It’s more that the years of “hyper growth” has ended.

I managed to memorize it for a test in networking class. The teacher was surprised someone actually managed to get it right.

The Bush administration is not the same as the Trump administration. When people voted for Trump they didn’t vote for the Republican Party. They voted for Trump.

Trump was for example incredibly vocal about reducing the support to NATO. Of course the Russians would do anything to make those ideas happen.

No one uses Gimp for professional use. Gimp is not a full replacement of what Photoshop does.

Apparently it’s worth $20/month.

Adobe did it because everybody and their grandmother just pirated Photoshop instead of paying that huge one time fee (licenses costed around $900 not counting inflation). It wasn’t until they went with the subscription model when people actually started to pay for Photoshop.

The less we need of it, the better either way.

Let’s hope it’s about as successful as Facebook’s Libre/Diem

I’m going to use this excuse from now on

WebX: return of ActiveX

Assassins will be assigned to the assassins assigned to the assassins!

At the time it was their lowest selling home console ever. Only Wii U has done worse since. Meanwhile PlayStation 2 is the highest selling console of all time - even to this day. The disappointing figures of GameCube led Nintendo to find their own niche with Wii.

GameCube is still my favorite game console of all time.

Programmers are hyped about Rust. It’s a programming language that has a legitimate chance to replace C and C++ for performance critical applications. So any new project in Rust increases the possibility of a future where C and C++ are programming languages of the past.

Socialist ideas is to move away from the idea of private ownership. Everything is owned by the “people” in collective (which in practice often means the state). You don’t own your cellphone, your computer or your shoes. They’re all provided to you by the “people” (the state).

The roads in your example are paved by private companies in a competitive market (often funded by tax money). They may have been selected by the state to do the work at an agreed price. Next time some other private company might do the work because they compete with even better prices. This process is not socialistic.

I like some of the goals of it (like evening out the economical inequalities), but I don’t think socialism is the right way to do it. Democratic welfare state systems found in Western European countries are much better solutions (and hasn’t turned into authoritarian tyrannies).

UBI might also be a good option, but currently there have been no large scale implementation of it yet.

We’re long past the hunter-gatherer reality with a world population of 20,000, which your post concerns.

Even ants and bees falls into the trap of having one tyrannical leader all the workers are serving.

Capitalism takes into account for basic facts like human nature.

Because I can get my fucking point across without them

In that case Apple’s board of directors is about as diverse as Microsoft and Google.