That hasn’t been proven yet, and plants and trees do have sensations and awareness of others around them.

Also I don’t understand how you can reconcile your opinion about animals when they hunt each other, play with their preys, and are sometimes cannibalistic.

5 minutes ago on Hacker News, among a lot of stupid stuff like “your life is empty without having ads all around you.”

Reference for fun: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596333

The web has been cleaned with uBlock Origin. Doing that IRL would be great. And for every stupid counter argument (I’ve seen those on HackerNews), I don’t tolerate brain washing.

The most stupid argument I’ve seen is from an American who said “what if you don’t know about the effects of a drug that could save your life?” Well, that’s the job of the doctor. Your society has failed if you rely on marketing to eat random chemical dangerous stuff.

Only if I was desperate.

Can you give some examples that I unknowingly use and improves my life?

If they knew what they wanted, they wouldn’t use Windows.

malvertising and misinformation

You pretty much described most ads. What is the difference?

I almost forgot the monthly “let’s make encryption illegal” from the EU.

Implementation is easy. It requires respect for human beings though.

In the USA.

You should try Afghanistan, it’s full of vigilantes that you seem to like.

I buy consoles because i don’t want to setup, configure, fix, ant upgrade computers.

Tim Berners-Lee, who is a well-known proponent of internet privacy

The guy that advocated for DRM in HTML? We should have stopped listening to him a long time ago, he’s not a god.

I’m an old gamer (almost 50) and I don’t have time to play every game out there. I know that I should play Symphony of the Night but haven’t had time to try it yet, but I will.

Hollow Knight is fun for me because it’s not complicated, it’s pretty, the music is nice (I bought it on Bandcamp), and it’s a slow game with a lot of levels and a quiet and/or peaceful lore. I haven’t played it for a long time (any kind of game actually because I’m busy) but I know that when I try it again, it will be there as usual, and I will be able to explore old or new levels whether I have 10 minutes or 2 hours to play.

I don’t know if it’s a good metroidvania and I don’t think I care. I would put it on the same level as Shantae: there is no rush, have fun. You may say that it’s good for old people and I would agree. There are slow metroidvanias (Hollow Knight, Shantae, Guacamele 1/2) and fast metroidvania (Shovel Knight maybe) where you have to play regularly or you may forget what the thing is all about. With Hollow Knight, the story will stay in my head for a long time.

Last but not least, I would put Metroid (and the 2D variants: SNES, GBA) in the slow category since you can stop playing for some time and get back to the story without too much hassle. I guess it depends whether you prefer the Metroid OR the Vania side of those games.

2025 after the Fourth Coming of Jesus, which should be the year 5837 for us.

Torrenting in a café? Get Mullvad and stop complaining.

It happened to me and I refused in an internal email with a lot of people in CC (the CEO was included). I politely explained why it was very illegal and why I wouldn’t do it. They stopped asking me because “they knew that I knew that they knew.”

If it’s the same kind of company, you would say yes, the client would discover the lie, and your company would fire you in less than a few minutes. You usually don’t last long in that kind of environment.

I think corporations using it in unfunny ways to sell something is the worst and killed it for real. But all your examples are good too.

AI will replace human beings by generating shitty JS games and solving leetcode problems. But still no concrete example on a real codebase that is not written in JS.

Why are they spending billions on this?

“I hate you guys, kill yourself” said Jesus probably during daylight saving time because he didn’t sleep enough.