I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not, because Elon actually is doing that.

In both these cases, the payment technically isn’t directly for voting for a specific candidate. The payment is for an unrelated action that only someone voting for your candidate would agree with. Either way, still smells bad.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/10/07/elon-musks-pac-is-paying-47-for-each-solicited-petition-signature-from-a-swing-state-voter-heres-why-its-controversial/

Sony hasn’t done the paperwork to officially do business in those countries, so you can’t make a psn account. And because Sony is intent on forcing psn accounts, it leads to this stupid situation where those countries are locked out, despite Steam supporting them.

Only problem is streaming services like Amazon that purposefully limit the quality on Linux.

I don’t know about the 13, but on the 16 you can update via USB, no OS required. Kind of annoying, but it works.

It’s a thing, it’s just run by the same companies, so you’re stuck with them either way.

Plus, with everything moving to streaming, satellite TV just isn’t as relevant. You end up dealing with the same cable companies for internet regardless.

Yes. Microsoft owns Activision Blizzard, as of Oct 2023

Unfortunately, that isn’t feasible in the current system. In first past the post every vote is damage control at best.

We need ranked choice voting everywhere before people will even consider a third party.

Yep. They rewrote the progression/leveling system like 5 times.

Yes.

The only added flavor in standard chocolate chip cookie dough is vanilla. Plus the chocolate chips.

Of course people don’t usually think about it like that because vanilla is in nearly all baked sweets.

Yeah, that always seemed like a transitional name to me. The BSA branding has been so prominent historically, they kinda had to keep it for a while.

I agree with most of your points, but I don’t know, I think I would keep the reverent in the scout law, even if the oath changed.

As a (nonreligious) scout, I always interpreted the reverent more as being respectful than actually religious. More like respecting the beliefs of others, or being respectful and solemn in a cemetery or a war memorial.

There’s nothing else in the scout law that conveys that feeling, and I feel like the law would be missing it if it were dropped.

Endeavour’s current iso is still KDE 5 and X11, but if you do an online install it will default to 6 and Wayland. Just make sure to connect to the Internet before starting the installer.

The word “protects” seems almost intentionally misleading here. They are talking about changing zoning requirements to allow for higher density housing, instead of forcing single family home suburbs.

I think they’re rationalizing it by saying that’s a juvenile sandworm. The larger one with the round mouth is fully grown.

They probably just wanted a design difference between a smaller human scale threat and the massive ones that eat entire structures like spice harvesters.

Spotify has almost every song on the planet

Until a contract negotiation with UMG goes south and they lose half the catalog overnight. See what’s happening on tiktok right now for a good example of this.

I understand the convenience draw, but I’m not a fan of continually paying for content that can disappear at any moment.

something implied about transporter buffers seems to indicate they can hold incredible amounts of data that starts to degrade very quickly

Exactly. I always understood the difference between replicators and transporters to be the level of detail in the scan. The replicators don’t need as much detail to make a convincing steak or a cup of tea. So they can store those scans at a much lower resolution and have a full, permanent library.

The transporters need an immense amount of detail to perfectly store your pattern, to avoid messing with your brain chemistry and causing transporter psychosis. It’s too much data to keep on hand for every crew member.

Yes, but the word rewrite implies that it would serve the same function and retain compatibility.

If someone wrote a new implementation of the x protocol, as a drop in replacement for the existing x.org server, you might call that a rewrite.

Wayland is an entirely different solution to the same problem. It doesn’t follow the x protocol, and doesn’t maintain compatibility with the x.org server.

It is, but as far as I understand, you can disable some of it depending on your coreboot/libreboot setup.

Coreboot is open source, but when you build the rom for your machine, you have to pack in closed source blobs for Intel me, and any other proprietary parts of the chip.

I’m not up to date on current happenings with libreboot, but the goal there was to get it working 100% open source, without closed source blobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

They were buying water from Detroit’s water system. In order to save money, they switched to getting it from the nearby river, but they failed to account for how the new water source would interact with their pipes. They didn’t treat the new water correctly and it corroded all their old lead pipes, dumping lead into the water and giving everyone lead poisoning.

Even years later, after they switched back to Detroit water, they’re still having problems because the damage to the pipes is already done.

I get why you would want that, but I think that would end up causing other weird issues. Like what happens when someone from that instance is in the middle of a comment chain? Would it cut off the thread there, or would there just be a comment missing?

I’ll take the simple solution over no solution.