No issue there, though… If that is what’s happening, congestion pricing essentially added a tax on rich people, which is always desirable

In the mornings I’ll usually read news while enjoying a cup of coffee and a Zyn, too, forgot to mention that

Does finance count? I’m usually studying something in the alternative data space (that is, using non-financial data to make decisions on investments) so I can, in the end, make a presentation or deliver a product to someone. For example, an analyst decides to study a clothing company and asks me to scrape their prices in the main Latin American markets (because he thinks they can grow there or something). So I do that for a while and report back to him what I found. If it is interesting, I may be tasked with implementing something in our Excel add-in so he can plug that information into his own models, or I’ll need to develop a model myself.
Lots of spacing out, browsing lemmy and playing bullet chess on my phone, too

Your TV emits just as much blue light as your phone… It’s literally a screen, you’re not doing screens off

I feel there’s plenty of interest in other RPGs if you go outside the core community. I have never been remotely interested in playing DnD, so I never got a “real RPG gamer” group, because why play anything if you can run Curse of Strahd for the 100th time.
Well, it just so happens that I got my SO to play some Mothership duet sessions with me and it was great. Then some uni friends who were fans of LOTR to play The One Ring… And now I have an ongoing TOR 2e table and a passionate duet player looking to play more horror games (we’re starting Delta Green this week). The most common reasons for these people never having played RPGs? “Too many rules and stats” or straight up “DnD is too hard”.
We sometimes talk about DnD as some sort of necessary evil, but it’s honestly a hindrance. “Normies” get pretty excited about RPGs once they learn there’s more than a fantasy setting designed to be the lowest common denominator and sell miniatures

If the CRT works there are melee players that will buy it

No ads, apparently no bots, no reddit-style comments like “This.”, no corporation involved

Running the service itself over Tor is the only way to prevent local governments knocking on the admin’s door, though

Dogs are a hobby I would love to have but can’t. I would be able to care for a cat, though, but even then I’m allergic as hell and would probably die. I’m sticking to naming the jumping spiders that briefly take residence in my living room

Hard agree. Decentralization itself doesn’t really work against censorship, you need an additional layer of privacy, or, more ideally, anonymity. Is there a way of running a lemmy instance over Tor?

Marinating the hearts with limes and herbs is super good, too.
Yeah, feet turn a lot of people off because of the dirtiness and how messy they are to eat. Here’s more info: they are basically pure gelatinous skin with some juicy tendons, you eat them with your hands (at least in my family) to really get in there, and they taste however the broth as a whole tastes (I can’t imagine having them roasted)

Dobradinha: Brazilian caipira stewed beef intestines with beans. Really goes all the way with emphasizing the jelly texture
Chicken hearts: we eat them by the dozen but IME gringos don’t like them much
Chicken feet: love them plain caipira style but dim sum style is even better, especially the more spicy ones

AFAIK the algorithm for Kagi is really alien compared to Google and Bing/DDG, so the results do look a little weird at first, the main difference being just the sheer reduction in quantity of results.
But I guess if you didn’t like it, you didn’t. Maybe it is worse and I’m biased because I already paid

I know immigrants aren’t the issue, I’m not saying they are, I’m saying the host countries should fix their issues without relying on them. I’m not anti immigration, I’m just pro natalism, substituting locals for immigrants won’t work

Only from the perspective of the characters, though. To us it clearly existed in panels 3 and 4, prime for taking by any higher dimensional beings, that’s what I mean. It doesn’t mean the characters can will anything into existence, it means that time is just another dimension to travel through, and there are entities (that one slice of pizza for example) that travel backwards and forwards.
Another way of seeing this is that it would look equally alien to our 2 dimensional shadows when we pick something from our pockets, or turn something inside out, but it still makes sense to us 3d beings

Forgot to mention that it unfortunately is a US-owned company, so it would be off the table for the full-on US boycott crowd, especially because it’s a paid service.
Though they seem to be a genuinely good company that consistenly provides good customer support and improves the product in tangible ways. Privacy Pass was implemented because of customer feedback, for example, and so were crypto payments, and both were publicly discussed on the forums with good transparency. They also actively promote the decentralization of the internet: with that Small Web feature I mentioned, with Fediverse and Usenet Archives search being implemented by default, by providing an interface to use any LLM model through their assistant… So I wouldn’t want to boycott them, and I don’t

I’m not “othering” developing countries, I’m just stating a fact that the culture over here in the third world is way more conservative.
And the context now is not the same as the American immigration experience, and I wouldn’t even necessarily say that it worked out well over there. It’s cool to look at Irish and Italian immigrants right now, but then they were living in ghettos with raging criminality and the civil unrest caused by this ended up with e.g. the prohibition and Al Capone. These were the population bases that most resisted changes like implementation of divorce, abortion and gay marriage, as well.
But then the culture wasn’t even that different (protestant vs catholic), the american population wasn’t in decline, etc. Now it’s ultra developed, secular countries with an aging population, inviting immigrants from majority religious countries with thousand-year clashes with the local culture, to substitute their own working class. It’s just a recipe for disaster, with “the poors” being people that look, speak and believe completely alien to the local richer class, it’s really no wonder there is growing extremist sentiment in Europe

Can’t disagree here, this would be great

I see you have commented about those intentions a few times. I don’t know how serious you are about opsec, but in these times I would refrain from publicizing any violent intentions without at least being in a secure account I have only ever accessed via Tor, and I wouldn’t post personal stuff like cat pictures or mentions of any siblings in that account. Please, be safe

This is a pretty cool thought experiment. From our perspective, there is nothing about this that wouldn’t allow the comic to just keep going. Despite it being a “paradox” from the perspective of the characters, from ours it just is, and doesn’t look particularly nonsensical, just quirky. I wonder if that’s how an eternal/4th dimension being would see our history