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There’s a good reason we’ve had alcohol for almost as long as we’ve had civilization, and I think you hit on some key points of it here. It’s a social lubricant, many important meetings and decisions of history might not have happened without a little drink to loosen some tongues.

That’s not to say that it’s good for you, but alcohol has been present alongside human evolution in sort of the same way that dogs have. We go waaayyyyyy way back together.

Honestly might be an even harder flex than just being the only Caesar

As far as I can tell this exists upon the same legal framework as OpenMW does, which is that it’s a fully custom built engine from the ground up that just so happens to be able to take input from a game file. Nothing about the software actually contains any code that Nintendo ever wrote and in fact isn’t even trying to home bake the game from scratch, it’s JUST an engine. You feed it your ROM file and all Zelda-related content comes from that file.

The Pokemon romhacks that I know of that get taken down are different because they contain the actual code of Pokemon, just modified and redistributed. Smart people distribute romhacks as IPS files that you have to patch manually, the Super Mario World romhacking community has been doing this for literal decades. That functions on the same principle that none of the code being distributed was ever written by Nintendo, the file just interacts with one written by Nintendo.

At least, that’s how I understand the situation.

This, but unironically

Eh, I deleted the comment cause I felt I was being an ass about something I didn’t know a lot about. That’s fair.

Still though, I struggle to understand how “rip out everything and replace it with a different system” is more cost effective than “just put a transponder in the damn truck”. You say this was probably a cost cutting measure - you expect the people that cut that cost to now leap at the chance to overhaul their entire tracking system?

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Obviously Peter would never be compelled to military service, so it’s fine if everyone else is.

I don’t think that’s the right spot for either of them tbh, I’d say Fables should be a lot further left over the “mainstream” line and Rock should be several steps further up and right

At the very least, fascism, pandemics and gambling are nothing new.

It’s not.

You have an account on a server (instance). That server has an administrator. I have an account on a different server, which has a different administrator. We can speak to each other in the middle from these two separate servers, via federation protocols.

The administrator(s) on your server are loud and proud authoritarians and frequently silence any discussion of general resistance, among other topics that they don’t like. This is not a personal failure on your part; there’s not much way to know about it except to be told or to inspect the mod logs yourself. Now that you’ve been told, though, you have the opportunity to move to a server that actually respects your right to speak on the internet.

Or you may elect to stay on LW and be banned or censored without warning, and be lightly associated with auth-left idiots for anyone who knows what the LW admins are like. That is a choice that can be made.

If you are going to make a move, I’ll warn you that .ml is known for similar. Just about most anywhere else is hosted by sane people, frequently as independent projects, even more frequently as a direct response to LW and ML’s dumbfuckery.

Unironically, yes. The brain is really weird about a lot of shit. It’s not that difficult to make it believe something if you’re committed.

I got involved in this around a decade ago learning a bunch of “brain hacking” stuff. Can confirm, it is real. Can’t say it’s something I’d recommend to the average person, though. It’s a fast track to some major instability if you aren’t used to playing around with your own thought processes in detail.

We need a browser extension that will add or remove a random number of dummy browser extensions per session to further obfuscate the fingerprinting

No kidding, this cat looks like it could bench press a German Shepherd

Yeah, it should be tax funded and overseen by an independent oversight group.

I don’t know why this is such a difficult thing. Access to information is necessary for a healthy society. Things that are necessary for a healthy society but aren’t profitable should be tax funded, that’s the purpose of the taxes.

Then don’t show up to participate in the event, then

I read Dresden Files for the first time within the last 18 months and I’ve been relentlessly shilling it to everyone ever since. I’ve been a bookworm my entire life and it’s probably my favorite series I’ve ever read, ever. It fucking slaps, it’s SO good.

I don’t feel valued because I bring no value to anyone in my life. Internet strangers asking questions do not count into that lol

Well, sure it does. That’s the reason we’re all here, isn’t it? Maybe not for you in particular, but for the Lemmy community. Internet strangers asking questions that you then answer and spark discussion is kind of THE value that any of us bring to this place. People asking questions and having discussions and sharing their own perspectives and life experiences is like, 80% of the whole internet. It’s what brought us into the global awareness that we have today.

I’ll just continue to airdash into BT and get slapped out of it repeatedly, it’s all good

I actually didn’t even use WA that much because I like to keep my meters up for emergencies. That half bar of burst is the difference between life and death sometimes, especially on a heavy.