You are now under arrest by the US DOJ.

True

Vehicular homicide! Hilarious! /s

All of that is true, but I still think “monopoly” is not the right word. It’s a bit of a unique situation. Ideally we’d have laws that make Steam provide a downloadable copy of the game that can work without Steam… but we’re so far from that.

Because a lot of people equate “some are less harmful than others” with “I fucking love this guy and think he’s a harmless saint!”

I agree with most of what you wrote, but I think it getting discontinued was foreseeable and it not being compatible with anything not-apple was guaranteed. So given those two things it couldn’t have been possibly worth it, from the get go.

Haha I remember the fanboys rabidly defending the cost of this product. Soon they will literally be $4000 paperweights.

A kernel older than a couple of weeks seems old to me…

There is competition. And the term “monopolize” is used as a way of saying someone took action to stomp out the competition so I would say that 99% of people would assume intent whether or not it’s technically a part of the definition, because 99% of the time a monopoly exists it’s not by accident. But again, importantly, there IS competition.

The term monopoly does not apply here. Not only do we lack any evidence of anti-competitive practices, there literally are competitors, they just suck and they are very unpopular.

I rightly point out that you’re a hypocrite and a fraud and all you do is whine about bad faith. Ironic. People die because you are not just unchristian, but anti-christian. And you try to defend your support for murder, uncharitability, and cruelty with the Bible. One must conclude you don’t read the Bible because it’s full, front to back, of the reasons you’d be hellbound. Nazis never change.

I appreciate this response. I wish more online interactions with slight disagreements could go exactly like this!

I see. I never got that it was a joke whoosh

“I NEED all of these tabs!”

I have never understood this argument. Extra ram to me is in case I need it, not a new reason to try and test how much my machine can handle.

Quality shitpost lol

Yeah, I kinda am on the same page as you but I do think modern judginess in contexts like this can get to be too much. Practically none of the language changes proposed really bother me, after at least a little time to think about them, I just get a little annoyed when some of the more benign ones seem to be pushed as similar to the other more terrible ones. An example would be “master bedroom”. Basically no one would ever naturally think of that as racist or of a racist origin, though it probably is a relic of the slavery era. So while I think it’s good to try and move away from the term, if someone told me I shouldn’t say it in conversation, I wouldn’t find it helpful and I would find it annoying. I think there should be priorities because people do have limited brain space for new replacement terms. I could probably list 20 words that have become unusable in my lifetime so far, and I have no issue with basically all of them, but if every time I say one of the more engrained, less harmful ones, I’m told I shouldn’t say it, my human reaction is to get annoyed. If you had approached it a little more softly here I don’t think I’d mind at all. Like “Just so you know, this term has origins in being derogatory to Asians” for example. Starting off with “don’t say that” without explanation hits much differently imo. So it’s partially about priorities and partially about approach for me.

I just had a “Christian” defend doing that with a string of Bible verses. Not even kidding. According to them, “charity shouldn’t be mandatory” and it’s in the Bible and this means killing millions of people and creating suffering in millions of others.

‘beaner’ is literally a racial slur that I instantly recognized as sounding exactly like what you wrote. Doesn’t matter if you’ve heard of it.

I’m not sure why you’re here trying to scold me for this. I explained what you meant and expressed understanding of it.

And yet if you use this platform for 10 minutes you’ll know Nazis aren’t welcome here. Nazis are hated here. As they should be, here, and everywhere else.