People like that have always existed, and always will. They live a life where whatever they ever wanted is right nearby, and they can’t imagine that the place which is good enough for them isn’t good enough for someone else.
I will say this: don’t let his attitude make you afraid of traveling. I’m always a homebody, but even for me there’s an excitement in being a stranger in a strange land every once in a while. Give it a try.
Yes, Todd, we get it.
You’re the one we shouldn’t trust.
I like coffee, and I avoid over-roasted beans and hate especially bitter coffee.
Over roasted: Burn the fuck out of your low-quality beans so that all flavor nuance is lost and every batch tastes identical.
Too bitter: Over extracted during brewing. It’s a skill issue, and even the darkest roasted beans can be prepared without excessive bitterness.
For me, an over-extracted coffee is never acceptable, but I don’t hate over-roasted beans if I’m at a breakfast diner.
Hard to be a God
Futuristic earth scientists are secretly studying life on a medieval planet, disguised as local nobility. One of these scientists struggles to remain aloof while the king and his minister enact a progrom against those intellectuals who history would otherwise remember as the geniuses of their era.
When a coup against the government brings even more violence and brutality, this scientist is pushed to his limit.
This novel also spawned two pretty good film adaptations.
I skipped the paywall by opening the page in my browser’s article mode. Strips out most CSS and JS popups.
I have a hard time believing every claim in this piece, since the prof makes a claim that the US economy is a ponzi scheme. I think that words matter, and “ponzi scheme” is a very specific thing, which I do no believe accurately describes banking or wall street. I notice that grifters and crypto-bros are quick to describe the traditional economy as a ponzi in order to make their own scam look better in comparison. Example.
That’s not to say that the capitalist economic system is fair, good for the world, or sustainable. Whether this is a mistake or an intentional mischaracterization, it makes me question the conclusions drawn.
I know this comment is a joke, but the CA bill requires age bucketing for to be provided by the OS to “covered stores”. Basically, any source of 3rd party programs.
Since TempleOS (at least, the original one written solely by Terry Davis) has no networking stack, no such “covered store” can exist. I think there’s not even support to load external storage drives, so all programs on the machine are either written by the user or provided first-party by the OS. I think TempleOS would be exempt on those grounds.
Not inherently. Many of them do offer favorable visa terms (easier work requirements, longer stays, etc).
A UK national can live in Gibraltar, but that’s because it’s UK territory.
I could get behind this if there was any actual decoration or community-oriented furniture in the hallway.
Maybe some fake plants, a bench/sofa, vending machines, etc. Any kind of reason to spend time in the hallway.
Ever used org-roam? It’s org-mode plus obsidian features. Absolutely love it.
You make a good point, and one that I didn’t necessarily consider.
Maybe it’s naïveté, but I do still imagine this case could be hypothetically won without trampling section 230. Mostly because we have actual evidence that Meta designs their products to be harmful: Whistleblower leaks and books hace clearly demonstrated that management works to juice profits at the cost of users. Eg: Collecting data about users with body-image issues and selling it to beauty advertisers. When you can point to actual emails between decision-makers saying “Ignore this problem, it makes too much money for us to solve”, I’d hope the case would revolve around not letting people prioritize shitty business decisions at the cost of people. Then theoretically, as long as you don’t have a bunch of lemmy mods coordinating similar practices, the case wouldn’t apply to them.
Hmm, now that I type it out, that’s definitely a naïve take. I don’t expect to see actual justice against corporations in the USA any time soon.
Seems like the case is about inherently addictive features of the website, and not about hosted content.
the lawsuit claims that this was done through deliberate design choices made by companies that sought to make their platforms more addictive to children to boost profits. This argument, if successful, could sidestep the companies’ First Amendment shield and Section 230
Your profile looks fine to me. Viewed from a web client.
Wizards 1977
I love the cheap rotoscoped WW2 footage. I love the animation (and the backgrounds!). I like the plot, and I disagree with people who think it’s dumb that Blackwolf’s secret weapon for organizing the armies of evil is literal fascist propaganda. I love the scene where all the fairy armies get wrecked in trench warfare.
I also love the ending:
Instead of getting into a big magical fight with Blackheart, Avatar just fucking shoots him before he’s ready.
Every year on our christmas tree:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the 55-year-old father of four was attempting suicide and the staff tried to save him.
…save him…
for themselves
Prerequisites
Those look like build prerequisites. Many decomp projects do not need original game assets at build time, just runtime.
and after that…
cdpath and diskpath registry keys […] point to the correct location for the asset files
I read this as another implication that original game files are required. Otherwise, why would you need a registry key telling the new game engine where to look for assets? The /assets file in the git repo contains only 3 pngs of icon images. There’s no way they’ve secretly bundled a whole game’s worth of models and textures in the codebase.
Implication from the readme is that the lego island decomp does indeed need original assets:
The simplest way to use the recompiled binaries is to swap the original executables (ISLE.EXE, LEGO1.DLL, and CONFIG.EXE) in LEGO Island’s installation directory for the ones that you’ve built from this source code.
In the US it’s up to individual states to set laws that require breaks.
Not the person you’re talking to, but it seems like a stretch that some little nightclub will want to build and maintain their own smart contract infrastructure. It’s not just issuing the tickets, it’s also building and distributing the tools to quickly validate the hundreds/thousands of attendees every night.
For example, it’s not enough just to validate that everyone at the gate has an NFT. I could enter the venue with a valid token, and then transfer it to my friend still outside once I’m through the door. So now the bouncer needs to track what tickets have already been scanned, and you probably want it to update off-chain (faster and no gas fees).
Not that I can pretend to know what already goes in to a venue supporting TicketMaster, but I figure there’s got to be a reason why these middlemen were wanted in the first place. That reason is probably about venues wanting to do music and not tech support.