I'd say it's certainly possible for the economics and business strategy to shift in a manner where consumers get a much worse deal like this indefinitely. But it's really haad to say if it's actually going to play out that way or we experience a return to the previous equilibrium

there's a utility named rename that will rename based on regular expressions. I think all the things you listed can be done by making a suitable regexp for each case

As far as I can tell the AI thing is an excuse; the jobs are really being cut because we're reaping a harvest of policy so bad it's indistinguishable from sabotage, and the AI thing is being used to ease the fall without spooking investors straight into a stock market crash

Wow, the precision with which this struck me is concerning. I'm really, incredibly autistic at all times aren't I?

there's documentary evidence that human food causes violent vomiting in vampires! (what we do in the shadows)

if you're so generous Google why have you moved to stand between me and my hardware?

If a character has 121hp or more they're able to jump from a space station onto earth with like a super hero landing??

Not defending our lives is the losingest strategy of them all

I'm not sure who she's referring to when she says our there but whoever it is would be insane to invite her in with that take

wow this is really good writing, answering such a complex question so thoroughly

The people who actually defeated fascism last time would be rolling in their graves if they could hear that assessment

We as a society should be rethinking the term "security", if it's come to mean submitting to being jerked around however best suits some private company's interests instead of our own. If there's a central platform for its security benefit it should be democratically controlled instead of controlled by what are effectively feudal lords, or perhaps even an occupying force