How much is that as a percentage of the average monthly income, would you say?

Really? Even in the little tutorial one with the miller?

Sounds like an invitation to set up a new power company - I’m not sure how expensive electricity is in India but solar farms in rural areas are generally a good thing.

Just do it. People are so numbed to the idea of their data being sold that you’re probably not going to get much money out of it.

My condolences.

SteamDB says Rimworld, but I’m almost certain it’s actually Fallout: NV, as the Nexus launcher at one point bypassed Steam and so those hours aren’t represented. I have about 1100 hours in Rimworld, but probably closer to 3000 in Fallouts 3 and NV.

Lol I somehow completely forgot about Guild Wars 2. Pretty sure my age in that game is over 2 years of active playtime.

Honestly, being willing to jump to a new platform is possibly the most effective way to stop platforms from fucking you over too hard.

And most importantly - there isn’t millions of dollars spent to market it to people. You have to go out of your way to learn about Mastodon or federation in general, and as you say, their reputations precede them.

The Amazon reviews thing I assume is referring to Fakespot, which Mozilla bought some time ago.

But I’m confused about their “AI’ed it up” comment because from the very beginning Fakespot was using ML to determine the tone of reviews and whether or not they were lying about the product/paid reviews by the seller.

You really haven’t thought this through. What happens if I email you a bunch of illegal pictures? Guess we’re both going to jail.

If it costs the NYT money and buys the workers some bargaining power, I’m all for it.

It’s extremely disappointing to me (admittedly in the US) that Covid seems to have obliterated any chance for a large-scale investigation on payment processors’ stranglehold on our financial systems. The fees that Visa/Mastercard/etc. charge, especially for tiny merchants with insanely low transaction numbers, are criminal.

It’s a fair argument, especially given how much… entertainment he seems to derive from owning it.

A cable subscription isn’t a depreciating asset, though.

I think the fact that you’ve spent a lot of time in liberal organizations is why you think that way about where it falls on the continuum between progressivism and conservatism.

Interesting that you characterize my statement as "both sides"ing. I would say the thrust of my statement is not “both sides” but “one side”. America does not have a progressive party, only conservative and conservative-lite. Given the choice, of course I’ll choose the latter, not least because the former is so far off the deep end it may never recover as a party. That does not mean I think that both parties are the same.

Visually:

--------Progressivism ------------------------ Center ------ Liberalism --------------------------- Conservatism.

Liberals and conservatives are more similar than liberals and progressives.

In order to pay your utility bill, you have to beat the Undertale Sans fight in Genocide mode

Because it makes it harder for advertisers to mine and sell your data. That’s it.

I know. I was devastated when I first watched it, because I was so sure it was going to pass…

Also, if interested, check out this documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Factory. Has a lot of interesting crosstalk between Chinese/American views on work and business.