My guess is it will go into Xbox/Gamepass on PC, and in MS games, but not in other launcher ecosystems.

Still, go ahead and start researching. Whether it’s this or something else, something will be the final straw for you in Windows, soon.

…This is exactly what I am talking about.

If EU leftists adopt that way of thinking, the far right will happily sweep up all those disparaged “evil or stupid” voters, with zero shame.

It’s not theoretical. It’salready happening.

This is dismissive.

I know otherwise smart, college or post grad people who voted Trump. I know working professionals, who aren’t religious or anything, who would probably vote for him again over whatever Dem runs. And the left blanket labeling them as evil idiots is exactly what Fox News, WSJ, or their social feeds harp on.

I’m not trying to drag the US into this, I’m just positing that Europe is falling into the same trap. You can dismiss these people, but the far right won’t; they will happily take their vote.

Same thing that happened to the US.

I see a lot of blame on “brainless idiots” or similar labels when discussing this, but I think that’s dismissive of issues many parties seems to be ignoring, or exacerbating, and that the alt-right is pouncing on.

Not everyone who voted Trump is an idiot, and doubling down on that thinking will make the issue worse.

Another is that the far-right parties tend to be “modern” and very social media savvy, whereas establishment centrist parties are out of touch, and campaign in archaic ways. And (from my impression on the outside) the more leftist European parties are prone to disunity and infighting. They don’t benefit from scandal and controversy like the far right does.

…Those “14 year olds” make money with ads, if not by being straight-up product shills. And social media takes most of the cut.

Also, that’s quite different than sustaining a whole journalism business. There is of course social media centric journalism, and Wired does plenty of that too.

It’s not perfect, no, but what are they supposed to do to keep the lights on? Double down on ads giving everyone malware, that everyone should be blocking anyway?

…That being said, we have every right to try and bypass the paywall too, heh.