It definitely feels like human civilization as we know it is nearing its end, be it from climate change or ww3, so probably that.

Dunno, the joke becomes obvious if you check the link, and the link being “diaphragm (birth control)” is effectively the joke indicator. The comment works as a joke all on its own, it’s not a setup.

More like an ok conductor, but yea that’s what I meant with the blood (and whatever other ways water exists in our body). Though even pure water is more conductive than air by orders or magnitude.

Just out of pedantry: Water has terrible conductivity. Blood is less terrible though and in any case air is far worse than either, so point stands.

We can get past that particular issue if the electric dinosaur was jumping such that its victim has the shortest air gap

Deleting the tokens after verification, presumably. You don’t need to save the token after verification, you set a flag on either the account or the session and discard the token.

There are, of course, always ways. If the government starts tracking at which times tokens were used, and merchants store a timestamp of purchases of age gated content, which is probably required anyway for all purchases, you could get at least some hints on who bought what by comparing first purchase of account with verification time, since it’s likely for those two to be very close together. And that’s just off one data point.

Of course, the moment you pay with anything other than a prepaid voucher bought with cash in a place you don’t normally frequent, you can do similar things with the payment data. Or, if you pay with card, your info is right there.

That said, a government going that far will find any excuse to lock you up anyway, so I don’t have an issue with the method per se. However I still don’t think it’s very necessary to go this far to lock 18+ content online. If anything I’d rather want to see something like this used for spending limits in f2p games and such.

Wouldn’t surprise me if many young people can’t, I’m on the edge between millenial and gen z and reading an analog clock always needs some active effort. I’ve always preferred digital so I never really had to read analog clocks besides the one that hung in our kitchen and that one time I had a watch. Oh and the train stations still all have analog.

Kitchen clocks, if they aren’t just the oven or microwave, are probably becoming rarer, so when your watch is also digital, you’d never really encounter analog if it’s not somewhere in the public space, which will probably depend on where you live.

I’d guess most kids probably still can read one with effort because at least when there’s a second hand (since you can easily see it move) it’s kinda self explanatory, and it probably got explained in school once.

She’s almost a billionaire, nothing will stop her from having the money for her bs anymore. Money keeps shitting out more money. That’s not to say that boycotting hp will do nothing, but the impact really is minimal.

Her getting money from it is also not entirely related to seperating the art from the artist, as there are plenty of ways to just not give her money and still interact with the art. I don’t really think the books are all that great (and also have some shit messages in their own right) but it’s still undeniable that they got a lot of kids into reading and are clearly very good at captivating young readers.

I know this wouldnt work for me but absolutely please if you’re unhappy with your mornings or evenings try different sleep schedules within what your obligations allow.

Doesn’t have to be getting up at 5, for me I’d ideally go to bed there but since my job doesn’t allow me to start in the afternoon, I’ve found that showering in the evening and getting up at 8 to then be able to just get ready and go to work in <15 minutes works great. I’m a zombie after waking up until I get some exercise anyway, so after cycling to work I’m fine and I just need to minimize the effort needed before that.

Get up late, or wake up in the middle of the night to get all your free time before work instead of after, prepare everything you can before bed or take all your time in the morning. But if you feel like what you’re doing right now sucks, try something else if at all possible.

They’re technically voluntary but also socially expected. I’m not sure about birthday gifts in particular but Japan is a country where if you go on holiday somewhere you’re expected to bring a gift for each of your coworkers, and people will think worse of you for not doing that. I’d be kind of surprised if omitting birthday gifts for your romantic partner without prior agreement is a real option.

The equivalent would be instead of saying “the only good nazi is a dead nazi” you’re saying “the only good german is a dead german”. Or, alternatively, saying nazi to mean german.

I don’t blame anyone for feeling uncomfortable with countries that have done horrific shit to them in the past, that’s normal and fine. Translating that into a blanket hatred for its current population is not (it isn’t in general, but it’s hard to truly blame someone for just not liking people from a country they’re currently at war with by default, it’s kinda the natural reaction and they probably have other shit to deal with)

I had something kiind of similar once, where it would only boot after trying to boot once, letting it run a bit in idle, and then rebooting where it would actually succeed. Turned out I forgot to put the clear cmos jumper back to neutral after i reset cmos.

