To me it seems like a push towards the whole "own nothing" idea. Whether it's something like CSAM detection or even mundane SaaS, things are slowly shifting away from the end user having control over their "own" devices.
I'm torn, because on the one hand, pedophiles and child abusers deserve the severest of consequences in my opinion; on the other hand, I also think that people should be able to do and/or say whatever they want so long as its not causing actual harm to another.
Simple solution: Eliminate karma points/reputation points/likes/dislikes, all of it. People are going to find a way to game the system as long as there's a system to game.
Meh, all these meme-posts are trying way too hard to create some sort of in-joke. Not sure why, as the in-"jokes" from elsewhere are generally shitstains on the communities they occur in.
Games... via a video streaming platform? Yeah... that sounds like it's going to be a top-notch, quality experience with no major issues... hopefully I can sync my stadia and track my progress through my google+ account.
Strangely, I consider both events - the submarine and the refugees - to be equally heartbreaking, in the sense that both are pointless losses of life that could have been avoided.
However, I also consider both events to be equally stupid - billionaires being cocky stupid, and the refugees being desperate stupid; the kind of stupid wherein we make bad decisions with likely bad outcomes, on the gamble that it'll work.
Looking at it from a more emotional standpoint, I think I might be biased in that I feel like that there are a lot more important events occurring around us, that effect us in a much larger way, that simply gets swept under the rug by these types of "news" stories.
I'm not lacking sympathy for the kid's loss. Losing a parent for most people is terrible. But I'm not going to feel any more sympathy towards them, than I would you - being a complete stranger to me. Certainly not because "news" tells me to. It would be fair to say that the thoughts and feelings I have towards the negative impact of what it takes to accumulate that sort of wealth override the casual sympathy for the submarine situation.
The refugee situation is a whole 'nother can of worms. But as desperate a move as it may have been for them, I do in fact respect them for taking that risk for what I'll assume to be trying to have a better life. That takes some amount of courage, so as individuals it's mainly sympathy. Long way about it, those in the submarine represent why there's a refugee situation.
As far as the eggplant parmesean goes, while I regret to inform you that it wasn't fresh from a garden, I can make it up to you and vouch that the "heat n eat" in the frozen section at Aldi's is pretty okay.