And so the world waits in anxious trepidation as a small cadre of disengaged but incredibly fickle voters in the sun belt and upper midwest decide the fate of humanity.

Have you gazed into an abyss long enough to have the abyss gaze back into you, without becoming endlessly lost in said abyss? Congrats, you’re now team lead on the abyss project.

Dizziness
Increased blood pressure
Increased heart rate
Nausea
Vomiting

Shit I might die

Anxiety
Panic attacks
Paranoia
Hallucinations
Short term memory impacts

Damn I might think I’m dying (and maybe not even remember)

Time distortion
Sleepiness

I mean… what would you trade for a superpower and a good night’s sleep?

Are there any instances of a 3rd party making digital copies of games available and paying some licensing fee back to the copyright holders? Something akin to how book libraries handle ebooks?

Maybe Steam falls in this category a bit, but I’m thinking something more exhaustive and focused on games that are otherwise out of production.

Some of the companies involved that are mentioned in the article:

• Service providers (Comcast, Charter, Cox)
• Entertainment (Disney, AMC, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery
• Those connected to advertising (Google, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Vizio, the NFL)
• Home security (ADT)

😏

I also sorta had a moment of perhaps morbid curiosity about this one.

Do they simply have an extraordinary sense of entitlement? A strong belief that getting ahead means being clever about working the system? A philosophical commitment to fringe ideas of what it means to be a person in society?

Or are traffic citations that much of a nuisance that you’ll do anything to get out of them? A lot of the posts I see here seem to focus on transportation / driving.

Wow, today I learned. Thanks for sharing.

This would mean that there was more uranium around millions and billions of years in the past so why isn’t there any evidence of prehistoric nukes in the fossil record

I’m not sure I get it.

As another comment said, I also dropped everything and read the article. So yeah I guess that’d mean Streisand effect is coming into play.

Regarding the topic at hand: I don’t care what these companies say at this point. The fact is that in the past, I have used their services, clicked the “free” button, did some things, and then ended up having to pay them money.

Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, “Here’s how much you paid in taxes, if you’re cool with that then please disregard”, I will not be satisfied.

And then you go to Settings / Privacy / Data and all you find is a link to the privacy policy and terms of service.

So you search online and find several relevant posts on a support forum, such as:

• I cannot find this setting
• The “on” option is grayed out
• I tried to set this to “on” but I got a cryptic error message saying to contact my system administrator

All of them have been open for at least a year, hundreds of users clicked the “I also have this issue” button, and none of them have any useful replies.

The player character may try to quickly skip through dialog they’ve already heard, so if they interrupt you, just pick up on the next sentence you were going to say.

In some engines, the player character may also be able to walk away mid-dialog. If this happens, feel free to continue talking while they’re still within earshot, or berate them.

Klan.

I don’t care the intent or the season or the laws or the lulz. You wear a white fucking sheet to a polling place in a southern state, it looks like the fucking Klan. Fuck them.

Side note: dang, you can do what now? I wonder how people have me labeled…

I really do wonder if the first thought to cross my mind after witnessing the beginning of an irl avengers-level threat will be “wellp at least I don’t have to go into work”.

Sphygmomanometer

I’m just guessing here, but I imagine it’s for “marketing purposes”. People sometimes (perhaps often) move around without changing their phone number, so area code alone wouldn’t be enough to pinpoint where you live.

Knowing where you live probably helps with micro-targeting ads.

I’d say those aren’t my pronouns, but how would you know whether or not to believe me?

Not gonna lie… the headline got me to finally get around to donating.