What wording would you have them use?

Is there a name for the next step beyond perverse incentives?

Because that’s where we are now.

Dunno. My Corolla doesn’t have any features locked out that I am aware of. It certainly hasn’t tried to upsell me any “upgrades”.

If my daughter wants more Lego, I’ll just buy it second hand

That’s where most of the sets my kids had came from.

It’s a durable product that is easy to clean. Buying used is very low risk.

The wizard lego is very disappointing, and goes completely against their other inclusive language.

To be fair, they started making those sets long before anyone knew the author was a TERF.

You may think it’s crazy talk, but the concept has already been patented.

The way they want it to operate is not monitoring them, presumably.

Or pushing ads on the device idle screen, or inserted into other things you are trying to watch. (pre-rolls on HDMI sources…)

Is there a ful list anywhere of brands and models that lock non-network features behind a network connection requirement?

I’ve heard people complaining about some that don’t let you select HDMI input without first connecting to the internet and “activating” the TV, but the model is usually not specified in those complaints.

Now we just need a way to do that

I have some ideas.

that isn’t vigilante violence.

Oh. Nevermind…

Growing up on a farm we killed, plucked and processed a few hundred chickens each year. Kept us and several families in town fed with good quality meat over the winter.

It’s not a bad thing to be that close to your own food production.

I find that the the same authoritarian, isolationist, and anti-intellectual mind-viruses that permeate through society in the United States (especially in rural communities) have a beachhead here in Western Europe

America’s worst export.

Nobody else appointed the US as “world police”.

It’s a role that they gleefully took on so they could go around telling others what to do.

The “libs” get angry.

Rolling your eyes and muttering “what a fucking idiot” isn’t the same as getting angry.

He’s not going to live forever

And, I would assume, if anyone had done that training it would be FBI agents.

As if anyone trusted Patel anyway.

Who said that?

The strawman.

That must have been some special magic booze to get the old man so drunk he couldn’t recognize that he was fucking his own daughters, yet leave him capable of getting it up to do the deed…

Also the lack of salt pillars

The US has a freebie wildcard

It’s called the “who’s gonna stop me” card.

Bullies like to play that one as often as possible.