…are you implying that mass gas chambers aren’t an effective way to kill people?

The way I see it, it’s just a form of therapy. People don’t walk in and sit silently, they talk about their problems and get vague reassurance that everything is going to be alright - or occasional advice when they’re way out of bounds

I don’t think it’s unethical to do that, so long as you operate in good faith with good intentions

Sure, you can do that. It’s obviously on you to figure out how you want to do it, but that’s exactly what no DRM means

And I don’t mean it’s technically possible, you can backup the game files through steam and put them on a flash drive, and there you go

But it’ll probably show 3 orders of meatballs, and she saw him get 3 meatballs. He just has to keep her from looking too closely

Oh, it works… It turns the group against the kid. They may or may not attempt to police the behavior, but they won’t do it effectively. They will resent the kid though

And isolated kids are famous for being obedient

Wait, our hat has oil? Eagle screech intensifies

Would you give a few hundred dollars and couple dozen hours of learning? Because this is a very achievable goal

Oh no, you’re not signing your life away. You’d be dead

You’re signing away the right to get any justice for those you care about

I like watching stream highlights, occasionally I’ll watch one live. But they’re generally pretty boring, even as background noise - they’re on there for hours at a time

I don’t think the relationship itself is bad, but it’s a relationship between you (massively plural) and an individual. It’s like being part of a crowd. I get that people like it, but I don’t get much out of it

Honestly, wouldn’t this work? So long as the proteins aren’t denatured, they should still work in your stomach

So blended raw liver bombs it is

You guys are circling around the answer

Aero looks, better menus (I refuse to believe nested drop downs are peak layout, but ribbon stuff looks pretty, at the cost of useful organization)

And finally, make it look good in dark mode. We aren’t a print-first culture anymore, and I prefer my retinas intact

Yeah, but like, everything is like that. The fact your not falling through the floor requires a similar explanation. The fact you can see requires a far more complex one

I remember a flashlight I had, where you could remove the reflector. I could see the little sunbeams coming off them, and I told my friend maybe I wanted to study light. He told me it’s just photons… Which later in life I realized says nothing, but at the time totally killed my enthusiasm

Magnets make sense to me though. Maybe since I’ve been playing with them since i can remember - maybe I can’t see or feel a magnetic field naturally, but I can feel it holding a magnet. Magnets make sense - they’re weird, but they make sense.

Light doesn’t… Our understanding of it is so clearly wrong, but sure let’s pretend it’s normal for something to be a wave that turns into a basic unit of energy when you look too closely. The universe loves inconsistency, right?

I’m sorry, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Could you explain it in assembly?

Yes, the fact you explained it, as well as formatting it in a spoiler for those who want to think it over a little longer (like me), made me feel slightly happier

To be honest, I don’t remember the original post at the moment, but I remember that you explained a post in a way that made me feel appreciative that you’re on the platform. I want to be the kind of person to express that.

That’s the person I want to be, and I’m glad that you are who you are

I like that you bothered. Good on you

Embracing lack of meaning is nihilism talk!

Take in existence as it comes and laugh at the absurdity of it all

Nope, apparently you can get screwed by RNG, but you were in control. I don’t remember it being particularly hard either

It’s structural - you can be open or locked down, and it’s hard to decentralize if you’re not open

You can make it easier or harder to work with that data, but ultimately it’s obsfucation - you could make it hard to parse and obscure details, but ultimately if you want decentralized federation you can’t hide too much

I just remember the day, as a software dev with a solid understanding of Blockchain, my older dev neighbor started explaining how NFTs worked

I thought he was confused or stupid or something.

“Wait, so like you have these super rare images, proof you own it on a Blockchain, and a link to the place they’re all publicly hosted?”

Him: “Yep”

“And the only use for these right now is as a profile picture?”

Him: Shrug, “yeah, people use them for discord and stuff”

“But… Couldn’t you just download the image and use it anyways?”

Him: “Yeah, it’s all publicly hosted”

And it was about then my brain locked up. I did multiple hours of research later, sure I had to be missing something

I used to think that data was easily preserved, so clearly it’d be around for future generations

I no longer think this to be true - not without extensive work to keep it alive