There was a lot of lazy copies with flash games too. And that’s not unique for indie games or even video games. Every form of media has people copying what’s already successful

I’m willing to bet a decent chunk of this is getting spurred on by Microsoft and Sony in the background to take down Valve before they can help get Linux in a position where it can overthrow both Windows and Playstation for gaming.

Epic’s probably playing a part too, since Time Swiney is a petty bitch

Once I turned 16, I would have a beer with my parents once or twice a month. Despite being in the US, in my state it’s legal for parents to give their kids alcohol, so it was no big deal.

Personally, I think it can be a fairly healthy introduction to alcohol, so long as the parents aren’t just giving their kids a 30-pack and letting them loose.

Never bothered with weed, I was never (and still not) interested

I give it about 3 weeks until they put a different DRM in it

I would totally use a search engine called dogdog

He got it back. He even got a girlfriend out of it

I don’t see how having a motor to help you out and spending a few grand on a carbon fiber frame are much different.

Some people cycle as a sport, and races don’t let you have e-bikes. Plus, putting in all the work to climb a hill under your own power and getting to ride down is rewarding. Sure, getting a carbon fiber bike makes the work a bit lighter, but you’re still the one putting in all the work, which isn’t the case with e-bikes.

While the people in your example are failing to understand that people habe different motives for cycling, you’re doing the exact same thing here.

I could say the same to you. You’re the one who sent a link without checking if it was relevant to the conversation.

Moat people would accept that they made a faux pas and quietly leave the thread. Instead, you decided to get defensive and snarky about it. Grow up.

I had looked to possible anonymous payment methods for Proton and found nothing before.

I asked because you were making a claim against what I had found. Not my fault you made a false claim without proof

I don’t see any anonymous payment methods on this page.

Tuta has a 3rd party provider that you can send cash or Monero to and get a gift card to pay for your account.

Mullvad will directly take cash and Monero.

I don’t see anything suggesting that Proton does anything similar

And pumpkin, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini,…

Because of this comment

LLMs are a technological dead end and will never be the path towards AGI. The AI bubble is fuelled exclusively by overly wealthy gambling addicts like Sam Altman.

You claim the “AI bro” accusation is the loss of logic. Go look at the fucking market right now, it’s completely irrational. It’s the AI investors that have killed any logic going on.

The AI bros just continually ignore this because they’re idiots. If you’re going to back them up you’re just as much of a dumbfuck as them

Where I live, in December it’s dark when I go to work and dark when I get out. That’s just how it is, so who cares?

Meanwhile in June I can’t get to sleep due to they sky still being bright and blocking melatonin production until about 11pm. If we got rid of DST it’d get dark at 10pm.

And I don’t care if sunrise would end up 4:30am. It’s easy to set up blackout curtains in the bedroom to stay asleep.

Yep. A lot easier to have blackout curtain in just your bedroom to stay asleep than it is to have them all over your house to build up melatonin in the evenings during summer

Who fucking cares? Get blackout curtains if that matters.

I personally have the opposite problem during DST. Because night doesn’t start until 11pm or later where I live from DST, I can’t fall asleep until 12am or later. This is because light blocks the production of melatonin in the body. To fix the problem, I would have to set up blackout curtains all through my house (instead of just my bedroom) and close them all at 9pm just so I can go to bed at 10pm.

Also, removing DST gets rid of the stupid time change without increasing the risk of kids getting run over while walking to school, which is what we’d get if DST was year round.

There kinda is. Stores get more customers when there’s daylight in the evenings, specifically when most people are off work. So they tend to like daylight savings time because it maximizes that time window. These stores tend to lobby against bills for removing DST to keep their sales and profits high

Congress once voted to end it, the backlash from constituents businesses was severe and they could not reimplement it fast enough.

Ftfy. Fuck those greedy pricks

People in CA and CO: this shit is why people hate your states. Get better politicians ffs.

the haute bourgeoisie. The 1% of the 1%.

The painful irony being that the bourgeoisie were still below the nobles