PonyOfWar

I’ve moved far away (500m+)

A whole 500 meters?! That could almost be another street :p

Exploitation of earth’s resources and ecosystems with a complete disregard for the future.

Check out the Bas-Lag novels by China Miéville. Lots of strange and interesting creatures and cultures in those books. Each of them is standalone but they take place in the same world.

It means that we’re 4 days into July. Probably some more heatwaves ahead.

Pursuant to Section 7(b) of the License you must retain the original Product logo when distributing the program. Pursuant to Section 7(e) we decline to grant you any rights under trademark law for use of our trademarks.

Am I understanding this correctly that you can’t remove the logo, but you also aren’t allowed to use it as it’s their trademark? So creating a legal fork is essentially impossible?

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Absolutely. Not buying from China is an impossible task for electronics anyway and I’d welcome some competition in the memory market.

It’s mostly because “that’s how the ancestors did it”. In many parts of Europe, the system for last names used to be (and still is in some places) something like “son of [father’s name]”, which wouldn’t really make sense to put first in speech. In other cases, things like place names or occupations were used to identify someone, so something like “George the Smith”, which would only slowly be formalized into family names and become “George Smith” in the middle ages. The word order was just kept as it was. On the other hand, in China, family names were introduced by imperial decree about 2000 years ago, to facilitate census data and bureaucracy. For that purpose, it makes sense to put them first, as that’s how you do it when organizing them into a table. That Chinese practice would have spread to other parts of Asia etc.

Some variety of a so-called Pig Butchering Scam.

Nope, but I wasn’t planning to buy one even before the price announcement. I have a solid upper-midrange PC that easily outperforms the Steam Machine and I also have it connected to my projector for living room gaming. Aside from having a neat design and formfactor, a low-spec PC with limited ports that I can’t really upgrade just isn’t appealing to me.

In that particular case, I think the message format might have been an issue. I personally always find audio messages very inconvenient, as I’m not going to annoy everyone around me by listening to them in public. So I’d plan to listen to them later, but I might have forgotten about the message entirely by the time I got home. By the next time I remember the message, it could be an inconvenient timing again etc. A proper text message is almost always preferable.

Which countries have beaten egoism?

I’m also confused. I’m on the main furry instance, and it looks like there was one NSFW-image posted locally within the last 7 days.

That definitely makes sense.

I can’t help you with finding those votes, but as someone who’s gotten similar bans 3 times now: You’ve probably just downvoted a couple posts by a mod and they got annoyed. That’s how it’s been every time for me, a low single-digit number of downvotes was enough to be a “serial downvoter”. Ultimately, I’d ask myself whether it’s even worth it to appeal those bans. Do you really want to participate in a community run by mods who do that kind of thing?

Never heard of the other one, but Saily is one of those brands that gets pushed by sponsored Youtubers so much that it automatically makes me suspicious. Basically, this comic.

Seems like a major hassle for the builder to have to lug home 50 sacks of grain, which they’ll then have to try and barter for something else. If only we had an abstract representation of value that’s portable and universally accepted…

There’s a reason that pretty much every complex society moved away from it: it doesn’t scale. It works fine enough for a small tribe that produces basic things like food and clothing. It doesn’t work for an industrialized society of millions of people where production of things like electronics requires hundreds of different resources and production steps.

Subtitled, unless I watch it with family members who all prefer dubbed. I actually rewatched Frieren recently, this time with the German dub, and was surprised at how good it is (even if the German character/place names become even weirder in that version).

I think this is pretty key. If the topic ever does come up and OP will use that line, it might not go over so well. Showing disinterest in politics may be a good survival tactic in Russia, but in the West many people will understand it as not wanting to publicly admit your support of Putin.