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Almost none of this is unique to the gaming industry; it's all symptoms of under-regulated capitalism.

He had to ditch the deal then in order to manufacture an excuse to attack them now. This is what he wants.

Credulous media excusing his warmongering by pretending it's some kind of mistake can fuck all the way off!

Alligator Auschwitz. Not Alcatraz. Don't let them control the narrative on this.

Same, except I am in the US. I suspect this is highly stratified by class, such that either nobody you know has been arrested or everybody you know has been arrested.

This is why the Fediverse and VPNs/Tor etc. are so important.

How is this not illegal in the EU?

If you want to not have an abusive relationship with your OS, you gotta dump Windows entirely.

My newest computer (custom mini-ITX with an AMD 5700X3D, 64 GB RAM, Radeon 9070XT, 4 TB NVME, etc.) is still compatible with the keyboard from my first computer (a Tandy 1000 RLX HD with an Intel 80286, 1 MB RAM, VGA graphics, 20 MB HDD). Manufactured three decades apart, but they both have PS/2 ports!

I still have that Tandy keyboard; I should dust it off and plug it in.

Deaths per capita might not be as useful a metric as deaths per 100,000 km driven could arguably be better. But then you’re perhaps not taking into account deaths of pedestrians & cyclists.

I would argue that deaths per distance traveled (even if it included modes other than driving) could be worse because it might skew the results in favor of sprawl-y countries with a lot of freeway driving.

The pursuit of "safety" (measured in deaths per distance traveled) has been the excuse for a lot of terrible design decisions in traffic engineering, because keeping the number of deaths the same while increasing the speed and distance traveled looks like a win.

It depends what they're tweaking and why. For example, a lot of stuff is tweaked to become "Roundup ready," and facilitating the mass use of glyphosate is dangerous.

You're right: plastic is just as recyclable now as it was before.

Which is to say, it continues to largely fail to be recyclable.

It really is looking like "ecoterrorism" is the only remaining viable strategy to save human civilization.

Only thing it didn’t have like the Basilisk was BT functionality, which in my use case wasn’t a deal breaker.

Batteries are kind of a deal-breaker for me anyway. If I were to get a wireless mouse, it would have to be the kind that's powered by induction from the mouse pad.

I also like my Redragon mouse, a "Griffin M602A-RGB". I picked it entirely because (a) the shape fits my hand well, with well-sculpted indentations for my thumb, ring, and pinky fingers, and (b) it's cheap, but not so cheap it isn't still decent.

Yet again, low-density exclusionary zoning causing car-dependency (which is why the "third spaces" you're talking about have all-but disappeared) is revealed as the root cause of almost every problem we have.

I'm not sure about tire wear, but fun fact: road wear and tear is proportional to vehicle mass raised to the fourth power. If road users were taxed fairly for that and cyclists with average-weight bikes were made to pay 1¢, drivers of average-sized sedans would need to pay millions of dollars.

(That's my go-to response when idiots start talking about bicycle license plates or "cyclists need to pay their fair share," BTW.)

Considering how thin bike tires are compared to car tires and how long they last nonetheless (unless you're doing skid-stops all the time), it seems plausible that the same weight⁴ relationship might apply, which means tire-abrasion microplastics from bicycles would be relatively negligible, compared to ones from cars.

Of course, rail is the real winner in this instance, since it doesn't have this problem to begin with.

I'll be honest: I haven't made it past (or even to the end of) that episode either. I've tried a couple of times, but end up stopping after a few minutes just from the sheer cringe.

And I really like the rest of the show, to the point where I don't want to skip any episodes, but that one I really ought to skip.

They're not shutting it down because they don't want to pay for it. They're shutting it down because it's created the longest-running record of atmospheric CO₂ levels, and climate facts hurt oligarchs' feelings.

They're not gonna let anybody else operate it either, regardless of funding.

They're gonna arrest the immigrant farm workers and then lease them right back to the same farms as slaves.