I replaced CC with:

Affinity suite (v2, pre Canva, still works) for Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign, it is pretty impressive if your Adobe workflow doesn't rely heavily on plugins. The InDesign equivalent can do stuff to PDFs, but you won't find the form builders etc. that Acrobat has.
Exposure x7 for a Lightroom-alike, it's not as good (noticeably, highlight recovery from blown-out RAWs is much better in Lightroom) but it does the job for me
DaVinci Resolve for Premier

noooo, not the beautiful boaters!

the software in charge of the drones is going to be based on machine learning algorithms but it isn't gonna be chatbots

for real, the OpenClaw ("the AI that actually does things") home page cites the following as standout use cases:

"Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights."

Come the fuck on, this is what we're burning down the world for? (And then it turns out that it can't even do that shit. Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails)

Even if I were flying so much that checking in were some kind of actual burden - and in this fantasy scenario I didn't have a real life assistant who would do it for me - I wouldn't trust the chatbot to do it without accidentally putting me on the terror watchlist somehow.

smdh, too much American bias in the dataset

ship wasn't designed for the fast-foodification of imperial military chow

102 days, that would be a slow walk through the bardos, but maybe he had some meetings or somethin' idk

rights that challenge existing power structures will never be freely given by those structures. they must be vigorously asserted by the people

$60,000 reward with a "terms and conditions apply, you ain't never gonna see this money" asterisk is just about the most American thing ever. Everything is always a scam, no exceptions

this should be a regular feature of American life

CEOs should be afraid to walk down the street, especially "healthcare" ghouls

Never get in a helicopter, small plane, or Tesla

Nepalese Gurkhas will replace them

Why is it so fucking important that the people washing the clothes not be white

Why do the people washing the clothes need to be a specific ethnicity