The media is pro-Trump, not only because they are wealthy capitalists who agree with his deregulation policies and tax cuts for the rich, but also because they get higher ratings when the masses are angry. Just look at how CNN changed; they might as well just be another pro-Trump network.

Every election is the most important election of our lifetimes, since the right keeps becoming more fascist. No shit, it's exhausting.

Microsoft would prefer that you pirate Windows rather than use Linux, as it further entrenches their dominance in the market.

They mainly make their money off of business licenses anyway, similar to Adobe and Autodesk.

There's a reason massgravel's scripts are hosted on Microsoft's GitHub platform and hasn't been taken down.

Pirating Adobe software is exactly what they want you to do. Their business model relies on businesses paying for their license because people already know how to use their software, in large part because people pirate it, and also they have deals with schools to teach their software.

What Adobe actually doesn't want you to do is to learn the software of their competition, since that's how they will lose money in the long term.

This is one of the most obvious potential cases of purposeful sabatoge. They were probably bribed by other big businesses to destroy their reputation so people would stop using the site.

There's nothing businesses hate more than their workers having negotiating power, and wage transparency gives them more power than they had before. There's a reason why it's considered "rude" in the US to discuss wages with co-workers; I always make a point to discuss my wage with all of my co-workers, since it's illegal for businesses to prevent that discussion.

In most other countries, it's the norm to openly discuss your wages; unions are also more common in other countries. It's just standard toxic workplace cultures trying to prevent people from getting paid what they're worth, or god forbid, forming a union.

But digitizing does have some benefits, like bit-for-bit archival, usually by a "third party"

The Windows equivilent would be instead of putting application data in the AppData folder, it throws it in Documents, My Games, or just in the home folder directly.

Yarr harr fiddle dee dee

Just put the year first :P

I couldn't imagine spending $1 billion in my entire life, let alone 3-4.

Remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows?

Wow. You just somehow accurately summed up the modern day result of late stage capitalism in one post. Nicely done