So wait.

You get charged a cleaning fee if you puke in someones car… but uber wont give the cleaning fee to the driver, you know…the person who has to have their car cleaned?

I’m sorry that you are only now just learning that government can be stupid and myopic

Thats on the base assumption that your local municipality wants a healthy nightlife.

Which is a brave assumption to make.

assuming you have a public transit system that operates at night, and is worth a damn.

I know there are places where buses stop running long before the bars close.

all this does is make me wonder why game rental stores are illegal in japan when movie rental is, from what i’ve seen in the past, perfectly legal

EDIT

Cause rental stores made bootleg copies to rent out, and often sold the software/hardware to copy the games as well… which irked the game companies which made the government crack down

a king sized snickers costs 3 bucks.

this candy bar is a deal compared to that, lol.

edit: I’m wrong, that says 2 Bars on the edge, not 2 pounds (why is lbs short for pounds anyway?!)

I would not be surprised if they used minecraft for it, which is why I had my initial concern/question.

Its probably got a larger install base than any non-corporate microsoft product outside of an OS. Which would make it a fantastic snooping tool

public flaying?

No, no… Blood Eagle.

was about to make a similar post.

Stop building the invasive bullshit, or we start building guillotines.

i wish my situation was that understandable, for me the other side is mostly just “I have nothing to hide, why should I care and upend everything because of it??” and the fact there is no real viable alternative that gives you even most of the stuff that discord does.

thats a big i’unno. depends on the chips, the controllers, the usage of the drive, etc.

personally, usb sticks are basically a commodity consumable (especially if you get them at the sweetheart size) and i don’t consider it wasteful to replace them after 3-5 years if you are doing anything remotely important with them.

but if you just have them for transfering files from one PC to another in your own house, where a loss won’t be catastrophic, just a mild perturberance, then use it till it physically doesnt work anymore

USB/Flash memory is not an archival storage medium. It is far to volatile, so as long as you are not using USB sticks as an long term archive for precious, irreplaceable documents/data, it shouldnt be a big deal to you.

Flash memory will self-erase if left idle/unplugged for a long enough time.

Mechanical hard drives can be archival, but you cant just load them up with data and shove them in a closet… They need to be hooked back up and spun up every month or so, to keep lube moved around and keep platters and arms freely movable.

dumptrucks of money.

Which is why sigourney weaver kept making aliens movies

Motherfucker even my own teeth don’t fucking blind me and I wash my teeth.

Maybe you should try brushing instead.

Because theres lots of bad therapists out there that pollute the field and give it a bad name.

There are absolutely good ones too, but they are very hard to find under the best of conditions, much less when you are at the lowest of lows and desperately searching for a hand to pull you up.

I’ve also ended up in that hole. Desperately reached out for help, and found a therapist who was glad to take my money, hinted at disbelieving science, and ultimately spent every session fluffing their own ego and not discussing my issues at all, until the end of the last session, where she finally realized i was there and said “oh, btw, you’d just get better if you stopped being a heretic and accepted god already”

Its hard to self advocate when you are at the lowest of low, much less try to go through all the headache, paperwork, cost and hastle of starting over again with another one who could be just as bad.

And even if you manage to find a good therapist, Theres a chance that the technique/approach they use might not mesh with you and help you. So now you have to find another therapist, thats good, and uses a different technique.

Its really fucking hard to do at your absolute best mental health state, much less at your deepest and darkest.

i want to stop using discord, but some important people to me refuse to leave it and its my good point of contact/talking with them, sadly.

can microsoft still throw a GDID on a linux machine if you sign into a microsoft account while on linux? maybe not as powerful as on windows, but still as a unique identifying cookie or something?

And if buying isnt owning, that means you’re paying 70+ dollars to rent a game that can be taken away from you at any time… with no refund or recourse.

Would anyone be stupid enough to rent a game for 70+ dollars? especially under those conditions?

sounds like you are hitting every point for talking face to face and avoiding an online replacement.

do we? do we even need nextdoor?

If i wanted to talk to my neighbors, I’d go outside and do it.