There are a couple of steps missing at the beginning. There was a time when we only blocked popups; other types of ad were fine, but popups were annoying enough that they needed special attention, and the popup-blocker was usually built-in to the browser without needing an extension. It took a couple of years for the non-popup types of ads to become obnoxious enough to warrant blocking.

He’s not really a racist.

No, he is. Yeah, he’ll pick up and abandon most positions at the drop of a hat, but racism has been one thing that he’s been consistent with, going back at least to the Central Park Five.

There’s also Pipeline for *nix (and possibly Windows, but I didn’t bother to check.)

No, she’s just ghosting you.

All I know about Bavaria is that their sheep seldom wear spectacles. Do sheep wear spectacles more often in Schleswig-Holstein?

And they’d still need to maintain their non-US factories due to the retaliatory tariffs many countries are putting on US products.

Making America great again by increasing Samsung’s market share.

No! Use your power for good! Switch to Facebook and X!

Any time something bad happens in a capitalist system, it’s because of capitalism.

Any time something bad happens in a communist system, it’s because of capitalism.

Often? Try always. Revolutions are, by definition, change in leadership brought about by force of arms. Since violence was necessary to establish the regime, violence will be necessary to maintain it.

Beyond that, Marxism is predicated on the division of the people into the “proletariat” and “bourgeoisie”, with one of the key aims of any Marxist regime being the oppression of the bourgeoisie (as well as any member of the proletariat determined to be a “class-traitor”.) Violent, oppressive dictatorships aren’t just an unfortunate side-effect of socialist revolutions, they’re the only possible outcome.

So will they add public transit directions? That’s the main reason why I still use Google Maps.

Better start mass-producing Big Zam.

Just take a common word and remove a vowel or two. That’s still hip, right?

Distros need to make working with flatpacked applications easier. It’s way too hard to figure out where files are being saved or how to give apps access to the right resources. FlatSeal helps, but it’s not really geared towards casual users.

We could add credit cards to the Interac system.

Yes. Twenty years ago. Now take a look at what Nintendo and Microsoft have been doing just within the past couple of years (as well as what they were doing twenty years ago and beyond, since they both have long track records of shitty behaviour.)

Yes, Sony is not a good company, but we’re comparing them to Nintendo and Microsoft here.

All game console companies famously keep trying to fuck everyone else over. Sony actually comes off fairly well compared to Nintendo and Microsoft.

Exactly. Never do anything until you can do everything all at once. If you can’t wave a magic wand and solve all problems everywhere, it’s best to just keep the status quo.

Never even qualified for SOLDIER.

We got Gimp 3 before The Winds of Winter.