There’s a question of how to do that, or at least how to best stop destructive business practices, and related to that, how these strategies work and where the money is coming from. From the explanation given here it sounds like their answer is, the bank loaning the money gets ripped off and left with a worthless company. Which seems a little implausible and needs more explanation about why that is possible as a common trend. But since I keep seeing GPTisms, I’m thinking maybe that detail was slightly off in some important way, because the writing is LLM approximation bullshitting.

Anyway it’s just frustrating because this topic is interesting to me but there isn’t any real information here that can reasonably be relied on.

I’m assuming that mandatory ID checks would make yt-dlp not work

How do you even do that?

Pretty sure ChatGPT wrote this article, not sure how accurate any of this is when there’s no sources.

TikTok

I think you’re always going to have problems with a lack of authenticity on platforms where opaque algorithms do all the work of deciding what gets popular and what gets shown to who.

but the kinds of people who grape others generally don’t feel shame

I think this is probably not true.

the primary tool society uses to respond to grape, assault, prison, ostracizing or murder is, so like, so what is there less shame?

Those tools aren’t equally available to everyone, they are expressions of power, which some people have access to more than others.

however without apps like this if you think about it we’d have to be back to driving everywhere to go eat at most places most restaurants profits would be down still and you would have to work at those shit restaurants for even worse pay

How about instead of all that we go back to people making their own food at home and let the restaurant industry die off altogether

From what I’ve heard “psychopath” is in fact a disorder that makes a person worse at managing their own life, in addition to making things worse for the people around them.

It’s definitely glossing over some stuff, like when it talks about the unwillingness of neighbors to trade with them and chalking it up to “burned bridges”, I imagine the aggressive US sanctions they’ve been under played a big role there.

My issue with this way of thinking is that difficulty is not always a gradient thing, it can be about what you have learned and are able to apply. If a game is very focused around the player developing specific skills, and repeated practice until they are able to figure it out, an easier version where you can get through it without learning the prerequisites would not be the same game at all, and requesting that could amount to the same thing as asking for its erasure.

I like it, more people should adopt unusual typing quirks imo

Wait what? How does that work? Is there some data storage in the motherboard that’s remembering the best way to organize your ram?

and there’s a well-defined mission in each zone

It’s been a long time but I remember there being missions with scripted events and objectives and stuff, but then also areas where the main thing to do was simply travel through it to get to other places. My favorite moment from the game was when I worked out that you could skip a portion of the normal progression by getting to a higher level area early to buy more powerful equipment, but actually getting there was a real challenge due to being underleveled and the difficulty of getting past enemies without killing them. I got a group to make the attempt (which took some explaining and persuasion because it wasn’t the normal next thing to do) and we spent hours on it and got to the last leg of the journey, but ultimately had to give up because our death penalties were stacked too high to get through that last bit. I was able to make it on a later attempt with a different group using character loadouts more specialized for the task.

Something I think GW1 did really well was doing various things like this to build up a sense of location and meaningful travel, which does a lot of work to compensate for the gameplay itself happening in isolated instances and making the world of the game feel expansive and epic.

“For our awards to comply with the law we have to limit who can be considered for an award to biological women only,” she explained.

"This change to the awards doesn’t alter our strong commitment to including and supporting all those who cycle, including transgender and non-binary people.

What about just not having the awards then

For me what triggered getting a lot of malicious login attempts in the logs was pointing a dns record directly at my ip

Emote only chat

I don’t think anyone would ever argue against that

Aren’t they though? Take the example from the article:

KJ Muldoon of Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, was diagnosed shortly after birth with severe CPS1 deficiency – the buildup of toxic ammonia in the blood.

The experimental therapy, crafted specifically for his condition, corrected a minor yet crucial error in his genetic code, offering hope for others with similarly rare diseases.

While liver transplants can be a solution for some, this innovative gene-editing treatment offers a new avenue of hope.

Presumably this was considered acceptable because it is something that was able to be done after the baby was born. What about similar, unambiguously deleterious conditions (there are lots of really awful ones) that fall afoul of the broad prohibitions on modifying embryos? At least on paper, this is specifically what the company that the article is about claims its focus is; the stuff no one disagrees that it’s bad to be born with. Like it isn’t very arguable that it’s good for babies to have ammonia in their blood and need liver transplants.

Gene editing to create a baby is illegal in the US, UK, and many countries around the world, with critics arguing it is unethical and unsafe.

So really at this point the question is only, do we allow the development and use of this technology for the things there is no objection about. I guess the risk is that this will be a slippery slope and lead to things being done that are actually bad, or maybe that mistakes will be made that cause unintended genetic issues. But if it was possible to use it just for that class of diseases, and the treatments were safe and worked, it would be a good thing.

Ass pennies guy in shambles

Reddit recently got rid of their direct message system entirely in favor of their new ‘chat’ system, which overall sucks, but one advantage is you now don’t see messages by default and have the option to ‘ignore’ message requests instead of seeing their content. As for manual moderation, doubt that will ever happen since Reddit is a corporation that isn’t going to want to pay people for that kind of thing.

I don’t watch his other content but in that one video he was absolutely doing exactly what a typical user would do in his situation. He was trying to follow a tutorial, he ran into the sort of warning message Windows users are conditioned to breeze past, and followed the onscreen instructions without trying to understand the confusing stuff. They changed how it worked after that incident, as they should if mass adoption is at all desirable.