It’s called xenophobia, the fear and dislike of anything foreign. Some people believe that if your group isn’t dominant it will be dominated, and peaceful coexistence isn’t possible between different groups.

These people are afraid that, if the English language isn’t forced onto other people, one day other people will force a foreign language onto them.

For nerds like me. The female name is short for Brianna or Gabriella. The cheese name is from the French region of Brie where it originated in. That region got its name from the Gaulish word briga meaning “hill” or “height”.

Yes, also a running gag in Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Why did he fail to become president?

They hired a gay actor specifically so they could shoot this one scene.

The Elder Scrolls video game series has a race of cat people known as Khajiit. They’re often found as wandering merchants and repeat the line in OP when you talk to them. Video

How do you pay $2.3 billion in carbon tax rebates and not have anyone know about it? It’s amazing how terrible the communication is.

Fuck your Mitsubishi, I’ve a horse outside!

Kowai yo…

Either that, or every company has woefully underpaid/incompetent IT people

It’s this one. Cox Communications, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the US with $11 billion in revenue, recently patched a bug on their self-serve portal that allowed anyone to access any customer’s profile. The bug was that server requests weren’t being authenticated. If you entered the right info into the URL bar you’d be given a page with anyone’s customer info. No login needed.

This is going to affect hard working Canadians (who make more than $250,000 a year in capital gains)!

Chess player Andrea Botez started an onlyfans page where she posted videos of herself being mated.

Terrible location really. What were they thinking?

Do you have your languages set to both “Undetermined” and “English” in your settings? I had a problem seeing some posts with only one language selected.

I also enjoyed the quote from a man saying “you don’t see little girls playing with model planes” as proof that women genetically aren’t meant to be pilots in an article denying the industry has an inclusion problem that needs to be addressed.

“We’ve noticed a lack of women becoming pilots so we created a DEI department to see if there might be some things we’re doing that is discouraging women from seeking this as a career”

“Hiring women pilots!? How are women going to fly a plane!? They can’t even drive a car! We’re going to get more plane crashes if we hire women as pilots! They should just be a stewardess! And what happened to those short skirts they used to wear?”

“…well good news is we figured out the problem in record time!”

Why on this overwhelmingly zealous communist site are people upvoting this bullheaded victim blaming free hand of the market put down of consumers?

If you complain about Windows having ads, telemetry, and security concerns on this site, you will be told to install Linux. They’re not using a bullheaded victim blaming free hand of the market put down of consumers. They’re telling you there is an alternative that has what you want. You don’t need the government to regulate operating systems. You can just install any one of the many Linux distros.

This is the exact same thing. Stop buying video games with anti-consumer DRM. Video games without these features already exist and are actually the norm. It really isn’t complicated.

You’ve definitely been burnt by these practices at least once and learned better right? So why should we not lobby for change?

Yes. I loved the Hitman series. It now has always online DRM. I haven’t bought a Hitman game since 2012. My life hasn’t been affected negatively in any way. I still have a huge library and backlog of other games without DRM. What would I lobby the government for? Remove DRM from Hitman? What a terribly insignificant thing to concern myself with. I have a backlog of other games to catch up on.

Make yourself a question. If it’s perfectly legal for Ubisoft to “shut down” phisical videogames you bought in the store: why isn’t everybody doing so?

Because people would stop buying their games!

A gust of wind? In the middle of a field? Chance in a million!

Jesus christ does it say that? No it doesn’t. Everyone in this thread is constantly making shit up to make it sound like what Ubisoft did is literal murder. Selling things with no warranty is perfectly legal and the government isn’t going to overturn laws because Ubisoft is a shit company. Just don’t buy from Ubisoft! It’s easy!

Most licenses for software sold at retail disclaim (as far as local laws permit) any warranty on the performance of the software and limit liability for any damages to the purchase price of the software. One well-known case which upheld such a disclaimer is Mortenson v. Timberline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement

Say I go to a furniture store and buy a table. It has a 5 year warranty

It doesn’t. Before you buy the table they make you sign this agreement (which has a typo in it), explicitly stating there is no warranty.

YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT USE OF THE PRODUCT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, THE PRODUCT IS SUPPLIED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE“ BASIS. UBISOFT UBISOFT’S LICENSORS, CHANNEL PARTNERS AND ASSOCIATED SERVICE PROVIDERS DO NOT MAKE AND HEREBY DISCLAIM ANY GUARANTEES, CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY OR OTHER TERMS INCLUDIND AS TO: (A) ITS CONFORMITY, ACCURACY, CURRENTNESS, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY OR SECURITY (B) ITS SUITABILITY FOR A PARTICULAR USE; © IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT; (D) ITS MARKET VALUE; OR (E) YOUR SATISFACTION. UBISOFT DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE PRODUCT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE PRODUCT IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR SELECTING THE PRODUCT TO ACHIEVE YOUR INTENDED RESULTS, AND FOR THE INSTALLATION OF, USE OF, AND RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE PRODUCT.