Xirgil

But if you own the hardware there's nothing to legally prevent you from severing the power to whatever sensors/hardware onstar is using, no?

Enough just to feed them, or enough to actually be considered payment?

I thought the consensus was that corvee labor was used, rather than outright slavery.

Interesting, I was reading some comments from Japanese users and they said the Japanese voice sounds like a (very good N1 level) foreigner speaking Japanese.

And in doing so they mention genetics.

You really don't understand why nature/genetics having a large impact on people's personality, thus behavior, and thus life outcomes is taboo?

London has sky high rents for young professionals while also taxing them exorbitant amounts that ends up subsidize social housing for "economically inactive" people. I would not call that efficient.

Microsoft didn't kill Gears of War out of ineptitude or malice. It's just that consumers don't want to play cover shooters anymore. There's no market for the game's core identity. People's tastes have swung hard in the opposite direction, they want movement shooters.

Do you have any recommended reading on this topic? I'd like to brush up.

SpaceX absolutely gets a lot of criticism. There's people shouting to nationalize it for crying out loud.

I won't deny that there's nerfs, but do you not see how "Product reviews used to go to higher quality blogs, Reddit, Consumer Reports now are now just all content filler sites." and "People trying to sell you things are spending billions of dollars on SEO to junk up your results" are related

Search is going downhill at least in part because they're dealing with an entire industry that's adversarial to them. SEO companies are spending billions of dollars and countless man-hours with the explicit goal of making search worse. The fact that they've gotten even better tools in the form of GenAI for manipulating search hasn't helped.

It means that private industry is doing a better job of allocating funding and meeting demand.

So what would you call the social movement and ideology being described?