They do listen to some extent. Not always, obviously, but saying protests are basically useless is just wrong. The CPE was scrapped after protests in 2006, the écotaxe was abandoned after the Bonnets Rouges protests, the fuel tax increase was cancelled after the Yellow Vests, and the government backed down on several measures after the 2024 farmers’ protests. You can argue protests do not always succeed, but pretending they achieve nothing just ignores what actually happened.

Having the choice to pay 100eu or 87eu for something, i doubt a lot of people would say it is the same thing.

1 dollar equals 87 euro cents. How is that ridiculously close?

Just a question, but how easy is it nowadays to bypass Denuvo using LLM?

I think it is mainly the fact that we have been shouting this from the rooftops for years, and all we got was ridicule.

And now, suddenly, when they realise they are also fucked, we are expected to be the bigger person.

These are the same people who always had a “what about…” ready. The same people who never wanted to sacrifice anything or make hard choices. No, they needed the bigger car, the cheap flights, the endless convenience, and they laughed while others tried to go net zero.

“It is pointless anyway, because big industry are the real polluters,” they said, as if that excused doing absolutely nothing.

I do not fear what is coming for me. I fear what is coming for my children because of years of selfish, egocentric people refusing to think about what they were doing to everything around them.

So yes, I understand the point about not making it scarier for people to change their worldview. But I am not going to pretend it does not matter how much damage was done while they mocked the people who saw it coming.