Unfortunately, they predicted a bad actor getting access to their server/devices. Reality is even stupider since someone accidentally included a journalist in their classified group chat.

Then why bring it up and say someone will correct you if you're wrong?

Not to mention billboards, whose only purpose is to distract drivers and take their eyes off the road.

If absolutely nothing else, it's conflating support for Palestinians with support for Hamas and is suggesting that the use of indiscriminate explosives is a cool and funny thing to do (assuming you believe him that it was a joke).

But more to the point, if you were to randomly say "I hope you don't die" or "I hope you don't get cancer" or even "I hope you don't stub your toe in the middle of the night" while having a heated argument with someone, it will never be taken as you actually hoping for those things to not happen.

If you're thinking about proportional representation, that's a separate thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

Then go away and live your life. Let the people who are angry and energized yell at companies to try and get better conditions for consumers.

Reversing technologies that meet the new standard must be installed in all new vehicle models from 1 November 2025.

Apparently Australia only got around to it last year, but they're requiring it to be implemented a lot faster.

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Starting Season 10, all new heroes will be immediately unlocked when they launch. All existing heroes will also be unlocked for players. This means that heroes will no longer need to be unlocked through the Battle Pass to be playable in all game modes.

New players will still need to complete the first-time user experience to unlock heroes as they learn the ropes. Once the heroes from the original Overwatch roster have been unlocked, all Overwatch 2 heroes will also become available.

So unless there was another change, new players still need to play/win games in order to unlock the full roster.

I think they're referring to the 1953 coup that the CIA was definitely involved with, but I'm not too sure how involved the US was in the 1979 revolution. The US probably didn't have much influence in that one considering how long the Iran hostage crisis lasted.

It does not diminish my enjoyment of the game, I do not care because it does not affect me.

If it does bother me, doesn't that make it fine to complain about it? If I don't like seeing microtransactions in a game I paid full price for (or even just the trend of this happening across the industry), or if I don't like knowing that some features in the game that used to be free were put into a cash shop, or if I don't like that executives are trying to monetize every aspect of my experience, even after they've already gotten money out of me, shouldn't it be well within my right to criticize the game and company for degrading my experience?

And if you truly aren't bothered by it but see that some people are, should you really be trying to defend the practice? You have every right to not be bothered by in-game monetization and not complain about it, but do you really need to try and convince other people that are bothered by it that it isn't really such a big deal?

Another big example is any web-browser that isn't safari. That should be changing soon/recently (see here https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050478/apple-ios-17-4-browser-engines-eu) but that's only because Apple was forced to.