Taking away buttons only to make you pay to get them back is the literal definition of this trend.

Not being under Microsoft's thumb IS the benefit.

How's that jackboot taste, sycophant?

Ah, the 'if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear' canard. Prieless.

I don't know why they're looking for old books, they've already stolen them all. These Theft Engine builders only have the product of their own Theft Engines to further train themselves now. And so on, and so on, until nothing is left but bland, lifeless digital gray goo.

what will they think of next?

When some douche uses a Theft Engine agent that plugs in code swiped from some other project, so much for your 'open source' notions. Maybe that arrogant prick will finally fuck off for good though, so there's a silver lining!

Or I had the wrong acronym. Hah.

The EFF claims running a private Minecraft server is illegal. The EFF can eat a soggy candy bar from my ass.

The feds are telling people to cut power now? The feds that are Republicans? But I thought that was communist! Isn't that what they all bleated when Mamdani said that?

When you're too lazy to actually use AI to do your job, just have another AI tell the first to do it for you!

So if you're rich enough and suck Trump's dick enough, I guess you literally CAN just buy the law.

Get back to me when he stops aiding and abetting the child rapists in his own church. THEN i might give a shit what he has to say.

China's going to have nothing on us.

Who could have seen this coming?