Yeh, its ironic when artists get popular for getting involved in political movements that politicians refuse to get involved in. If ever there was need for more evidence that they do not represent their constituents, this is another piece.

They are already not worth your money or trust.

It’ll be interesting to see if Australia lets apple make their own rules for how exactly they comply, like they did in the EU. If they do, this isn’t really a huge win.

You’re technically correct, but I still disagree with you on this. My reasoning is that I think the real story here is that meta has wormed its way out of being punished adequately, again.

No, I mean more like “Meta to pay just 10% of original fine” - So people get an idea of how their judiciary system really works.

the state was awarded $219.5 billion, but the penalty was ultimately reduced to $25 billion.

would have been a better headline, tbh

I think I saw someone post Assmangold raging about this, too. Awful stuff.

You found the arch nemesis

I think this weird anti-self-checkout crowd is just young people who don’t remember the times before self-checkouts.

What crowd? As far as I can see, the article is talking about retailers who want to do this, not customers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLqrMljdfU - Yes, this is uplifting news for all but the terminally car-brained.

Even if that were true, it would still be better than cars taking all the space.

You would do too, if it happened to you

Is the joke here that you did not cry where the packet instructed you to cry?