I feel this. It is satisfying, but it's not really productive.

Well they do charge particularly hard for SSDs as well. They've found a way to eat the cake twice.

Companies primarily make decisions to maximise the profitability of someone and it's never the consumer.

I think the spines are part of the background, a bush or a tree or something. Also saw an elephant. Elephant standing in front of a bush.

Likely born from frustration. It sucks knowing that the future you’re working towards is likely one you’ll never get to experience.

A small step in the right direction is still a step.

Let’s remember that the rich will have ways of making this happen even without it being legal. You don’t think that the criminalisation of abortion in various U.S. states actually affects the rich, right?

Oh, fuck off with that. We're in the middle of a climate catastrophe the scale of which we don't even fully comprehend yet. I can understand a wish for more transparency in how the systems work, but if you're not willing to pull your weight and put your money where your mouth is, you don't get to complain. How is it in any way strange that China would be looking to boost the Chinese market? Every other market does exactly this.

Musk reposted a chart that claims Europe is suffering from a “fertility crisis,” saying “civilization may end with a bang or with a whimper (in adult diapers).”

Right. Europe. Civilisation. Coming from a bigoted, lying, racist, billionaire that's hardly surprising.

Further, so what?

Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h

Yikes. That sounds bad.

I'm a SysOps engineer at a fairly large online casino.

Okay all my sympathy is gone. Online casinos deserve to die.

That said, my feelings towards economic vampires aside, the way the events unfolded is concerning to say the least. Cloudflare has been racking up evil-corp points quite rapidly in recent months.