Divine right of kings lasted for a long long long time, and caused the deaths of untold millions

Nothing is permanent. China started using untold amounts of cfls again and polar ice melts as well as human mining have released massive amounts of ozone destructive methane. There was good evidence of the damage slowing and reversing for a time, but we just kind of stopped caring around the time we had that massive global "climate change isn't real" psy-op.

Due to the uniquely fucked up way music licensing works, it's likely they license the lyrics through a separate company than the music and probably don't even directly license it themselves (Tidal for example uses Musicmatch's lyric library and api). There's a cost associated with this that is likely outside their control. It's shitty, but it is plalusibly reasonable they implemented this as a cost savings measure.

Capitalism has scribbled right over the "social good" bits of that. We can pretty much single handedly thank Disney and lobbying.

Physical games are a lie. What you want is drm free digital games! Best of all worlds.

I've literally met people in this situation in real life. I know it's the internet and everything here is basically a lie, but what here specifically makes it so unbelievable to you? Because I can assure you from personal life experience that it's at least a plausible reality.

Half the tool chains

If only we empowered our citizens instead of disparaging and monitizing them in an effort to build more yachts.

They understand consent just fine, it's just that it's well within their best interests to pretend they do not until the user base is motivated to manifest financial or legal reprocussions. Years of Facebook abuse has shown that anything levied will be "cost of doing business" at best though.

OP, just change your encryption key to whatever you have your password as and set your login to auto login. This will give you the experience you desire as it'll decrypt the disk with your password and log you in automatically once it's decrypted, but if you lock the system (close the lid. Screen lock. Etc) you'll still get a login screen as normal. (Just keep in mind they're technically two separate passwords and will unfortunately need to be changed separately if you do change your password).

Just the idea that you can force yourself onto another countries road and tell them you don't need a license/etc is so narcissistic it's crazy lol.

You're the one with exorbitant usb needs. That means you'll be the one who expansions are made for. I don't have the stats in front of me, but I'd wager the vast vast majority of pc users don't use beyond 4.