In today’s episode of “The rich and powerful do whatever the fuck they want with no consequences”…

Video games with apparently sentient NPCs.

Custom ARM SoCs from AMD and Nvidia for laptops, tablets and handheld consoles, running customized Linux to avoid Microsoft’s fees.

YouTube switches to unskipable server-side ads injection directly into the original video stream, rendering adblockers ineffective. Others soon follow.

Mainstream media starts releasing news in TikTok style videos where the bottom half of the screen plays random Minecraft / satisfying to watch slop.

End to end encrypted communication is quietly outlawed following some terrorist attack, using national security fearmongering. You’ve got nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.

China inevitably invades Taiwan, TSMC burns their fabs down to protect their IP. Samsung and Intel fabs become the most cutting edge process nodes on next cycle, China catches up, profits go up all around.

Google kills Search and now Gemini is their only search engine. Others soon follow.

On the bright side you might be able to buy groceries with robux and vbucks soon

That we should have kept the old road to India instead of listening to Christopher Colombus and his whack ideas?

BackTrack 5 because I was too poor to pay for my own Wi-Fi back then, so I had to become creative heheh

Greece did something similar a few years ago.

The Golden Dawn far right wing party was declared a criminal organization (after some violence that lead to a few stabbings and at least one death) and their leaders were thrown in jail.

From the ashes of Golden Dawn and a few other populist/Christian conservative/nationalist parties rose a few new ones, with more careful rhetoric and open support from the now jailed golden dawn leaders and high ranking church ministers.

They are collectively holding 26 of the 300 seats in the parliament and are expected to get better results on the next election cycle.

You can ban them all you want, they can still reform into a “we are not far right, wink wink” party after the ban itself verifies their far right status and rise to power all the same.

They’ll probably do something more stupid than that, like replacing him with one of his sons with the promise that daddy Trump will keep running everything regardless

This year’s Easter is brought to you by Carl’s Jr.