Hackworth

I'll second Dispatch. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would and legitimately looking forward to the next chapters.

Yeah, there's no real data for "show signs of manic or psychotic crisis," as far as I can tell. I just went for the low-hanging fruit, since mania is often part of bipolar (manic-depressive). But if just bipolar is sitting at 2.8% of Americans in a given year, I think it's reasonable to say the loosely defined global stats in the article aren't notably high.

An estimated 2.8% of U.S. adults had bipolar disorder in the past year. -NIH

I see a checkbox to turn on federated voting in settings. Clicking and holding a vote arrow brings up 4 options: upvote (federated), upvote (local), downvote (local), and downvote (federated). I guess federated votes may or may not be seen outside piefed? /shrug

I can pretty confidently say that 4k is noticeable if you're sitting close to a big tv. I don't know that 8k would ever really be noticeable, unless the screen is strapped to your face, a la VR. For most cases, 1080p is fine, and there are other factors that start to matter way more than resolution after HD. Bit-rate, compression type, dynamic range, etc.

I'm told one of the up sides to Piefed is that it anonymizes voting.

The fact that workers with expense accounts still feel they’re getting paid so little that they deserve to commit fraud says something about that stratum of employee.

Pretty much anyone who travels has to submit receipts. Most people who travel are not making bank. They're the people who set up and stand at convention booths, sales staff support, assistants, videographers, etc. Also, most travel is a miserable ordeal. I'm not saying it's okay to commit fraud, but let's not equate the hourly employee "re-creating" his lost lunch receipt with a 6-figure income.

Member when Bush Jr. leaned over to Michelle Obama and said, "That was some weird shit." after Trump's first inauguration? It's strange to see villain decay outside of fiction.

Cyberpunk 2077

Ladies and gentlemen, Unlit Pyre.

Kafkaesque

This is kinda the plot of Hudson Hawk.