And yet I think the only one who’s actually happy is probably Buffet. Most of them are so hated by everyone and clearly have mental, emotional or social problems.

Especially Musk, I don’t think you can pay me his net worth to convince me to be him (although all the better since I’m also rather attached to my head and I’d rather not lose it).

I mean, it is still a whole course of civics but you sorta have to be paying attention in school. It’s also usually late high school and your average tiktok user may not have graduated yet. Kinda makes sense since you’re hitting voting age at that point.

Plus international audiences, although if I’m being honest I think they have better odds of knowing what the constitution is.

Of all things I have in common with people outside the US, somehow that’s one of my favorites, haha. I think your comment made my day, lol

Whoa! Is that why I hate Hershey’s? I don’t mind their dark but the milk one is awful lol

Yeah, and there really are much better ways to support creators.

And for real, since my family tends to share accounts and I keep my stuff relatively secret, tracking never gets it right. Hell half the time they just give me Spanish ads. I don’t speak Spanish.

Hmm… People in your comments either conflate ads with telemetry (you can have tracker free ads) or they don’t understand that there is value in ads equal to at least a fraction of sold content. Maybe they’re triggered by the term piracy, which admittedly is a strong term, but honestly your core argument is correct.

I’m pro-piracy, though, and certainly take pride in picking and choosing who or what I put value in. It’s more obvious with paying a patreon or buying a product you already pirated, but allowing ads to play (or at least giving a video view though to trigger the counter, liking and subscribing, etc) is also a form of support. And yes, you can do so without completely violating privacy although they’re certainly making that harder lately…

I was legitimately confused what they were even attacking since auto start/stop has been so inconsequential in my life that I didn’t even notice they were randomly trying to attack something nobody has ever complained about. Thanks you clarifying, lol.

The ineffectiveness of the ad is probably the fault of AI, too, I suppose. It’s a dogshit ad by any marketing standard, anyway, and I can’t imagine the minds at the Whitehouse producing a non-AI ad of better quality, lol.

I’ll concede it’s good at pizza reheats. We don’t do that often but it’s much better than microwave and about the same quality but faster than oven.

Depending on the size, it might not be that useful for secondary dishes but that’s mostly cause mines just slightly too small for my standard casserole dish. At some point it’s just a mini convection oven, which I have used before for Thanksgiving and it’s admittedly a godsend (although I’d only borrow it. I very much do not have the space for one).

Mines also both sides heat, but I think it’s a little different still as only one side will have hot metal pressed against the bread. You get a little different taste/texture with both sides pressed against the hot metal. I suspect it’s also more energy efficient, too. Suffice to say it’ll still be S tier for the standard toast case.

Typo, or likely auto correct for FFXVI. Yup, was autocorrect, as it just did it again just now lol. I’ll correct it.

Reminds me of my own issue with parmesan cheese in things; I taste a vomit smell and just a little will make it bad to intolerable. I followed a recipe that added a sprinkle to a large pot of soup and to be the whole thing just tasted like vomit soup. My wife didn’t notice at all. I think I’m sensitive to butyric acid, the shared factor between the two.

I’ll use your stink bug example in the future when cilantro comes up, though, especially since so many people I know love cilantro and can’t imagine (and to be fair it’s very good without said gene, lol)

Beg to differ, I traded my S tier standard toaster for my dad’s toaster oven because he liked mine so much when I stayed with him during COVID times. The toaster oven is top notch but the added utility of preloaded toppings is offset by the counter top footprint. It also only really toasts one side properly.

The kicker is, most of the best applications are better done on a real oven. That’s how I do garlic bread, for instance. The only advantage is if I want to make something quick and sad, such as a pretend grilled cheese sandwich for the kids while I’m sick, I can slab cheese on each slice of bread and put them together at the end. Luckily little kids have no taste, so they don’t mind.

To be fair I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s already a vendor for that. They already kinda do that with Chromebooks at schools, and work computers are sometimes lent out to workers including those with beefy hardware. Doing it strictly for gaming wouldn’t be that much of a stretch lol

Really short article but kind of an interesting point. To be quite fair, the games don’t just take very long to produce but their appeal keeps shifting towards more adult themes so younger players might not even play them. FFXVI was basically Game of Thrones and prior to that you had… whatever the fuck FFXV was what with a road trip royal theme? Hell, even DQ12 was announced to have adult themes.

DQ spinoffs have a better shot but they haven’t been particularly good and FF spinoffs are money grabs, so there’s that too. The article points to more popular franchises in Japan like Pokemon, although at my kids are literally watching Pokemon TV designed for toddlers, that’s kinda cheating with how everywhere that franchise is, lol.

Honestly I noticed too but I kind of like it. You should have a font that offsets how incredibly depressing everything is.

Big difference in real life and lab based prisoners dilemma and I’m sure there’s a billion nuances, although most research is done in the lab. I’ve tried it a few ways, even lowering the stakes to choosing to do dishes or hoping your roommate does it and if no one does it you end up working twice as hard scrubbing, lol.

Interestingly, your last point is disputed in the literature… but not how you’d expect. Historically, research shows women more likely to comply due to societal reasons, but not when someone they know or care about is targeted. They’re more likely to choose competitive options on behalf of others, at least according to research. I don’t remember the studies themselves, though I could refer you to my courses OER textbook.

Here’s a slightly off topic fun fact for you, though. In replications of Milgrim’s shock experiments on obedience, women are much less likely to conform when hurting someone. Typically the OG found it to be upwards to 75% conformity, but the least confirming group? Australian women at 16%. These are the women you want when fighting fascism, lol.

Well, it’s supposed to be a matter of choosing cooperation over competition, but every time I have students demonstrate blindly they always cooperate- no one ever rats out the other. Granted they’re all women, which research shows are more cooperative on average, so I guess the takeaway is to always have female accomplices.

The emulators have always been in a gray area, since they can play illegal copies of games with illegally sourced bios, etc. The emulator itself is simply the tool, which on its own isn’t proof of piracy much like owning a bong isn’t definite proof you smoke weed… just very suggestive (it can be used for tobacco I guess?)

As for current vs retro gen piracy, they’re equally illegal but obviously criminalized differently. And the ethics are obviously complex, you have people who pirate who otherwise wouldn’t be able to pay, you have people who pirate for a convenient copy of something they already own, and maybe people who could pay but simply don’t want to (although research has suggested this isn’t a huge group). And since it’s digital, there isn’t a loss in the same way as actual theft.

Personally, I just like taking control of the hardware and tweaking shit. I belong mostly to the folks who download copies of things I’ve already “bought” (which is a licence in many cases, as they don’t sell physical copies). A good example is Pokemon Scarlet, which ran like dogshit on the original hardware. I’ve been meaning to try it in an emulator to see if it works better, although I haven’t bothered yet. Would that be considered immoral, given I own the game and several switches?

I managed to get mine to comply by singing a song each time. My oldest loves numbers so we sang-song counting to 20 (she was about to do that as early as 11 months, which was neat). Number two mostly cares about monster trucks so we sing about that, except with an interrupt to spread his legs for the last wipes.

He is this meme with his daycare, though, and is weirdly strong. He just started daycare and I’m told they need two people to restrain him during changes, which I’m kinda proud of in a way, lol.

Only $2500? I’ve heard it is quite a bit more depending on which for profit third party provider is handling the ambulances for your area.

Ten year olds on a journey to get all 8 badges kept disappearing on the island, so they decided to close the gym there.