The door lock I can understand for safety reasons. Bricking the whole thing because one part broke is lazy programming.

Korea has had a long running problem with entrenched patriarchy and extremist feminists that spawned in response.

The hypocrite removes videos and other content at the behest of his other authoritarian buddies. Like in Turkey. If you ask me, safety should’ve just blocked and banned twitter from Australia.

I know Toyota is still ragging on EVs because they invested a lot into hydrogen tech and want that to be the next big thing instead. But I didn’t know Honda, Mazda and Suzuki also under-invested.

It’s the policy of an entire political party. Remember “War on Your Weekend”?

They may not have to maximise profits but the shareholders will question every decision that doesn’t maximise profits so the result is the same. That’s why activist investors that push companies to more ethical behaviour are important.

And the tankies on lemmy wonder why those of us with Chinese descent don’t like mainlanders. This. This is why.

I think the hate is them essentially selling a difficulty slider.

Selling character changes when you can’t start a new game without deleting all game data and cache.

Something something bOtH sIdEs.

We have the same system in Australia. Constitution sets a maximum govt term but a parliamentary majority can call an election at any time before then.

No one asked the residents huh.

Good question. Maybe the same reason why Elon “humour is now legal again” Musk can’t take a little teasing?

Anything for the 'gram.

I’d argue that if you never played, then getting one of those packages would actually make you play worse than someone who’s played from the start.

MLK had the Black Panthers and Nation of Islam as looming threats. Gandhi is also the one who said “pacifism without violence is not pacifism, it is helplessness.” A violent counterpart to a non-violent movement helps by being the stick to the non-violent carrot.