It’s a hyper loop!

Definitely worth it even without the community patches!

I did heighten the phrasing for comedic purposes. I mean essayists like Lindsay Ellis ;)

I want to add that the box office income is simply one of the only objective metrics to compare the success of films.

The first time I saw a bag like that, I was shocked as well. Seems like just the worst idea to use plastic to create tea bags. Turns out it is and they weren’t made out of plastic. It’s a starch based fiber that is biodegradable. I don’t think you could have plastic tea bags here in the EU in any case. I’d wager yours isn’t plastic either. Yeah, so you probably got mildly infuriated over nothing, just like I did the first time I saw one of these 🤷

But the original Ghost in the Shell is perfect! I just rewatched it this weekend and it still looks amazing! Why remake that?

The revolutionary part is -get this- to use the empty houses -you following?- to house the people who don’t have houses! Genius! We truly are living in the future!

You can install a browser addon like “I don’t care about cookies” to automatically close these.

If your games are on steam, you’re already not owning them. The only difference seems to be that steam doesn’t demand a monthly subscription cost, yet

We already have game pass so it’s not like this is something completely new either.

If this makes money, other big publishers will join and in 10 years it’s the norm.

Personally, I’ll try my best to keep buying on GOG and itch.io where I get to actually own my games.

Absolutely, here is the part for the lazy:

I should add that, for all her cheerleading of gen Z, Foster isn’t above being irritated by them. “They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace. They’re like, ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10.30am.’ Or, like, in emails, I’ll tell them this is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling? And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’”

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+1 for Linux Mint

Yeah, the sequel was a real splatter fest

That’s an easy block if there ever was one.

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

I don’t think that holds true quite as much today as it did back when Voltaire said it. He was calling out authoritarian structures like the christian church if I remember correctly. While certainly still true in totalitarian systems like dictatorships, it’s a somewhat different situation in democracies for example. In a democracy you are generally allowed to criticize anyone. However, powerful entities like big corporations and the very rich might still abuse the system to sue you into oblivion.

Also this quote gets misused quite often by people who do not understand the difference between hate speech and criticism and by people who think being called out and criticized for their words is the same as being “not allowed to criticized” or silenced.

“By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” - Umberto Eco

For me it’s one of the main cast of Samurai Champloo. Afaik it’s Japanese and means infinite.

Probably because there is less content

I thought the content will still be available on the other instances that were federated before the instance went down.