I imagine he’s also made a private donation and isn’t talking about it. He tends to do that.

That’s Hasbulla and it’s a real picture. He’s 21, he has a growth hormone deficiency.

There’s a book called Recipes For Disaster by Crimethinc, which is an actual Anarchist Cookbook, has less bombs and stuff, but there’s a lot of neat stuff that will actually work.

Keep in mind having a ton of extensions can be a security issue. Not sure about the ones you have in particular, but some grammar and coupon ones can be sketch. AI extensions especially so.

Fair enough

You’re not wrong. There’s serious issues with the gambling industry that need to be dealt with, as well as outside social problems driving people to it.

That doesn’t mean the whole concept of a lottery needs to be thrown out, or that anyone who participates is an idiot.

For real. I buy a ticket occasionally just because it’s fun to think about what I’d do with the money for the few days before the draw. Worth the $2 in entertainment value. I’ll occasionally win $10 or something, which is a bonus. I fail to see the issue with people spending an inconsequential amount of money for funsies.

It’s the people who spend hundreds on lottery tickets that are the problem. Even then, people with gambling problems aren’t idiots, they’re desperate people who are being taken advantage of by the gaming industry.

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That’s not how our parliament works. The amount of people calling for an end to the speaker’s independence is concerning.

The speaker’s job is to uphold decorum of parliament. This one spectacularly failed to do that, and resigned as he should. That doesn’t mean we should make it a partisan position.

I agree with you that informed risks can be reasonable, I don’t leave the house with a helmet. I just don’t think it was clear enough from your original post that doing that is risky.

I’m a food service manager, and I have to train people all the time that “looks fine” does not mean “is fine”. There’s food I 100% would never serve at work but would eat myself. I feel like the distinction between what’s foodsafe and what you personally feel comfortable with needs to be stressed.

This is just not true. From a food safety perspective, if there’s mould and it’s a soft food, it’s contaminated. You can absolutely get sick from foods without visible signs of spoilage (not to mention there is a visible sign, mould, but we’re ignoring that.)

That said, I will sometimes take the risk by cutting off the mould. I would never serve it to someone else without letting them know the risks. If you do this you need to understand it’s a gamble.

That’s a bit low. 5 million is low enough that it could still be made through the fruits of their own labour if they’re in a high paying industry. Would probably have to be $50M+ before you get exclusively the capitalist class.

The Air Force will never use the term UFO anymore, because that term has become synonymous with aliens in popular culture. This is why they use UAP. The definition has shifted in the past 50 years.

Its not so much a mass media problem when there’s nutjobs testifying under oath that the government has alien corpses. At that point they’re just reporting on it.

That’s a bit pedantic. The term is commonly understood to be aliens, and modern usage is pretty much always aliens. UAP is used instead for the more literal meaning.

I don’t think it’s a generational thing, just preference. I’m also old enough to have grown up with potato graphics, and after the Xbox 360 era, I stopped caring about graphics much, I just like solid gameplay. Different strokes for different folks.

FWIW Baldur’s Gate III is a very pretty game, despite the overhead camera.

What settings are y’all using? I have everything mostly on low and getting a decent framerate, but it looks like ass.

I’d be happy figuring out how to make hair not look terrible.

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I dunno dude, your average uploader might not be making a ton off AdSense, but the large creators that bring in the majority of users are making bank. The sponsers and Patreons are there to diversify income streams, as Google is notororiously prone to mashing the demonetization button. There are billions of dollars flowing through YouTube, and I don’t think that a decentralized platform running on volunteers and donations is going to be able to compete with that.

Overall I think you’re being unrealistic with the Fediverses place in social media, and overly optimistic about the future of it. I doubt the platform will ever have true mass appeal, which is fine.

Not to mention monetization. A big reason Youtube is what it is is because it pays its creators.

He’d be doing a lot more good if all that money went to taxes and was spent on actual social programs, instead of him playing government.