I buy mostly Dutch and Belgian brands from a local store. For example brands like Soci3ty, Zilton, Blue Industry.
You can probably do the same near your location, find some local qualitative brands. Usually these are too small to gamble with questionable quality, so they will usually ensure higher quality standards than the mass producers. Meanwhile you also support some local businesses, which is nice in this day and age.
Then there is someone like me that still wears 5 to 10 year old clothes that still look fresh 🙈
This seems to be the trick for great food as well. I’m not Italian, but every time I talk about food with an Italian they explain how few ingredients they actually use and how quick they can make dishes. It’s more about qualitative ingredients than anything else.
All build on the fear of using my Master ball on the wrong mon too early in the game.
Yeah, most people in this thread are focusing on gen Z, but why can’t a minor play video games? What if a kid wants to play a game like Rollercoaster Tycoon or the Sims, must they really be 18 years old? And why does a hardware component then verify that? It’s like age verification on a plate before dinner, fucking weird.
That’s also true, fair point
Disclaimer: I know climate change is a thing, and it’s bad (understatement).
As a counter argument, won’t an insurance company always look for risks that they can raise the rates against? Even if the insurance company is the most conservative business, if there is only a slight chance that climate change exists, it would be a win-win for the insurance company to raise the rates. Either it’s a real thing (which it is) and the higher rates now cover the risk. Or it’s not a thing, and the rates are higher now anyways.
Agree!
If you want to pirate content, go ahead pirate it. But don’t act like you’re doing something morally right or some other mental gymnastics to tell yourself you’re allowed to pirate content. The truth is, you’re doing something illegal. If you’re okay with that, then by all means go ahead, but don’t tell yourself or others that it is somehow not illegal, because it is.
Yeah, decades even
With the new policy in the visa application process, that will no longer be as effective. If you have to provide your social media profiles and make them public before entering the country, they already know who to pick out in case you said/liked/posted something that the regime doesn’t like.
“Including you the person reading this”.
We don’t all live in the US you know…
It cannot be explained by putting politics aside. Having Israel be there is in itself a political choice.
Because it’s not about money, it’s about respect.
It’s even become mandatory by communities in some games, which is something I hate with passion. For instance, many MMORPG communities are on Discord these days (e.g. Guild Wars 2, more specifically the raiding scene).
So I subscribed to these communities and started using Discord. I still don’t get the appeal, it’s a cluttered mess all over the place and it doesn’t feel intuitive to use. Maybe I’m getting old…
Technology is moving fast, I have experienced something similar in a metaverse like setting (release of a new luxury watch in a metaverse). It was a bit odd to describe. The vibe was closer to a Nintendo Mii gathering than an actual meeting. I’m sure one day we will get into the realm of sci-fi VR meetings, basically teleportation without actually moving. Just look at how quickly video calling went from sci-fi to basically being the norm in business these days.
As someone who often attends and speaks at these type of events, I would advice against that. The main benefit of these events lies in the connections people make. These connections are very personal and don’t really work in a virtual context (yet, might in the future though). Most innovations are inspired by having a chat with other people and just throw some ideas and different perspectives around. That won’t happen if you treat a conference as a Teams meeting, people would just dial in, give their presentation and leave. Frankly, most presentations or talks during these conferences could have been (usually are) an article anyways. It’s the discussions that happen outside of these agenda items where the value is.
Question: do we attribute Russia’s actions to terrorism? I would wager yes, as it can easily be labeled as a terrorist state at this point. In that case, I think we can give them lots of credit, right?
I fee like these movies are aimed at someone like me, a tech nerd that loves action movies and rides a motorcycle. But somehow, these movies don’t resonate with me at all. IMHO the plot is weak, half of the time the movie doesn’t make any sense, it just feels like a random vibe movie which just isn’t for me.