I miss a slide out landscape keyboard - but even Swype I feel like has gotten worse with time. I just can’t shake the feeling when I use it that I spend half my time or more deleting and trying again to get the words I want.

Smartphones. I used to have a Droid 4 with the slide out landscape keyboard, and that was peak mobile computing. I don’t care if Swype is better than it used to be, it’s no replacement for physical buttons - whenever I type anything more than a couple words long on my phone I spend like half the time deleting and retrying when it guesses the wrong word. Never had that problem typing with my thumbs.

Also, physical buttons make emulation doable on a phone in a way that on screen buttons and keyboards do not. Back when I had a physical keyboard I played games on my phone all the goddamn time - now I basically only use it as a web browser, because any other use case is painful in comparison.

I’m glad some qwerty phones are making a comeback, but they’re all in the portrait orientation which has always felt way too cramped to me. A Droid 4 with a modern screen/battery/processor would be my dream device.

I suggest a counter-scam. “I’m interested in your offer but first I need to see a credit report from this specific website…”

they were trying to install their choice rather than have an open selection process

I mean, that’s what happened with Biden, so it’s kind of a lateral move.

I don’t think Tarn has ever recoded to allow multi thread processing, so everything runs on a single CPU core (my info may be out of date)

Dwarf Fortress started adding multithreading last year along with an engine update. This is in large part to Tarn hiring outside help to work on the Steam release, and the game has never been better.

I also wanna say that the Steam version packages a full tutorial which will get you off the ground and also cleaned up a lot of the old game logic that was inconsistent and confusing (like how some rooms were “rooms” and others were “zones” and still others were “places”), and now I’d say that getting a base up and running is pretty intuitive since most things work just about the way you’d expect them to and it’s only “hard” if you intentionally make it that way by embarking on a dangerous biome or doing a challenge run.

You’ll still die a lot though, 'cuz that’s the fun part.

I didn’t say track, I said control access. I know my fellow Americans tend to bristle at the idea of doing anything for the common good, but I personally feel that the danger of unregulated media and internet access has been well demonstrated in the past hundred years, and that not regulating it in some capacity is just as negligent as not regulating firearm ownership or toxins in the food.

Either unrestricted access to the internet hurts children, or it doesn’t. If it hurts children, then we have a societal responsibility to protect them from it. “Good parenting” wouldn’t be able to protect kids from lead in the paint, so why would we expect it to protect them from other widespread harmful contagions?

Then enjoy all of the negative social outcomes of widespread internet addiction I guess.

National IDs, require an ID to connect, limit the hours for kids. Works in South Korea and China - sure it can be gotten around but that takes a certain amount of effort that isn’t worth it for the majority of the population.

After the collapse of the American-backed government in Afghanistan, China shrugged and opened diplomacy with the Taliban. I think they’ll adopt more or less the same attitude when America is taken over by a private military brought to you by MvDonald’s.

privatize military healthcare, cut back on disability and pensions

The military is already having major recruitment issues, if they do this recruitment might actually drop to zero.

Critical support.

As we all know, getting more militantly progressive because you see the repeated failures of the liberal worldview is exactly the same as getting more conservative because you own more property 🤡

True. I didn’t become a commie until I was almost thirty, young me was so idealistic.

tHeSe MeN wErE vIoLeNt TyRaNtS

The kulaks and the monarchists and the nazi collaboraters deserved it. Communists have been vindicated by history every single time.

AFAIK FF is implementing Manifest V3 so that those add on developers who are migrating to it don’t lose FF compatibility. As long as they don’t deprecate Manifest V2 for those that need it, ad blockers will continue to be usable.

This is mine too, I’ve got thousands of hours played and I haven’t even landed on most of the planets lmao

Religion is primarily a social phenomenon, so as long as people want to belong to a larger group then there will always be people willing to believe whatever non-falsifiable truths they need to in order to belong to one.

I can’t think of a better endorsement, tbh.

Your problem is that you’re working backwards. Is the “correct” price for youtube premium the US/EU price, and the rest of the world is getting a discount? No! Of course not! If that were the case then Google would be losing money on every single third world youtube user!

The “correct” price is something much, much lower, and the people in the most expensive regions are being gouged because they can afford it.