presidents may follow his lead and pardon his attempted assassins. TACO in no time.

What the hell does it take for US centrist/centre-left politicians to be outraged?

Because North Korea doesn’t make any geopolitical moves without asking China first. They are by far their primary trade partner and arguably closest ally, with literally the only defense treaty to China out of all countries in the world.

Troops getting to Russia in order to fight alongside them in their invasion of Ukraine have to either pass through China for the shorter route, or go through the tiny 17km sliver of Russia-NK border on the far east of the Asian continent that China monitors very closely (more likely). Either way, China is giving their approval to NK for the troop movements.

Gen X are only just behind millennials according to the trash article, and Gen Z not far behind them.

Just sensationalist generational-war crap to keep us from the class war… Standard stuff for Fortune.

“About 66% of millennials report moderate or high levels of burnout, according to a recent report from Aflac. Gen X trails closely behind with a reported burnout rate of 60%, and Gen Z follows, with a rate of 56%"

I don’t see how grant immunity, sign documents, transfer them to US - take all documentation and knowledge, higher court later declares the immunity invalid, execute them for war crimes was off the table. It would likely be legal. It would surely be less immoral than letting them free.

What, did the US generals not want to have a bad rep with future war criminals??

‘Gosh no we can’t do that - we made a pinky swear to some of the worst people who ever lived’.