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My favourite journalistic practice is when outlets lump up everyone playing video games into a single group called “gamers.”

Could it be the next Stranding type game?!

It’s deletorious to your health to be obese, so at the very least it is definitely a health hazard to the person. Making it illegal would be highly problematic though. How would you enforce the law? Would an obese person be forced by the state to go to a correctional facility? What kind of person would be classified obese?

Don’t be silly, for these types of people you can never make enough money.

Non-AMP link: https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2024/05/06/stellar-blade-sales-selling-out-in-one-country/

Things like Fat Acceptance and trying to normalize being obese are part of the issue. Being obese is not physically healthy and there should be appropriate social pressure to counteract that.

A better battery would be nice.

The way I see it, that number is a baseline figure for what their services would be offered for in exchange. If someone came up to me and said “here, I’ll give you $53 and in exchange you’ll let me surveil you for a year” I’d say no, but maybe someone else would’ve said yes. Then, as an experiment, maybe we can let the market take it from there, now that there’s a price and some form of discovery mechanism.

It’s like a picture book!

Get some people to write really passionately about moving off of it, apparently.

It is quite literally Taiwan’s constitutional vow and the opinion of every government theyve ever elected that they want to be part of China

I have to admit that I’m uninformed about this point of the RoC constitution. Could you point it out? For your convenience: https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=A0000001

Tsunami warnings have just been issued, up to 5m waves predicted in Ishikawa. Stay safe!

Probably because “installing unsigned code from an unknown source” is a mouthful. Installing implicitly means “from within the walled garden” on these devices.

Check out Spark: https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/examples/src/main/python/sql/basic.py

Last week, Japan said it would prepare to ship Patriot air defence missiles to the United States after revising its arms export guidelines, in Tokyo’s first major overhaul of such export curbs in nine years.

That’s alright then!

I don’t use public bidets, but the one I have at home I would say is critical to my quality of life.

The piracy bugbear has been raised as the reason why corporations aren’t selling enough since mp3 was invented back in the day. It isn’t always the case. OnlyFans is pirated but the piracy doesn’t affect their bottom line enough to drive them out of business. If you think about it, lots of pornography on the internet is free, and they’re still okay. It’s a much more nuanced discussion than “piracy is stealing” than the corporations want you to think it is.

Edit: if I had to guess, the niche they serve or the value they add on top of “just porn” is something their customers are willing to pay for.

If doesn’t kill you, it would make you very, very sick.

Takes a bit of getting used to, but Earth Defense Force 4.1 or 5.

It’s not even that good, I’d take a nice BLT over it any day of the week.