So my best guess (other than new battery) is check the jumpers maybe

And my point was that it might not necessarily be worse for artists outside of the extremelg successful ones.

I’m mainly wondering how in the everloving fuck apparently the average guess for “live in new york city” is 30%? Surely that has to be trolls answering 100% skewing the average? The number of nyc residents i have floating around in my head is 20 million for some reason (which as it turns out is already a vast overestimation), which would be around 7% with the 330 million i have floating around for US population (which is pretty close to the real number)

I know the US education system isn’t great, but surely people at least have some very basic knowledge about their own country?

The bi thing is almost certainly your bubble. Younger generations (just gonna guess you aren’t beyond your mid thirties at most, if yes then I’d find your experience very surprising) skew more towards expressing non-hetero sexualities already, and being around more ideologically left-wing groups likely skews it heavily. It could also be that some people feel some same-sex attraction, but still identify as hetero.

The numbers do seem about right in general, bisexuality is a weird thing bc I’m also quite convinced some degree of it is extremely common, but that doesn’t mean all those people identify that way.

I’m really not sure europe is very different there, beyond the fact that european countries as a whole are more culturally diverse than US states, or the US vs. Canada. And even then many people only travel to tourist destinations within europe that won’t let you really experience a different local culture anyway.

It’s still probably true that europeans experience a bit more cultural diversity because it’s just easier to do, but I find it hard to blame the american people for that when so many are too poor to even think of traveling far, and experiencing something other than canada or mexico is significantly harder than to go e.g. from germany to romania.

Counterpoint: Without music streaming or pirating I wouldn’t have discovered most of the artists I listen to. Artists of which I have bought concert tickets and merch (and in one case recurring support through youtube membership), and even just buying songs on bandcamp outright in spite of only listening via streaming.

Streaming is shit at generating revenue, but far far better at allowing artists to get noticed, which puts more power into the artists’ hands rather than labels. “Support what you like through donations and merch” seems like a much better model overall (and has been proven to work), which also allows people with less money to enjoy the music while those with money to spare support it (and usually artists would want nothing more than for everyone to be able to enjoy their work, but they also have to live off something).

Though this is an outside perspective and I’d be interested in what actual musicians have to say about it, particularly those that have been making a living/significant money off it both before and after the event of streaming (and not the huge ones, because they never had any exposure issues).

There’s also a chance that as a result of the discoverability, even if total money reaching the artists was unchanged, it’s split over more recipients, so it’s harder to actually make a living off it, but maybe easier to see at least some returns instead of it only being a money sink. Whether that’d be good or bad overall I can’t say.

Also since this thread is about games, I don’t think it really applies there since games are on average MUCH more expensive to make.

I mean yea that doesn’t surprise me in the slightest honestly, even outside of the number itself being pretty meaningless in the first place it’s very fuzzy what the actual dates are.

I never said it was the left lol, everything I said applies regardless of political leanings. Though in all likelihood there were at least some leftists that didn’t.

Also the commenters that were saying as much on this extremely left leaning platform are probably the ones mainly adressed by OP.

Both can be true. The major US parties are both rotten to the core and as such the leadership of the democrats has much of the responsibility for this, but people not voting are still fascism enablers, albeit to a lesser degree than those voting for trump for non-fascism reasons.

Voting third party is one thing, it’s the only way outside of revolution you’re going to escape from the established two parties. Not voting only signals apathy and the only explicit statement is “I’m ok with whoever wins, including the raping racist hitler v2”.

Average. It’s just an average. I haven’t verified whether the number is accurate (and often it’s probably debatable what qualifies as an empire and at what point it fell) but some empires lasting way longer does nothing to disprove 250 years being the average lifespan.

The second part of what you said is still entirely correct of course, that number has no real predictive capabilities for the collapse of the USA.

Then they can accept that I won’t do whatever thing they want me to do, because I don’t exist to serve them?