Video games with apparently sentient NPCs.

Custom ARM SoCs from AMD and Nvidia for laptops, tablets and handheld consoles, running customized Linux to avoid Microsoft’s fees.

YouTube switches to unskipable server-side ads injection directly into the original video stream, rendering adblockers ineffective. Others soon follow.

Mainstream media starts releasing news in TikTok style videos where the bottom half of the screen plays random Minecraft / satisfying to watch slop.

End to end encrypted communication is quietly outlawed following some terrorist attack, using national security fearmongering. You’ve got nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.

China inevitably invades Taiwan, TSMC burns their fabs down to protect their IP. Samsung and Intel fabs become the most cutting edge process nodes on next cycle, China catches up, profits go up all around.

Google kills Search and now Gemini is their only search engine. Others soon follow.

Housing, rehabilitating and educating homeless people costs the same or less than funding their persecution, prosecution and incarceration while solving the problem instead of perpetuating it

Literally psyops instead of helping. The people who did this are the characters you see getting shot in the movies and don’t feel bad about it.

On the bright side you might be able to buy groceries with robux and vbucks soon

That we should have kept the old road to India instead of listening to Christopher Colombus and his whack ideas?

European here. It makes all of you look worse but from what I’ve seen so far only the orange asshat and his cult have brought this much chaos worldwide.

Bring back boring, boring is good. Otherwise you’re speedrunning the president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho timeline

Am Greek. Working 44 hours on average (40 during winter, 48 during the summer).

Many in the tourism industry, which brings in 13% of Greece’s GDP, work for over 50 hours on average for 6 months, then they work mostly uninsured labor jobs in the winter, so that map only gives you half the truth.

Making a fool of myself on purpose and laughing along. Karaoke bars, stand-up comedy open mic nights, improv theater.

It helps you see that people can’t really see behind each other’s “mask” all that well. All confidence is made up, so play along and it just sort of materializes.

Another way to do that is to try and become fluent in a new language. You build a different persona for each language you use, so might as well become confident in the new one on purpose.

I’m sure they all “volunteered”

We need some strong detergent for those shit stains but I agree, the fight needs to be persistent

I agree with you, we should stop them at every corner. I’m trying to point out that banning them isn’t a fix-all solution, something needs to be done about their voters as well.

In Greece some members of older, more moderate but still far right parties were absorbed by the center right and are now ministers of the government.

Essentially the center right parties tend to steer to the far right a little to gain the far right vote without being labeled a far right party.

This also needs to be addressed.

Same here, the same people couldn’t run again but they asked all their supporters to vote for a specific candidate with a clean rep but essentially a puppet

Greece did something similar a few years ago.

The Golden Dawn far right wing party was declared a criminal organization (after some violence that lead to a few stabbings and at least one death) and their leaders were thrown in jail.

From the ashes of Golden Dawn and a few other populist/Christian conservative/nationalist parties rose a few new ones, with more careful rhetoric and open support from the now jailed golden dawn leaders and high ranking church ministers.

They are collectively holding 26 of the 300 seats in the parliament and are expected to get better results on the next election cycle.

You can ban them all you want, they can still reform into a “we are not far right, wink wink” party after the ban itself verifies their far right status and rise to power all the same.

If Russia attacks Poland directly then half the planet is about to turn to glass within those first couple of weeks

Inb4 Apple sets up a 10 step review process behind 2 pay walls for anything anyone wants to sideload, again.

The orders should be clear: Allow anything to be installed without restrictions on apple mobile devices, including a different OS, or pay billions every month you don’t comply. Or leave EU market. We were fine before the iPhone, we’ll be fine after it.

Article doesn’t mention what’s proposed here or what the EU will provide to Ukraine in return.

Unless we see boots on the ground I don’t think Zelenskyy should be signing anything at this point

And yet if elections were to be held today the people responsible for this would easily hold office.

In fact, the minister responsible for this resigned at the time, then ran at the elections a few weeks later and was elected again by the people of the city with the most dead kids in this accident.

The “Go to your room and think about what you’ve done” approach is weirdly appropriate here

Greece here, we invite people to our homes all the time, even if we don’t know them very well.

Damn. This must be one of the most terrifying cyber attacks of all time. Like, Mr. Robot level of breach and execution.

In that show they rig the UPS batteries of server buildings to blow up, this is basically the same idea on a smaller scale.

Either that, or they compromised the manufacturer of the pagers and put small explosive devices in there. Truly legendary and insane.