Naja, die AfD ist ja nicht erst seit gestern ein Thema. Die führen das weiter, was schon vor langer Zeit mit der NPD anfing und dann um 2014 mit Pegida erst mal richtig Traktion bekam, nämlich die Etablierung von rechtsextremem Gedankengut im politischen Mainstream. Im Parlament sitzt die Partei ja nun auch schon seit sieben Jahren.

More like in favour of non-shitty Bluetooth earbuds. I’ve never had this kind of issue with mine.

Dreamfall Chapters was the first game where I stopped and thought for 15 minutes about a choice I needed to make, and its implications.

Life is Strange, LiS: Before The Storm, and LiS: True Colors, hve a special place in my heart for their deeply engrossing and moving stories, and for really getting me to care about the characters and their fates.

The first Witcher game was one that drew me in so much that I immediately started a second playthrough upon finishing the first. I have never done that with any other game.

Hardspace: Shipbreakers stuck with me for being such an excellent melange of complex puzzle, industrial accident simulator, and poignant satire on the state of labour in late stage capitalism.

But where are they offering it? Big cities and densely populated areas where people have options and therefore won’t swarm to the product? Or are they offering it in small, remote towns where there’s not a lot of competition?

Where I live, mobile home internet is not available outside of metro areas and larger cities, and in the regions mobile towers are chronically underprovisioned and overloaded.

I don’t actually have any particular problem with that. So he dabbled in Goth - nothing wrong with it. I’ve been around that particular block, and the Goths I’ve met were very nice people. I’ve had my own leather and medieval phases, and am not embarrassed about them. If anything, they taught me a bit about variety and individuality, and helped make me the person I am today. Maybe if Musk had actually leaned into it properly and allowed himself to explore that or another niche space, maybe even find himself in it, he might be a bit more balanced and happy today.

‘Mass murder’ is not a ‘good idea’ in any context.

I literally never saw Musk as a real life Tony Stark. He always was more or less ‘some tech executive’ to me, but my perception of him change to ‘toxic shithead’ the moment he lashed out at people criticising his submarine idea.

Net neutrality isn’t going to do a thing about this kind of stuff. In a best case scenario, you’ll end up with overall data usage limitations - no more ‘unlimited mobile data’.

ISPs meter data usage because it’s pretty much the only way they can impose some form of limitation on a finite capacity to provide such data to you and other customers - other than data rate limits (read: slower speeds). They can’t guarantee data rates in almost any setup, because ultimately, while ‘data usage’ is a bit of an artificial construct and ‘data’ is not in any way finite, the pipes that deliver the data certainly are of finite capacity. Mobile data capacity - and in fact, any wireless medium - is a shared medium, the more people try to use it simultaneously, the less pleasant it’s going to be for each individual user. Ask Starlink users in many US areas how overselling limited capacity impacts the individual user.

Mobile data usage also has different usage patterns than if you’re hotspotting your PC. You’re not going to download massive games or other bandwidth hogs to your mobile. You probably won’t be running a torrent client either. So they can give you unlimited mobile data because you’re simply not going to put as much of a strain on the infrastructure with pure on-device usage than you will with hotspotting.

This isn’t a defense of what AT&T is doing. But net neutrality isn’t going to force them to suddenly be all ethical. It’s not going to make them provision infrastructure that doesn’t fall over at the first signs of higher-than-usual load. And it certainly can’t change the physical realities of wireless data communication. In an ideal world ISPs wouldn’t be so greedy and/or beholden to greedy shareholders to be cutting corners, and instead provide sufficient infrastructure that can handle high demand.

And to those who are talking about their workarounds: you may not like it but you’ve signed a contract. That contract stipulates acceptable use, and if you’re found to be breaching the contract terms, the other party is within their rights to terminate the contract. Again, in an ideal world these contract terms would be more balanced towards the needs of the customer, but in the meantime your best recourse against unfavourable contract terms is to take your business elsewhere. And if you can’t do that, everything else is at your own risk.

Except there is no ‘unlimited’ for water or electricity.

Ich kann mich an Zeiten erinnern, wo die CDU noch mit Inhalten regierte oder Wahlkampf betrieb. Nicht unbedingt mit Inhalten, die mir gefielen oder denen ich zustimmte, aber es waren Inhalte.

Jetzt machen sie wirklich nur noch Kulturkampf.

Der Hass, der sich gegen nicht-rechte Politiker richtet, ist aber auch weitaus drastischer und gefährlicher als ‘empathieloses Arschloch’.

Irgendwie können die Rechten alle nur austeilen, aber nix einstecken.

Not sure where I showed ‘clear anger’ but you do you.

Oh… you’re one of those critics.

Oh, you mean the same stupid joke we can read in literally every comment thread about Apple adding features to iOS?

What was Android’s most recent groundbreaking feature, and when was it released?

Klassisch Konservative: sich über vermeintliche Zwänge von anderen aufregen, während man indessen selbst konstant anderen reale Zwänge auferlegt. Jede Beschuldigung ist ein Bekenntnis.

Klar kann man sich über beides gleichzeitig ne Platte machen, aber ich weiss, was mir grössere Sorgen macht.

Du willst nicht, dass ein Chef seinen Mitarbeitern über Politik erzählt. Ich will nicht, dass Faschisten an die Macht kommen.

Hatten die auch Faschisten, die nach der Macht strebten und jegliche Demokratie abschaffen wollten?

Ich halte es moralisch für extrem schwierig, dass wir in Deutschland eine Nazipartei haben, die sich anschickt, mehr und mehr Macht zu gewinnen, und angesichts dessen darüber diskutieren, ob ein Chef seinen Mitarbeitern über Politik erzählen darf.