It’s a bit flexible nowadays because a lot of cars will let you leave the a/c on while you walk away with the keys.

Funny fact: google’s newest feature is also its best, but it’s kinda hidden and might not be available everywhere - it’s “web search”, which cuts out all the awful bullshit

I lived in Japan when streaming was becoming a thing. Everything was region blocked, and DVDs were (and still are) horrendously overpriced for what you get.

I’m sure all of those programs are great, but in the modern world I can’t think of any reason why I wouldn’t ever just use VLC.

We’re leftists and our site culture is pretty aggressive. Liberals are predisposed not to like us because of the first one, and we’re especially prone to arguing with them in the comments of their instances because of the second. This means we’re more well known and more disliked than we would be if we stayed in our corner.

wow. Imagine burning out your expensive GPU for a fortnite skin.

Left that unchecked, I’ve got 16gb ram so I don’t think that was the issue

This is true of the consumer market, but the OP asked about governments, and 90% of government computers in China run Kylin or NeoKylin, with plans to consolidate the two into a single os. This follows the overall trend of China’s tech sector seeking to replace imports (and copied versions of foreign tech) with fully domestic alternatives.

avoid naming a 36 year old man

That’s one of the good parts of the system. The accused deserve privacy.

This punishment is way out of line. Seriously the article doesn’t have anything legitimate to compare it to, so it references people who committed burglary as the most similar examples it can come up with - this guy used a hex editor on his own computer and charged for the service. Fuck this law, fuck Japan’s one party capitalist state, and fuck Nintendo for good measure.

The thing is that Rowling hadn’t really thought it through yet. Having the hero save a slave is pretty clearly heroic and good, and it’s a nice way to wrap up the Dobby story arc, but then the fans were all like “wait WHAT!? there’s slaves under Hogwarts!?” and she was forced to think it through, and it turns out JK’s pretty awful so the result of her thinking it through was to make it worse.

I do wonder how many people got hoodwinked by the film and then went to read the book only to be hit with an entire textbook of lectures from a libertarian.

Ready Player One I guess. There’s a big difference between seeing a fuckload of pop culture artifacts on screen and reading multiple pages of somebody rattling off their knowledge about them. The worst part is that RP1 doesn’t even really engage with the culture it utilizes in any kind of interesting way, it’s all just surface level references that you’d learn from reading Reddit comment sections where people quote memes at each other. The movie on the other hand kind of makes it work because the pop culture artifacts aren’t dwelled on, they’re used more like an aesthetic choice, while the main focus of the movie is on its paint-by-numbers plot.

edited out of the episode and then the user could also download said episode where ads are cut out of the final audio file

This is your problem, because you’re redistributing someone else’s work with the ads cut out, which isn’t sufficiently transformative to qualify for fair use. Sponsorblock is allowed because it doesn’t actually interfere with the video stream, it just tells your computer when to skip ahead using YouTube’s already-existing playback features - your app should work the same way, integrating into an existing podcast platform and skipping forward based on crowdsourced timestamps, then the only thing you’re providing are the timestamps, which don’t violate copyright.

I can’t recognize tanks and I say this is a funny joke.

Death to Israel, from the river to the sea Palestine will be free.

I guess it’s highly regional. My whole adult life I’ve basically been getting forced further and further inland by my rent rising faster than my pay, but this is in California.

I mean you also can’t escape the abysmal state of political education in this country. My high school government class was mandatory and basically wall to wall propaganda - and then when I took polysci in college I was literally taught “socialism is when the government does stuff”. Most people who don’t have the urge to keep digging and learning about politics are going to end their education about it somewhere between those two classes, having learned nothing.

I mean just look at China. They teach Marxism to everyone and embed Communist Party cadres in every company and they’re eating the first world’s lunch as a result.