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Legit data centers will probably want personal info so I don't know how anonymous you can be. You might want to start also looking into legal protection, like placing the site and hardware under an LLC. You can pay extra to incorporate in places like NV. Nevada does not reveal owner information to the public. The down side is you need a registered agent in NV, which you can get for a simple monthly fee. Sell the site to the LLC, put the WHOIS as the company. Put donations into a company checking account plus your own startup cash. Pay for the domain renewal, hardware, services, etc with the company account. For tax purposes the profit/loss goes on your normal yearly taxes. Legally the company is the company and not you. If someone sues the site because they found copyrighted material, or defamation or anything like that, the company gets sued, not you. If the company is forced to sell its assets in a settlement, then that is separate from your personal finances. They can't take your car, house, or personal bank account away. This way, at the very worst, you can walk away without losing everything.
Right now you're renting cloud space/compute. The liability there is a little different than if you owned the hosting yourself. It's worth looking into how that works. You don't want to set up a server and get sued 6mo later and lose everything.
The down side is all this takes paperwork, research, and some ongoing fees. You also have to put profit and loss on your taxes. That can benefit you because losses can be written off and used to help you with your tax burden. But there may be limitations to how long you can take losses and how much. This means you may have to look at a similar but different legal entity like a non profit. You also need to handle the crypto exactly right as to not trigger audits or increase legal exposure. IANAL, so idk.
Really, check the contract for renting space in the data center. That will probably contain some indemnification liability info that lets you know how exposed you are.
A billionaire who both inherited his family fortune and also got tons of startup capital from the municipality of NYC, so he could speculate on the city's real estate, who became president, orders hamburgers from billion dollar tech company that charges $30 for a $5 sandwich, the hamburgers being made by another billion dollar company that gets most of its return from real estate speculation, not making hamburgers, delivered by a grandma who can't afford to live past retirement unless she hand-delivers fast food until she dies, recorded by a news network as a commercial for the food delivery company and the burger restaurant, the news company owned by a billionaire Australian who tried to monopolize US news and turn it into reality tv, the president having had his own long-running reality tv show, staging this encounter with a normal worker as if this is something they do, as if anyone can just walk up to the white house and drop off food, going through the motions of this charade regardless, because a billion dollar consulting firm told them it's what people like, while the president explains why he didn't post an AI image of himself as Jesus Christ, in response to a flame war with the Pope, because the Pope quoted the Bible.
Even though he wrote a lot of words I think all this comes down to is that Ezra recognizes that Hasan is cool. Ezra used to be cool when he first got his job at Wapo (not actually cool, but cool for him and his age). He was scouted by an older writer and recognized for his innovation into the new media of blogging. Now Ezra, even though he's not that old, is in a similar position. Here is Hasan, building this reputation on a new media that Ezra was not cool enough to innovate. He sees that and is now trying to soften his stance on Hasan. Ezra realizes he's old media and wants to be close to the cool new media again because that's how he got started.
It always amazes me how much the medium is the message when it comes to discourse. The things we use to communicate end up shaping the content of our arguments way more than whatever ideology we think is behind it.
I have a couple gameplay mods but nothing that adds missions or does infinite gigs/radio quests. I'm an immersion person so I put most of my effort into that.
Immersion mods:
- Immersive First Person
- Smooth Movement
- Inside the NCART Station
- Inside the Metro
- Night City Alive
- Immersive Rippers
- Immersive Bartenders
- Immersive Food Vendors
- Idle Anywhere
- Limited HUD
Visual mods:
- Improved Vegetation
- Improved Environment
- Blur Begone
- Enable Advert Animations
- Preem Weather
- Preem Map
- Dog Town Visuals Nulled
- Night City Visuals Nulled
- Ragdoll Physics Overhaul
- LUT Switcher 2 (get the preem and nova sets for it)
QoL:
- Map Nuclear Explosion
- All Vanilla Clothes Atelier Store
Gameplay:
- They Will Remember (adds reputation system for gangs/factions, ties your clothing choices to gang affiliations, makes face coverings functional)
- Lifepath Bonuses and Gang-Corp Traits (makes damage types specific to gangs/factions, adds bonuses/weaknesses based on lifepaths and gangs/factions)
A lot of these mods have dependencies but I didn't list them. Just pay attention to what each requires. There is an immersion mod called Dark Future that I don't use, it adds survival mechanics. You get hungry, sleepy, dehydrated, or addicted to substances. Those conditions will affect your stats. I don't use it because it sounds tedious.
This gets walked back tomorrow at around 2:30pm or Tuesday before lunch.
Edit: Done!
There's a certain type of libertarian who thinks the CIA is communist because it's the ultimate state organization, and it attacks right wing groups.
Algorithms are picking up every mention of warehouse and fire and pushing it to people who are then sharing it and pushing it further. Social media doesn't care about recency which is why almost all of them default to trending. It'll push days old news as if it just happened because it sounds like it's related.
Personally I think this guy should be president of the DSA, regardless of whatever we're about to find out about his past.
Lore Drop:
I'm the one who suggested we formalize the disengage rule
In this thread: https://hexbear.net/comment/712521
Idk if people can see it because the author deleted it. But this is when it was added to the CoC. It's me, Hexbear. The author of all your pain.
The whole reason it came up at all is because there were people here who would keep replying even if you stopped replying to them. They would keep making posts like "why aren't you replying?" or replying in other threads about the previous argument.
Open the fucking strait...nooooooow...
New episode drops in a few hours (9PM EST) for the western hemisphere. It drops tomorrow (2AM GMT) for everyone else. Share your thoughts on the show, theories, and grievances.
Episode description: "Carol's new approach to The Others yields unexpected revelations; Manousos finds himself in strange territory upon regaining consciousness."
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Episode drops in a few hours (9pm EST) if you're in the western hemisphere. It drops tomorrow at 2am GMT elsewhere.
Episode description: Manousos begins a dangerous trek to meet Carol. Returning home from Las Vegas, Carol gets creative with her rebellion.
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Episode releases tonight (Dec 4) at 9pm EST.
Episode Description: "Carol shares a horrific discovery and learns new truths in the process. Mr. Diabaté lives life to the fullest in Sin City."
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What if they were awake this whole time but couldn't tell the difference? I think mods should sell their father's modding fortune to a Japanese business man. Or, more accurately, they think they should do that.
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I knew a guy in high school who got that verse from Pulp Fiction tattooed on his ribs. Even back then (early 00s) everyone considered it corny. Nobody ever believed those types of guys would ever be in charge of anything more than a landscaping company or a high school gym class. But it turns out some of those guys went to Ivy League and knew the right people and are now running the country. Though if you think about it, Bush Jr was that type of guy too, he was just from a different generation that didn't have corny Tarantino shit to idolize.