Suzuran

Free will is the most expensive thing in the world.

Well, duh, I mean, if they have to pick a side, how are they supposed to continue fleecing both sides?

Don't worry, they can just throw it away when it becomes inconvenient.

How does that work, don't the immigrants become Germans when they gain citizenship?

Well, they aren't running any camps yet, so how can you prove they will actually run camps in the future? You can't, so internet argument rules require you must accept that the opposite is factual.

I told the leopard I did not consent to my face being eaten, but it ate my face anyway.

Even if it's in bad faith, that doesn't make it invalid, and internet argument rules require you continue to engage.

Management always takes credit for labor.

I thought it was to force people who are running smaller services to give up. Decreasing the number of services on the internet decreases its total attack surface, therefore simple logic dictates that to maximize total internet security we should make it as difficult and expensive as possible to operate a service on the internet.

No, a long uptime is evidence of the crime of not sacrificing sufficiently on the altar of security. You must be constantly interrupting service for security patches, firmware updates, release upgrades, etc. so your users are constantly reminded that security is your paramount concern.

>why the hell would anyone want a job where a mistake results in personal ruin?

I guess you think pilots, doctors, air traffic controllers, etc. are all made up?

Netscape died because we all hated it. Back when Apache didn't exist yet, we were forced to run Netscape's server. (Even if Apache did exist, we didn't have the $20K per-seat license fee for DEC's C compiler so we wouldn't have been able to compile it anyway). Netscape's license terms were such that we had to open our books to them. They would read through all of our transactions and decide how much we would have to pay them that term. If they saw transactions to a party they didn't like, they would charge us more. They had no competition in our space, so they could name their terms. There was no competition and they liked it that way. When Apache became available we switched to it out of spite.

My mother was looking for cheat codes for some video game she was playing and she ended up on Fandom. I had installed uBlock Origin for her because she had a history of being victimized by malware. Fandom detected it and served her the "BLOCKING ADS IS STEALING FROM YOUR FELLOW FANS!" scare stuff, with instructions for removing uBO. She followed the instructions because she thought that's what she needed to do to access the information, and Fandom immediately served her ransomware.

Great, now every website can block those operating systems since they can't participate in the age assurances the websites will be required to use.

On days when I need gas I just leave for work about 10 minutes earlier than usual and drive to Costco, which means I turn up at the station about 15 minutes after the fuel pumps open and several hours before the actual store opens. I've never had to wait; I don't think I've ever seen more than 4 cars there. Then I just drive from the Costco to work. This only adds about one mile to the trip.

The Costco is always packed in the afternoon though, both the store and the pumps. I think everyone waits for the store to open, or they wait for their lunch break on the assumption that it will be worse during the evening commute.