Look this is funny and all, but the title isn’t quite accurate.
“Canceled After No One Wanted to Pay $1000 to Go” would be accurate.
I think the full truth makes a more interesting headline than this partially true headline.

I thought it was this.
Australia wages war on cane toads
Environmentalists have asked Australia’s military to wage war on cane toads, which have spread across the country’s north in near-plague proportions.
Ya. They lost.

The Australian military was also defeated by emus.
The Emu War is a spectacularly, intentionally boring and fully factual bit from a video game called Desert Bus VR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2caKedMbtwc&t=5870s

Its more than an opt in or out problem with LG.
You remember, oh a fukin month ago? LG installs spywear with no prompt when you plug in one of their monitors on a pc. This TV shit is more of the same and certainly more egregious than other brands.

And that’s why I have to neuter any device I buy.
Fuken pain in the ass, but that’s our world.

Wait … are you lamenting the demise of the Micro$oft phone?
Seriously? In public and all? What the hell is wrong with you?
For the record, I DO blame the companies.

This article whitewashed the whole thing and accepted LG’s angle, right up to reprinting their bullshit in full.
Such crap is entirely insufficient for a tech publication, “Tom’s Hardware has not independently verified either the claims made by Gamers Nexus in its documentary or LG’s counterclaims.”

Why? Why did you publish and throw up your hands saying “we know nothing”?
Was there possibly some money involved? Don’t want to piss off your advertisers?
I reviewed this Stephen Warwick’s articles. He’s a corpo shill.
Miserable excuse for journalism.

I’ll accept that. People suck in general, but its the only game in town.
I’m perfectly happy to see the entire dating app thing die under a flood of slop and abuse.

all my furniture except my couches and a few scattered thrift store/alleyway finds came from ikea. this whole idea does not offend me like others have stated.

but fuk creation club.

You’ve missed the big one. Those aren’t people.
They are AI fronts for orgs of various size that will scam you for whatever opportunity they may discover.
You can’t fix that. Try developing something that helps people instead of another platform to use them.
You want to help people meet? Open a bar.

Oh no! Where will I find an AI girlfriend?

Jebus. This sounds like the AI psychosis spiral.
Like, I didn’t think trump was smart enough to use AI. He can’t read.
He must have found one that talks to him. And feeds everything he says to his rusky handlers.

I assume this means that Tata has fallen behind on their bribes. That’s what it usually means when you see the law getting enforced on this scale. Tata is a huge company, so fuk them, but they may have found the ask a bit steep, or even unethical?

To an uninformed outsider just consuming propaganda, this sounds like a nice, clean, and logical escalation of an ongoing enforcement effort.
https://www.kenyanews.go.ke/joho-suspends-tata-chemicals-magadi-mining-operations-over-non-compliance/

“Joho said that despite these engagements, several critical compliance issues remain unresolved, including lack of a clear mineral beneficiation and value addition strategy, outstanding royalty reconciliation and payment obligations, insufficient export reporting and reconciliation, poor implementation of Community Development Agreements (CDA), inadequate employment and skills transfer plan for Kenyan citizens, weak procurement of local goods and services, and environmental compliance shortfalls.”

I definitely see a subtext that someone did not get their bribes. Wikipedia says Joho is a political ‘kingpin’, that he finances the party he’s a member of, and he has been accused of both vote rigging and running drugs. Such men live on bribes. Big fat bribes, not the small stuff.

Welcome to lemmy. It’s not perfect, but its entertaining.