I use Photopea, it’s a website so no download and does 99% of what Photoshop and GIMP can do.

Made by a single Ukrainian developer, and free (with some ads on the side while you’re using it)

Counter point, society wouldn’t exist if there weren’t reproductive pressures

Luckily you get to choose whatever you want in this case, but as you’ve found out there are annoying consequences for your choice.

It literally says you’ll be notified, and can opt out.

I don’t disagree.

Unsarcastically, yes.

Capitalism can be great, if given the correct regulations to improve quality of life for everyone.

I will say however, that not all industries should be handled by capitalism, there are a few big ones where market competition simply doesn’t work due to inherent physical flaws (like for example needing to run five sets of water pipes to your house if you wanted to have choice among water providers)

Yea, was more of a general take. Thanks.

A lot of people misunderstand economic systems by anthropomorphizing (it means to give them human characteristics) them, giving them the illusion of thought or feeling.

Capitalism doesn’t care at all about humans, it’s not human, it doesn’t think, it doesn’t feel. It has no concept of right or wrong.

Capitalism says “what is most profitable”, do that. If killing someone to make money is the most profitable, it’s supposed to go ahead and do it, and it absolutely DOES already do this on a daily basis.

Now clearly, that’s going to give us some really fucking bad outcomes from a human perspective. So government regulation is how we attempt to prevent corporations from doing these bad things.

If we tell a company: “if you kill people it will cost $X” and $X would reduce their profit below “most profitable” they will stop doing it.

If we want to fix the bad stuff corporations are doing, simply put a larger cost on those things. It’s that simple. Pollution, Safety, Health, whatever… price the negative externalities (economic speak for bad things humans don’t want) properly and the market will sort itself out.

Some idiot said it was “almost required”

And a bunch of people piled on him for being ridiculous.

Your comment makes it sound like you can’t give it up because your kids use it too much. I didn’t validate anything.

What a first world take on this, it’s not a requirement at all. Parent your fucking children. My kids watch D+ maybe once or twice a month, my wife and I honestly watch it more frequently than they do because they have shows we like. We could drop it tomorrow if our budget needed to be trimmed.

Screen manufacturers just did a similar thing with the jump from 1080p to 4k

The 1080 part of the original number referred to the number of pixels from top to bottom, 4k refers to left to right. 4k is actually only 2160 from top to bottom though (at the same aspect ratio).

So they quadrupled the number when it should have only doubled, and it was entirely a marketing thing.

Except it isn’t a piece of shit. It does what it says it does on the box. The fact that people expect it to do far more than that is their fault, not the fault of the product.

It’s frequently the best tool for the job BECAUSE they already have it. If you need another tool, with another login, with more licensing costs, and more training time, and more support, it’s often a worse option even if it has more features.

If they’re trying to spin up an intranet and share some files within the organization, it’s absolutely amazing. If they want a simple database containing active work items for a small team to process, it can do that too. If they want a central place to see who’s currently on vacation… SharePoint’s got you covered.

If you’re trying to use it as a ERP system, it ain’t going to work. If they want a full fledged CRM, also a bad idea.

SharePoint can meet at least 80% of the requirements for most office business processes involving files, pages, or single database tables, and it can do it for 20% of the cost/effort of dedicated software. If you want all the bells and whistles, that ain’t going to cut it though.

I think a lot of that is a lack of knowledge around it’s capabilities, it’s not as flexible as other systems, but at the same time it’s absolutely amazing at doing certain things really fast and easily. I have thousands of people using systems I’ve built in SharePoint and more than half of them don’t even know it’s SharePoint. They just pop in, use it, and get out.

I make a ton of money using SharePoint, why would I not love it?

I love SharePoint :)

Keep it simple and it’s a wonderful platform. Too many people overcomplicate things and cause themselves their own headaches.

Maybe, just maybe, those are bad ideas. Which is why Israel has chosen it’s current tactics.

Sending in troops to clear individual buildings is dangerous as fuck, go ask the Americans about what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan when they tried that. Why sacrifice Israeli lives to preserve Palestinians who are supporting Hamas by allowing them to be in their living spaces?

Ground penetrating radar? Are you fucking high? The Israelis and Egyptians a lot better tech than that and it still isn’t stopping them. There are hundreds or thousands of these tunnels, with new ones constantly being constructed. The US tries this too, they’ve found hundreds and there are still plenty they haven’t found.

Israel literally spent billions of dollars building a wall, and even a missile defence system… How much more defensive do you want Israel to be before they get tired of getting punched and retaliate?

Palestinians got around them anyways and killed almost a thousand Israeli civilians.

Would you let you neighbor come over to your house every day and punch you without retaliation despite you installing a fence and an alarm system?

Hamas is hiding in the same buildings as civilians and using them as human shields, it’s literally guerilla warfare 101. They are winning the propaganda war because of this, and they did it very intentionally.

The west is going to keep supporting Israel, and it has nothing to do with goodwill. Governments understand this isn’t a civil war, this isn’t even about Palestinians, it’s part of a larger geopolitical battle between the west on one side, and Iran and other middle eastern nations on the other.

Yea it sucks that Palestinians are caught in the crossfire, but this could end very quickly if the supply of weapons being smuggled to Palestinians was cut off. Instead, Iran and others will keep building tunnels from Egypt and smuggling rockets and ammo in for them to keep the fighting going.

You’re laboring under a misunderstanding.

I don’t think Palestinians are going to strike back and hurt Israel. I think Iran will do it, because Iran is using Palestine as a proxy to conduct a larger war against Israel.

The rise of the Nazis before WW2 was definitely partly caused by the imposition of the allies after WW1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_I

Of course the allies don’t call it genocide, the winners of a conflict rarely refer to themselves in a poor light. They write the history books after all. They still killed about 8% of the total German population during WW2.

Almost 50% of German casualties during WW2 were civilians…

Your arguments don’t even hold water against reality. How about you try again.