As you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

I agree, that’s the genuine beauty of it, their layered performance. We could hear their emotions as much as we could hear them hiding their emotions. Genius

Homeworld - Few lines. All brilliant. " Detecting no communication from anywhere in the system, not even beacons." - “We are being overwhelmed!”

Ixion - So many lines that would make no sense if they weren’t being delivered with conviction and sincerity.

Would that be everything?

Satisfaction and excitement are both valid reactions to seeing boobs

Well, just one boob in this photo, apparently

I bet you those spiders are coming here illegally on small web.

If you’ve got a black cat, they’ve got a blacker cat?

If you’ve been to Tenerife they’ve been to Elevenerife?

I call that “one-up-manship”

The big ones I called…

When facebook first took off, I said “they’re going to normalise ending privacy with this aren’t they?”

When I saw the images of the planes hitting the twin towers I said “well, ****, there goes our civil liberties”

Sometimes I sound like a conspiracy theorist, I promise I’m really not!

Is that evidence of your point of a creeping line of illegality?

The classic slippery slope, thin end of the wedge argument.

A reasonable position, you’re gonna need some evidence of intention or history to give it some heft though.

Anything claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

That’s why they need to change the law in order to ban it. Duh

I live without adverts in my life.

I have no subscription services.

When a service stops being useful I switch.

Aside from my steam library, I own everything I own. I don’t find this difficult. I’m not missing out, I enjoy films, TV, games, friends, work and life generally.

My personal choices have made a massive difference to my experiences, if I compare them to the ones I see people talking about on Lemmy.

Well I wouldn’t sue them myself.

Ibwas talking about the general link between suits and stock prices. Which I don’t think is especially relevant in this case for the reasons you’re talking about, and others

Might not be why you do it.

Certainly suits can and do effect stock prices, based on investors perception of future gains. Both the direct cost of losing a suit (if it’s big enough) and the indirect cost of losing business as a result, can cause this.

I really don’t see either of those scenarios happening here. The investors know there’s a monopoly situation and nothing will change until that changes

Whatever kind of crazy talk it is, I bet a therapist can do even better crazy talk

Well, there’s a philosophical point that’s worthy of exploring.

Is human activity, including manipulation, a result of nature or in conflict with it?

Ever seen Orcas wearing salmon hats?

Hierarchical systems are perfectly normal in social systems. Not in the rigid way your manosphere nutters use it, but it’s still a thing!

Messing at the edges of the broken system is a good thing. Not as good as fixing things properly. Still a good thing.

I believe they have already done that for the mayors.