Good ol’ ASD.

That does make sense, although I’m not sure we can trust it to work like that.

And mass sharing of images/videos which has made it so much easier to connect people, specifically in one case I saw today of someone on Telegram sharing child porn. How do you even put the cat back in the box?

Because you need it to play them on Switch.

But everyone doesn’t, piracy is still rampant.

I mean, PC games are constantly pirated across the world, but Steam has done things right. Switch games somewhat, although the difficulty means it’s not that popular.

Because of physical media.

Sure, but that’s a different issue; I agree with that. Don’t forget that if you even are allowed to ‘buy’ them, they will close the online service for that platform in the future with no guarantee you can use it on another platform.

But you don’t have the sub (cheap when sharing a family pack) so you can’t play the N64 games anyway.

Right, but he sub is shareable and a pretty cheap barrier for entry… and required to play those GameCube games anyway.

So there will not be a way to play it when they eventually turn off their online service for the console. Uh huh. They were what we thought were the last bastions of protecting content/games, now… yeah, okay, they are just shooting themselves in the foot again and again here.

Was it? In Syria it seems pretty open.

Dogs do like butt stuff.

Sigh… and how would you like to quantify that when there are so many factors?

Obstructing traffic is not an effective means of protest. Target actual agents and entities associated with the oil industry, not the victims.

They are effective and bring about awareness among other things.

I am telling you when their trend started. Norway’s consumption has not increased, it is down on 2018, as I said. It had a slight decline in 2023 (the increase between 2020 and 2022 is when people stopped driving during COVID then came back to restart its downward trend).

Japan’s decline since then is commensurate with its population decline.

Actually no, if you know what commensurate means. The population has dropped around 4% since 2008, yet oil consumption has been decreasing since 1996.

Germany is similar in terms of consumption, Sweden likewise.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-consumption-by-country

If that is the only metric you are looking it, kind of. It slumped during COVID and has looked like it’s tailing off somewhat. Without tax breaks, subsidies and support for other forms of transport, say, we will not shake our dependence.

But, we can look at specific countries and see if those things have helped on a national scale, like Norway, for example, which has seen consumption decline since 2018. And Sweden. And Japan. And Germany. And…

Well, there was that one guy.

I can cite many news articles which show that protesting in this way is more effective.

Blocking roads in protest has proven effective at exactly one thing: Increasing the enforcement and penalties for jaywalking.

Well… no.

…but you’re not banned. Are you pre-emptively complaining about something you think will happen? It hasn’t, so, err… okay?