And just like South Korea, their fertility replacement rate is going to collapse.

To the surprise of absolutely no-one, it turns out that "equality" was just an veneer to allow supremacy to creep in.

As an aside, I know of someone who will be smiling at this topic and saying "I told you so".

All the US Government has to do is label anything it doesn't like as "harmful misinformation" and it can be censored.

Who created the civilisation, culture, society, stadia, technology and instruments that allows you to become financially successful, Taylor?

But what is Ghost Archive?

One of the few archive sites that is able to archive tweets and their replies as Archive Today can not.

"She never demanded YouTube censor anyone... except those men over there who tell uncomfortable truths about human nature and dating".

Those who can't be rebutted are the ones they fear most of all.

Request for comment.

Bear in mind just below the RfC for the ADL, there is also a RfC for The Daily Telegraph.

I'll give it a week before Hinge reverses this move now that it will go viral and attract the media's attention.

Google Vignettes are the new pop up windows.

For those who don't have an effective way to adblock, they now serve five unskippable advertisements instead of two maybe skippable ones every few minutes.

I am convinced that they're making the free experience so annoying you'll beg to pay. Eventually they give up the pretense and paywall all of it with advertising.

It gets worse.

Recently, YouTube started tests which now mandates signing in to view videos. Verifiable phone numbers are required for accounts.

https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/issues/551

While the YouTube video downloaders are finding ways round it, it is a game of whack-a-mole. I wonder if another round of nudging people toward Premium (with ads) is about to begin?

The only way that's ever happened in history is to turn a free-to-view service funded by advertising into a subscription one with advertising as a supplementary funding mechanism. It's what satellite and cable television did and I suspect YouTube is slowing moving toward by making the free service so frustrating that their viewers will beg to pay.

Lockdown and furlough were never, ever going to be a cost free solution. We're all paying the cost of those now.

There was a documentary about a call centre and for data protection reasons, banned outside phones on site. Your phone had to either be left in the car or at home. No exceptions and no mercy if you broke that rule. And that documentary was filmed before the proliferation of smartphones.

I wonder if Elon is going to switch to Linux? At least there everything is modular and you can strip out any outside AI from your distribution. Some Linux and BSD distributions have a strict no AI policy if I recall correctly.

This is exactly what they did with lockdown measures and mandates. Put something out, gauge public reaction, partially withdrawn, have others suggest it, retry and repeat until the public relent and it's fully implemented. Then do the same procedure on something else.

Adobe is behaving the same way too so they can have control of your data for financial gain.

There are vendors who will specifically pick parts that will work with Linux but I suspect they also charge a premium for that certainty.

My laptop currently works fully with Arch Linux but it didn't always. At first I had to use the beta NVidia drivers to play games and it took many months to get the sound working because the essential information needed to see the sound chip in the laptop was coded in the Windows driver and not the ACPI.

I did hear there was also a concern that Adobe could lock you out from your own work if you don't agree to their terms and conditions and it could also assert its right to claim royalty fees for content created with its software that makes money.

Even if you pay, you're the product.

I guess Microsoft has calculated that the cries of "I'll switch to Linux" will be a small percentage of their userbase, companies will still stick to Windows for desktop usage and that Mac OS will either implement a similar feature or will also have people not adopt it in large numbers.

My concern is that Governments are in bed with Microsoft (to the point that organisations are switching from Google Chrome to Microsoft Edge) and they will be rolling out this update on computers that have confidential personal data that could be easily compromised. We may switch to Linux but they most certainly won't.

That will also include the operating system because both Apple and Microsoft will move to a SaaS model behind a paywall.

While they unthinkingly chant "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear".

It makes me think the majority of people want to have their freedom removed for (the perception of) safety.

The problem with retro gaming isn't the cost of the device, it's the cost of the games as they become rarer, get bought up by collectors and succumb to wear, tear and rot.

He'll probably get the attention from Nintendo alone for selling a Game Boy compatible device because they hate emulation (unless they're profiting from it) but also because Nintendo doesn't want a lucrative second hand market, they would prefer you play games on a Switch and it's successors while keeping them locked behind a paywall so they can generate revenue forever more.

I wish him well but I can foresee the big N paying attention to him with a cease and desist.

I wonder if streaming sites will simply refuse to serve Canadian IP addresses and take Canadian currency until the Government changes the law? I can't see them rolling over and allowing this to go unchallenged.

There's a reason why "primary care giver" is just legalise for "mother".