ACAB.

Removed by mod

Ew, no, thanks. Feels like he got this “idea” from some slop machine.

Just tax them, regulate them, fine them into bankruptcy, and sue them for crimes against humanity.

Use taxes and regulations to incentivize cooperatives and disincentivize private companies.

Tax revenue and income progressively (starting on the negatives: if you’re below the mean you get money), reaching 100% for anything above 100,000$/month for individuals and 100,000$/month/employee for companies.

Scale fines with personal wealth/ valuation, so that they have the same impact regardless of wealth.

Tax and regulate the stock exchange like the gambling joint that it is.

Hold CEOs, boards, and stockholders personally responsible for any crimes or torts committed by their companies.

Nationalise any companies that provide first needs or anything remotely resembling a utility, and turn them into cooperatives.

Tax 100% of any wealth over, say, ten times the mean.

I don’t know, there’s so many better things to do than spreading this cancer over all the population. All this would do is make it hit harder once the bubble pops.

for those of us not willing to write a fucking CPU

There’s insane maniacs who’ve written fucking CPUs in CSS, Minecraft, and Conway’s game of life, among many other environments not intended for writing fucking CPUs.

Can’t some insane maniac simply write a fucking CPU for FPGAs and release it as open source?

Plenty of insane maniacs have released lots of more useless stuff as open source, why not this?

(Using insane maniac as a compliment here; the world would be a much more boring and unenjoyable place without insane maniacs willing to waste their time making it a better or at least more interesting place.)

By any measure they are “very smart”.

Psychopaths. The word you’re looking for is psychopaths.

CEOs are objectively utter and complete evil morons, though.

Because LLMs and similar generative “AI” tools aren’t intelligent.

Nor, arguably, are they artificial, since the models are grown rather than built.

The Spanish National police

This was apparently the ertzaintza, though.

They have been gradually becoming a highly professional and civilised police force

Sure, but to make up for that there’s still the guardia civil.

ACAB, and I can’t believe I’m defending Spain, whose police would almost certainly have done the same, but it seems to be the ertzaintza, the Basque police, so if anyone they’re supposed to represent Euskadi, not Spain.

ACAB, but I’d have expected it to be the guardia civil (for some cops are more bastards than others), but looks like it was the ertzaintza, the Basque police.

Which means that Israel has even less of an argument, since it’s not either of the two main Spanish police forces, and they’re not directly under the Spanish government’s jurisdiction.

could

should

no new characters for like a thousand years now. One map.

I’m sorry, what…!?

Fantastic setting (I could spend days just playing tourist around Night City), great story and characters (and the characters don’t just stand there talking to you like in Bethesda’s games, there’s actual acting in there), enjoyable gameplay, beautiful graphics…

Sure, it got a bit of flak when it released due to the console cartels forcing it to run on highly inadequate ancient hardware, but I’ve been playing it from day one on an even older but properly specced PC and I could count the bugs I’ve experienced on the fingers of one hand, with fingers to spare.

And CD Projekt kept improving and expanding it for years after release, so it’s even better now.

It doesn’t have the same feeling as GTA V

How is that supposed to be a bad thing?

Can’t speak for the older ones because… well, they’re not before my time, I was an avid PC gamer back then, but I somehow missed them (no Internet yet, and maybe they weren’t sold where I live?)… but Morrowind was great. Janky and broken as all fuck, but great. Fantastic setting, great magic system where you could make your own spells, terrible but useable skill system, no handholding whatsoever (the game doesn’t give a flying fuck if you don’t know what a “foyada” is even if such knowledge is essential to find your way around, and that’s great, modern games almost play themselves, so what even is the point of playing, then?), and you could wear mismatched pauldrons. Haven’t found a game that topped that yet. Way too many cliff racers, sure, but still, it was a fantastic game.

Then Bethesda got downhill from there. Modders saved TES IV and V and Bethesda’s Fallouts, but not even them could do anything for Starfield.

What positive attributes does Monopoly have?

Well, it’s supposed to teach the players that for most participants capitalism’s a mug’s game. 🤷

No, no, it’s a reverse funnel, see…?

Those are media formats (the first ones having different purposes anyway).

None of them had any significant exclusive content, because it’d have been an extremely dumb decision and no one would have bought it.

You’re comparing apples to oranges.

You can have both. V in Cyberpunk 2077, for instance.

I’d plan to download even more torrents of netflix series, but it’s not like they’ve got anything worth watching anyway.