MudMan

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What nobody is saying is that if you go into a test with a near-empty ink cartridge your hipsterism has outpaced your skill.

Refill that stuff going in or bring a second pen, you pleb.

That is most likely going to generate less revenue than promoting donations, or a comparable amount at best. WinRAR is the meme example.

From a PR and marketing perspective, if I wanted to maximize my revenue as a single developer I would set up a Patreon or encourage recurring donations through the software by providing bragging rights stuff (merch, insider access, early access to unfinished builds and so on). Single mandatory payments simply reproduce the piracy/license access of commercial software and shaming people into paying without coercion just makes you seem less appealing to people who would donate anyway.

I’ve been there exactly once in my life.

We were going to a place, which we could see in the distance, so we decided to walk there.

Half an hour walking later the place seemed to still be exactly as far away as when we started and our sense of reality was eroding significantly.

Like others have said, not the whole place is like that, but man, it IS kinda weird.

Right? I’m guessing this is a teenage thing and we the olds just don’t understand?

I mean, I keep track in the sense that I’m introverted enough to never, ever, ever call anybody socially unless I have a practical reason, but that’s why social media, group chats and extroverted people exist.

I’m curious about the details, yeah. Maybe they’re plugging into some API or something? Breaking some safety measure? Otherwise I really don’t see how these threats aren’t empty. Suing somebody for breaking EULA terms does not have a great track record, and neither does modifying things you buy or making unauthorized software for computers.

But hey, if the guy says the project is coming down, then I guess the aggressive language did the thing they wanted it to do, even if it’s relatively toothless.

There’s a bit of a hump you get over, though. I’ve been recently doing some long franchise-wide marathons and once I got into the groove it was surprisingly nostalgic. It recaptured that feeling of coming back from school and just playing games until I got called for dinner.

I do understand that when I lose that flow I REALLY lose that flow. Not sure if it’s age or distractions or what. All I’m saying is you can get it back and it does feel good when you manage it.

I want the record to show I didn’t even go with the top 5 most absurd Met gala outfits that came up when I googled, I was trying to keep it fair here.

Admittedly, if you were on some isolated area and this came off a boat you’d think you’re being invaded by aliens, too.

FWIW, our universal health coverage here will cover medical dental care, but not cosmetic. They’ll patch up or remove your bad tooth, but I think it’d be harder to get an implant or a crown without paying for it. Weirdly, dentists are still one of the two or three basic services where people here are still willing to pay for uncovered medical attention, the others being eyecare and pediatrics.

When I needed surgery my private dentist still sent me over to the public system, though. Took a look at my X-rays, told me she wasn’t gonna touch any of that without an MRI and an OR on standby and told me to go to my public doctor with a note and tell them to get me booked with a maxillofacial surgeon, which I did. It wasn’t that big of a deal in the end, but the reaction was… revealing.

Wine is spoiled grapes, all cheese is just milk you left out for so long it got dry and sausages are what happens when you disembowel a pig and stuff its guts with its own minced ass. Today I ate a thing that looks like the first draft of an Aliens facehugger they rejected for being too spiky.

People buy food so processed they forget we’re just gross hungry animals just putting random things in their mouths to see if it keeps them alive for a bit.

Man, I am so glad “anarchocapitalist” is starting to stick. I can’t believe they got away with the other word for as long as they did.

This. There is zero chance of creating change by voting for a third party selectively in a FPTP system.

Electoral systems are known to be extremely stable because all the power is in the hands of people who benefit from the current system, again by definition. Crucially, it doesn’t matter WHO they are, if they won with this system, they are for this system.

To get electoral reform you need those who benefit to find it either ethically important or politically expedient to enact reform. Right now is actually a good time to start bringing up that issue, because one has to assume there is a growing realization in Democrats and at least a segment of semi-reasonable conservatives that the current system is exposed to very, very bad things in a short timeframe.

So if the US is going to get electoral reform done without going through the process of setting the country, and subsequently the planet, on fire you need a) a Dem in power, and b) a massive consensus and outright downpour of activist pressure for this on every level of government. Probably forever, seeing how the entire rest of the system is a mess, but baby steps.

I can’t imagine anybody in the US would advocate for the nonsense in the OP above ruthlessly, relentlessly campaigning for this instead.

It’s like they’re cosplaying at politics.

How to make that relevant again: Get a time machine.

The fascists are already on the ballot, in case anybody missed that detail.

I swear, this stuff barely played back when it seemed like an idle concern of the politically inclined. Today it seems entirely detached from reality.

But hey, by all means, absolutely get the kind of reform that would make this make sense again. I want a world in which this thread doesn’t feel like either disingenuous trolling, a conservative psyop or entirely delusional. I want a world where Americans can vote for multiple parties and get proper coalitions and stuff.

But seriously, until that point, just vote for whoever the Democrat is.

They take away the ability to include links in video descriptions. That’s still not related to watching videos, but it seems like a legit eff you to small content creators.

Turns out when you stop using it the recommendations become more and more unhinged and take on a slight pleading tone.

It’s weird and kinda satisfying to watch, honestly.

Incidentally, I dropped Youtube’s web app like a rock when they started messing with adblockers and today they emailed me to say they’re cutting down features in my account because “I don’t have enough of a history”.

I swear, these decaying tech firms just don’t get the value of not appearing to be flailing in desperation.

See, for me it’s often the other way around. Wtih the usual suspects we’re often just in each other’s ears for a while and moving around to get a coffee or even just pacing up and down to stretch our legs. It’s the outside-facing stuff that requires the face time.

That depends on your business, I suppose. Either way the audio only stuff is definitely the better choice IMO.

I have to use cameras just out of politeness and I also do a bunch of audio only calls and frankly the video calls are much more stressful and often less productive.