Note: a few of the more authoritarian ones moved to the breakaway state of Transnistria.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to spread misinformation. Nothing in the OP is dangerous (that I know of). I thought we were doing a shitpost-y rehash of the cow-based versus plant-based leather argument you see online sometimes.

Specifically, plant-based leather normally is plastic, but then over 90% of cow-based leather is chromium-tanned so it doesn’t naturally decompose (cross-links the collagen fibers). In a recent study, 82% of cow-based leather products sampled from southeastern China contained more than the EU regulatory limit for CrVI.

The argument being that, between that poor disposibility of the overwhelming majority of cow leather and the relatively enormous amount of resources that go into making it (raising the cow, slaughterhouse, tannery (esp. toxic runoff for the latter)), citing the environment as a justification to dunk on vegans for using plastic-based leather reflects a narrow understanding of cow leather’s impact on the environment.

Listen, okay, over 90% of your oh-so-“natural” hedgehog-based pencils are dyed with carcinogenic chromium (pictured in the OP as the yellow color) and act as an environmental contaminant when thrown away. At worst, it’s a lateral change to use plastic.

What did you think the other “part of this complete breakfast” was if not companionship?

It is imperative that the cylinder remains unharmed.

Disgusting. This is why I only use ethically sourced mechanical pencils.

Alright, let’s just ignore the containerization because of the problem Valve creates by making you open Steam when you play games you paid for. It’s just 64-bit for the runtime, not even the client itself. It’s 2026. I’m not going to act like this is noteworthy or an accomplishment.

You recall correctly. It’s another one of Canonical’s attempts to shoehorn their trash.

Are you butthurt that I called it a monopoly because it is one? Its status as a “benevolent monopoly” doesn’t make it not a monopoly; its competitors’ incompetence doesn’t make it not a monopoly; competition existing doesn’t make it not a monopoly; that it’s not an illegal monopoly doesn’t make it not a monopoly.

Its incredibly stable and enormous market share, which is deeply entrenched because you don’t own the games you buy there and can’t bring them elsewhere, makes it a monopoly. The unhealthy amount of power Valve wields over the PC gaming market is exemplified when people panic over what’ll happen when Gabe Newell dies and fear that Valve might e.g. go public. Not because that’s extremely likely, but because that would be catastrophic to the PC gaming scene.

The point of pointing out that Valve is a monopoly is that they have functionally no real competition to worry about; they have all the leeway in the world to improve their client, so I’m not going to clap like a seal when the container for the software gets 64-bit support in the year of our lord 2026.

That it’s weird for Valve’s client to be running inside a container?

My other software isn’t containerized that I know of. I don’t run Firefox in Docker.

It’s 2026. An experimental version of Steam’s runtime container – a very normal thing for your very functional software to have – is now 64-bit. This is worthy of praise somehow for a multibillion-dollar corporation whose only real job is to do bare minimum maintenance of its storefront and rake in 30% of profits from its monopoly.

Glad to know where the bar is.

☝️🤓 umn ackshually, “pedophile” comes from the Ancient Greek “παιδοφίλης” (“paidophĭ́lēs”), and if you were to construct this in Latin, it would be “paedophilus”. Also ☝️🤓, AI slop didn’t exist in Ancient Rome.

And it’s still better than the hoops we gotta jump through to sideload on iPhone.

The fact that iOS is a joke doesn’t make this any better, and there’s no such thing as “sideloading” outside of corporate FUD; it’s installing perfectly goddamn normal software on your goddamn device that you goddamn own. I didn’t “sideload” Firefox onto my desktop. “Yeah, bro, I just sideloaded Hades II.”

(About 110 MPa)

People this willing to let a self-enriching corporate nanny state erode their ability to use the products they paid for terrify me.

People this willing to fall for the blatant corporate strategy of “We’ll announce something unthinkable but then backpedal to something “only” terrible (and then probably do the unthinkable thing later now that we’ve encroached further and softened the blow)” for the millionth time confound me.

Show some dignity; jesus christ. This isn’t a “compromise”. Me breaking into your house, threatening to kill you, but then “only” hitting you with a bat and leaving isn’t a “compromise”.

and I was going to buy it before I realized that the text was nonsensical.

Insular Americans not even able to recognize Dutch smdh

Happiness is fundamentally transitory and unsuitable for a goal

Oh, yeah, sorry, I didn’t mean to imply “don’t treat happiness as an expectation; treat it as a goal!”, because like you said, it’s fundamentally incompatible with what a goal is. I like to consider the SMART criteria, and even though it fails all of them (except ‘T’ if you insist you have a deadline to be happy), it fails ‘A’ the hardest, because a goal as such is literally defined by how it’s oriented toward taking an action. Even if you think your goal is “I will be happy by doing X today”, then – as long as you think you can do X and have a plan – what you actually have is the goal “I will do X today” with the faulty, tacked-on expectation of “and that will make me feel happy”.

Zero expectations leads to rotting if you’re down already.

“Expectations” are different from “goals”. One of the easiest paths to chronic unhappiness is to treat happiness as an expectation.

Sailors on the Gay of Hormuz always bring lube.

Too vague.

• How much time between waves?
• Can I leave one first-grader “alive” to indefinitely recover at the end of a wave? Or can defeated members of a wave re-enter the fight if they have long enough to recover?
• Do I get regular meal and sleep breaks assuming it goes on long enough?
• How aggressive are they?
• Is the attack coordinated? Like did they have time to prepare?
• What does the arena look like?
• What constitutes being finished beating one of them up?
• Do I have to worry about taking it too far?