The article, and especially much of the discussion here, is about how privatisation has led to this situation. Privatisation of a public utility which _even in many other developed liberal capitalist countries_ is not privatised. Yet to you this is not evidence that we are an extreme example of neoliberalism, but somehow “defacto socialist” and your solution is throwing fuel on the fire with more privatisation. You’re living on a different planet, mate.
Fruiter Aero is a term that retroactively applies to the style of a certain time. Look at Windows Vista. Windows Vista's design is what we now call Fruitger Aero. Windows Vista came out in 2007. It's a retroactive term, yes, but how can you claim the thing it refers to didn't exist before 2007, when Windows Vista is a shining example of it?
I'm not sure how you've come to that impression. The boards I used to frequent are hobbyist ones, not political, yet they have people calling each other the n-word all the time. On /fit/ anything done by a large corporation or as a moneymaking scheme is talked about as if it's a Jewish conspiracy, to the point where they call highly-processed food "goyslop". /g/ hates Indians and calls software and technology that it likes "the white man's choice." I could go on. This pervasive background of racism is all over 4chan, and I wonder why you're trying to downplay it.
> Why not pick a good option? Why go through the trouble then be like, fuck it, Ill pick a shitty option?
You're assuming way too much active thought and choice on the part of the people who don't care about cookies. You're assuming that it was a choice between options at all.
In my case, a website I was happening to read mentioned the I Don't Care About Cookies extension, and I thought, "oh, it'd be nice to have something that stops all of those annoying cookie pop-ups" and installed it. That is all. Is such an action really an "anti-progressive and pro-shitty attitude"? Am I really harming you or myself or society by doing that?
Neither dietary cholesterol nor saturated fat nor sugar are bad in moderation, and that's completely orthogonal to the point of them providing probiotics.
Tech workers are extremely ununionised, especially in the US. While this may be the case in other industries (though I doubt it - Germany famously has much better labour laws than the US and other European countries), I don’t think it has any effect on developer salaries.
Sure, to the technical definition of assets, but the point is that by definition fractional reserve banks don’t have the money on hand to pay out if all of their customers decided to withdraw at once.
Approximately every house has an aerial, its presence is not a good indicator of if there’s a TV hooked up to it. I think most likely they just look through your window.
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