Hegar

Quick check of the post history shows nothing but vitriol and unrealistically black and white thinking. Classic signs of depression.

I hope things get better for you, but in the meantime you’re an easy block.

the operation is highly organised, technically savvy

Of course an operation this sophisticated targets people looking to buying luxury brands for cheap, that sounds like an ideal mark.

I personally believe that preserving a false and misleading picture of reality designed to trumpet a deranged cult that is working to make the world objectively worse for everyone including themselves is not acceptable.

I would say, “Look mum I love you more than anything in the world but preserving some of these movies crosses an ethical line for me.”

Of course I grew up in a house of atheist jewish academics, so making and justifying personal ethical stances that contravene wider group stances is expected behavior in my family. And we take document preservation fairly seriously.

That code is to computer porn as the Hunt the Wumpus is to computer games.

“Because” often doesn’t make sense in the real world where anything that happens is the sum total of multiple factors. Especially a trend as broad as enshitification.

Being publicly traded seems like a contributing factor, but a sole owner can still enshitify through greed or incompetence.

I would guess that market consolidation and low competition are more of a factor.

How’s that normal?

Because English is an important international language. It’s the most spoken second language - the language most spoken by bilingual people.

In some places it’s tied in with status - a lot of universities regularly use English titles on non English language content, for example.

It helps a bilingual audience find videos in both English and their native language with the same search.

And I bet it helps with SEO which probably means that an English title can increase your income.

The incredibly inconsiderate inconvenience of having to click the next video?

I’ve run into this issue a lot while looking into Indian history and archaeology and it has never bothered me in the slightest.

Why do some people seem so offended by briefly hearing a language they don’t understand? You clicked a video that turned out to not be what you wanted. That’s gonna happen.

Yep, false positives are a problem for a dead man’s switch.

Two weeks without being able to get internet access or word to a friend is definitely possible but seems pretty unlikely.

You could make it more than 2 weeks out but I think that’s a good middle ground between avoiding false positives and striking while the iron is hot, you know? Imagine sending an email beginning “if you’re reading this I’m dead…” and having recipients think “Yeah, that was ages ago.”

I always thought it was just like an email set to future send in say a week or 2, then every few days or every week you go in and bump forward the date.

I always heard a Dead Man’s Switch defined as a switch which goes off once you stop pressing it. So you just set up something to go off in the future, then for as long as you’re alive you keep preventing it from going off.

"This is stealing and needs to be looked at that way,” said a property owner

😂

Being murderous and full on genocidal are two different things.

Yep! But committing genocide almost always requires murder so it’s appropriate to use either term when describing countries.

no clue, or sources to back it up

I’m still not sure what you want a source for? That countries commit genocide? I mean the news and also every history book is the source for that. I was born in Australia, we genocided countless indigenous nations. I live in the US, ditto. North and south of me are Canada and Mexico. Ditto. Destroying other peoples has been one of the main reasons to have a state. We have so many monuments from early states glorifying their genocides.

Regurgitating shit… just because you feel like it …isn’t the flex

I’m still not clear what you think it is I’m saying.

To be clear, my point was that as brutal and horrific as Israel’s actions are, it doesn’t make sense to shun every individual citizen of that country.

You often hear people say that all countries are brutal genocidal death machines when they are trying to defend their country? Being a brutal genocidal death machine is not a defense, it’s a damning indictment of how flawed a country is.

I’m not clear on what you wanted a source for. That countries are murderous?

Yeah that works for me but it feels like a shift in position from shun residents of this one country to abolish all countries.

I’m in favor of the latter which for me makes the former seem pointless and arbitrary.

If we’re burning passports and refusing to talk to anyone whose country has committed brutal genocide it’s going to be very lonely and smokey in every country.

Omfg EV was so good, I’d forgotten all about those games!

I downloaded some freeware 3d rendering software to make ships for mods, learned what sprites were, and spent so much time using resedit.

Damn that was a great series of games.

except the mouse has effectively infinite lives.

Thats basically how rodent ecology works, already, isn’t it? Being an r strategy reproducer is pretty much just speccing into unlimited respawns.

A rich right wing lunatic (but I repeat myself) in Australia had a 45m ad for his vanity political campaign. A friend of mine sent a screenshot.

you can skip the “we exist” and “look here to find us” parts of the pitch and spend time and effort on the community itself instead.

Thank you for stating that so clearly!

Plus there are plenty of subs that strongly benefit from the population size or promence of reddit - very niche interests, smaller city or town subs, etc.

And there are some subs where the archive of past material is a huge drawcard - for example AskHistorians which is almost certainly the best single reason for reddit existing and the best modded sub I know of.