LwL

If I kept my current lifestyle and had a job paying twice as much, I'd be a millionaire by the time I retire. And twice as much would be around 100k€. Which is a lot, but still something a decent amount of people make. And it's not like it'd be impossible with less.

Not how that works. Not how any of that works.

I skimmed over the full text earlier, it gives reasons for why it was the gravest crime against humanity, and in general did seem like it meant the gravest that ever happened (that we know of at least).

It also mentions (and really is about) reparations which I suspect mightve influenced the abstains even more than the assertion that it was the gravest crime. Easier to weasel yourself out of doing anything/keep reparations low if you can say you never really voted yes on that.

Maybe because it's an unreleased game, so regardless of dislike for previous iterations you can't really judge it.

Also there's a difference between "I wish these games were good" and "I wish I liked these games". Like no shit you're going into a thread only interesting to people that like a series and say "the series sucks" completely unprompted, adding nothing of value. Of course you'll get booed out of the room.

Does the steamdeck use NTFS? That would seem like a very strange decision, and it does explicitly mention steamdeck support.

Should also be noted that it's specifically about african slavery in the transatlantic slave trade, not a general ranking of slavery above the rest. I think there's merit to that actually just being the worst we've done due to its sheer scale and cruelty (not to mention its effects still lingering to this day), but it carries the usual issues of potentially feeling like it diminishes other horrible things (irish potato famine, holocaust, ...). So this might be a rare case where I actually agree with my government voting abstain. I'm a little surprised even that, in their usual israel bootlicking, they didn't just vote against because "clearly holocaust was the worst".

Edit: it seems the meat of it is also about recognizing that there have never been any reparations, and that there really should be some. Which I absolutely agree with, and I figure votes wouldve looked the same regardless of whether it also recognizes it as the greatest crime against humanity (maybe israel wouldve actually been the exception, since their against vote was probably "but holocaust", and I don't think they'd really be on the hook for reparations). So you can now pretty clearly see the map as "how much did the country benefit from transatlantic slave trade, ergo how scared are they that they might actually have to pay reparations for the still lasting economic advantages they gained". All while africa is still largely being exploited by those same countries (plus others, now).

4x8 feet is a whole lot less than 4x8m. That's less than 1.5x3m if im remembering how long that cursed unit was correctly.

Still not a super small area to just have available, but probably more realistic for many people. I could probably arrange for that in my 40m^2 apartment

Yes, and the laws (so far) are exactly that: you input an age. No further identity verification or anything.

I don't like the law for the precedent but as it stands it's a harmless, potentially even useful feature.

I doubt it, honestly. It'd likely catch a lot of misinfo, yes, but it would likely also classify any new findings that run counter to previous assumptions as misinfo. LLMs can't keep up to date. And they still have the same issue that whoever trains them gets to decide what is and isn't misinfo, which starts being a problem when it's an ubiquitous social media site.

4 seems chill, unless whoever the window seat is changes that. There's also a morbid curiosity to the result of sitting in 6, it might just be entertaining enough to be worth it.

That's why I think the law is bad, but it doesn't really apply to open source software. You see the actual limit crossed, you can still fork the version from before that.

Even the law itself, as it stands, is pretty alright. It's effectively just a parental control system, the OS needs to provide the user age to applications, but that age is just whatever you type at install, without any verification. In general, if enough applications implement it, that's not a bad system to help protect kids without invading anyones privacy. Of course, it can be circumvented by the kid installing the OS themselves, but that possibility is a feature, not a bug.

The problem there is the slippery slope though.

I'd imagine the crazy neighbour is russia. I think they qualify, and the country is in europe.

What's funny to me is that russia also borders the US. It's not a land border, but the gap isn't exactly huge.