What? You thought this conflict was actually real?

It would seem that we shall be requiring you peasants to give up another 10% of your daily carbon footprint to meet the demands of our new machine overlord.

Because you keep making salacious claims that can't be properly sourced instead of focusing on provable arguments.

Provoking others to consider that exact issue is why I asked the question. :)

So why is it that everyone pushing for 'reduced living standards' is also always shilling some new technologies to solve that problem?

Three guesses on why they don't track them, and if you invoke any events from the past 3 years you win a ban.

You're not kidding. All social media right now is plagued by extremists who only seem to know how to fight. Even when they lack any real purpose for it they go looking for one.

Bring back support for Windows 7 and Windows 10 will die overnight.

Can we stop trying to pretend that the Internet is supposed to be some sort of bastion of truth so we can actually use it again, instead of watching corporation after corporation completely fail to grasp the basic nature of the technology?

Money is what we all agree represents value

Well, that's what it's supposed to be, but in today's digital world it is increasingly becoming only what a small handful of people agree represents value.

I think they are just bad at their jobs.

There are a huge number of aspired investigative journalists who weren't good enough, and ended up writing niche interest pieces for hobbyist publications they don't actually care much about. This was the reason there was such a commotion over game's journalism around 2015, but the same problems exist elsewhere too.