Would you want to live in the same town as a nuclear power plant maintained by Microsoft?

I wonder of Facebook's advertisers know about their plans for faux-engagement.

You don't think more interactive NPCs in a GTA game is a hugely desired upgrade in a sequel? Heh.

My words stung because you know on each point I brought up, including the important one you casually ignored, is disproportionately worse for PC Gamers. The "holier than thou" attitude over-zealous PC gamers have is hilariously un-justified.

Heh Windows users are funny.

Allo! Somewhere between back-to-back-to-back family emergencies and work projects keeping me too busy to lurk like I used to. I hope you are well.

Heh. The public doesn't trust a for-profit org to not cut corners with safety, and they have reason to do so.

It's not a tech thing, it's the humans running it that people are fearful of and I don't blame them. I hope anybody who feels compelled to mod my remark down will at least look up the methane leak in Aliso Canyon, California. The local populace's health was not their first priority.

You're overpaying on hardware to play DRM'd games with cheaters. Nice flex.

I might be able to offer some context behind that. Google Glass was a huge PR disaster, the big pain-point being about data collection. It's not that surprising coming from that angle.

That said, you are absolutely correct that Meta's hunger for data is legendary. That's why I won't buy stock in them. Think of what an epic Facebook data leak could look like.

To get to the other side!

Heh. Sticker shock. China's laughing their collective asses off today.

Did you shout about this when a bunch of states started working on weakening child labor laws?

Ah yes, "bring your own lube". Thank you for your contribution to this discussion.

The hilarious thing about this is the White House balked at the transparency... but wasn't the whole point to herd customers to American made (meaning- 'tariff-exempt') products?

Also... wouldn't simply monitoring their output goals be the right way to do this? It's info a business needs anyway and doesn't require external access from 3rd parties.

The Youtubers I watch that go into more 'mature' content (like police-cam footage...) will often do the "Monetization Edit", then provide a link from that vid to the uncensored unmonetized version.

The link I was trying to show you was an example of YT providing easy-to-find pirated content.