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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Payment processors, if left on their own, would take any money from any person for any reason. This is more to do with a patchwork of laws that are trying to snuff out anything "adult" and will absolutely sweep up every party even remotely involved in the transaction.

They're covering their own ass. It's cowardice, not righteousness.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Anyone who doesn't already have a favorite may be able to find one on Wikipedia's list of lists of lists.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

They were living in 2025 when they posted that in 2023. I don't think the stats software is the biggest story here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I had been meaning to start Game of Thrones, but hearing that the ending sucks kind of killed all interest for me.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

Saw it last night, and yes. Lex had more than one scene inspired by actual Musk actions.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Everyone's experience will be personal to them, so it's not anyone's place to say your experience isn't worse, but as a whole, things are better.

Crime, no matter the category, is down ~33% since the mid-90s.
Median household income, adjusted for inflation, is up ~25% (despite the narrative).

Here's a post/graph I think about all the time: https://bsky.app/profile/simongerman600.bsky.social/post/3ktds56nqus25

Regardless of age, we are generally nostalgic for a time in our youth. Or even earlier. Notice that something like half (or nearly so) of people think "the most moral society" was before they were born.

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A delicate native ecosystem is being ravaged to enable mass commerce. Spice = oil.

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He was born in 1946. The world came together to reject what he stands for before he was even born.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Absolutely essential for the full experience in a retro roguelike.

Usually repetitive and boring in 3D.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have they even said 'thank you' once for not dropping a nuke?

 

Abolish ICE

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[Steam] Metro 2033 Redux (store.steampowered.com)
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Free to keep if claimed in the next ~48 hours.

 

"One coder added at least two database entries that are visible on the live site and say “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.” "

 

For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine.

 
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Just because a 3060ti is technically capable of ray tracing doesn't mean I want you to keep turning it on every time the driver gets an update.

 

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold.

 

"Don't make a wrong move," the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. "Period."

The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject's thin wrists.

"Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts," the subject exclaimed.

The officer pressed his weight into the subject's small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old.

 
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