Because these sites are grifts used to scam people with gambling addiction and launder money for criminals.

Prediction markets? It’s called online gambling.

Is it because they couldn’t fit into planes anymore? (This is a reference to the growing (heh!) obesity crisis in Turkey)

I see your point but I think it’s more like the 1939 “defensive war” against Poland than the 1938 “Anschluss”.

Oh I know. It’s just the latest grift. Just like Fortnite was before regulation.

Big tech will abandon gaming now that they’ve found out about AI. I guess getting children hooked on gambling isn’t as profitable as it used to be.

Website operators don’t have to display cookie banners. They can just not use tracking/ad cookies. Simple af.

GDPR doesn’t annoy anyone. The incompetent developers who made the banners do. There is absolutely no need for them.

Remember when the murderous Chinese empire invaded Tibet? I’m an old fuck who does.

That’s what the thread is about and I specifically brought up the motivation being the same as when joining a religious cult…

The post is incorrect in stating that this never happens. Of course it does. Humans will human.

No I didn’t. I said the motivation might be the same. And in cases like this, it’s not about transitioning, it’s about gaining access to affirmation.

I’m using community in it’s loosest possible definition here.

26th of December in Rönninge.

Satya Nadella is human slop

Microsoft is a criminal organisation. Their employees and shareholders should be shunned and shamed by the public.

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They’re a for-profit corporation. They will support whatever makes them money. There are no good or bad for-profit corporations. They only do exactly what they were designed to do. That being said, their employees and shareholders DO have a choice, and CAN be held responsible.

Yes. Weirdos are extremely upset by this for some reason.

For-profit corporations running critical infrastructure is just a hostage situation.

Fake and not rare