You've hit the nail on the head.
Companies pushing for AI are playing a short game, not a long game. They have not considered the consequences of this course after a short term return (which may not materialize anyway).
The whole AI debacle is a great example of why it's bad to have engineering developments without the philosophical conversations. We need the A in STEAM to tell the E's when they're opening Pandora's Box.
You can change your name to whatever you want. Imagine if your last name were Epstein, or Trump. No one would question your motivation.
This is a bit of an oversimplification.
If in the US, you can generally change your name at whim, usually after a petition and fee. But it depends on your state. Some states require a hearing to do a name change. Some require a publication, and some will only allow the change after a waiting period.
All states will generally deny name change requests which are deemed to be fraudulent (details of that depend on state), to avoid debt, or to be harmful/hateful to others. Sometimes the definitions of these terms is not terribly clear, in which case the state can simply deny it with vague reasoning.
Edit: and apologies if this isn't in the US. I'm not familiar with other systems.
+1 for heliboard.
GBoard has good recognition, but I'd rather my keyboard didn't just siphon off whatever I type.
Psh, even I could do that!
Heads to Claude Code....
It's so weird though. Do they not know it exists? Do they expect their customers not to know it exists?
When your primary competition is free (and arguably better), the last thing one should think to do is raise prices.
I can only assume that some C-suites are looking at numbers and don't know what else to do but make the product more expensive.
At this point I just stay away from PVP, PVE, MMORPG, or anything thay requires me to connect and play with others.
Part of it is the number of bad actors. Another part is I just like having non-toxiv gaming time. I miss when single-player experiences were the norm.
Same. Chalk one up for good conversation on Lemmy.
Playing by the rules went away a loooooong time ago. At this point the Dems just look silly for even bringing it up.
Or you could make stools from stumps of a cut up log. This seems more efficient and you get multiples per tree.
This. The GOP has wanted to privatize USPS forever. They keep it barely functioning so they can point at it and claim that only private industry can save it. Then they bring in their friends and throw those sweet taxpayer dollars into their own coffers.
Amazon's role isn't surprising here, either. Bezos couldn't get closer to the Trump admin if he were sleeping in Melania's bed.
Expect similar moves to be taken towards privatization of ATC in the US. Thankfully it's much more heavily regulated, so it has at least taken more time and is harder to choke as quickly.
To look at this another way: the government of South Korea has decided to give people the feeling of a strike without actually letting it affect bottom lines in any meaningful way. That is, they have relegated the strike (a key utility of those fighting for workers' rights) to being a tool used solely to assuage discontent in the short term. Without economic teeth, it cannot be used to enhance the lives of workers, which is ultimately the explicit goal of any strike.
South Korea is of course not alone in reducing or eliminating the rights of its citizens so that corporations continue to profit at their expense.
That's the arguably part. The argument.