Unix philosophy: never alert or stop the user from causing irreparable damage

Why?

No need to be pedantic. By digital release, I meant buying a copy for direct download off the internet, like you do with Steam or GOG. Many games prior to 2006 only ever had physical releases and were never sold in digital stores

The vast majority, yeah, but not necessarily all.

Factually speaking, only the debt is “generating” money, since the entire concept of bank loans reside in their capacity of lending more than they actually have and charging interest back.

Regarding nvidia and the companies it is giving money to so they buy its chips, lots of legal loopholes make it count as “totally real investment”. That’s why I said the thing generated said money in GDP, which has little connection to reality.

Probably hyperbole on mycodesucks, but the whole AI bullshit alone generated over USD 1 trillion dollars in GDP. USA’s GDP in 2024 was a bit under 30 trillion. Having like 8 companies account for 1/30 of the ENTIRE MONEY SPENT of a country is absolutely nuts, as well as a good reminder of how disconnected to reality GDP alone is.

Frankly, you’re better off playing on steam. Find a game, share the game name or link with friends, install, play together. There are plenty of free, multiplayer games there.

SteamDB offers a much better search than Steam itself, many useful filters on the right side - https://steamdb.info/tag/113/?category=1

There’s a saying in Brazil that “people vote with their belly”, usually as a derogatory for foor people voting for govt spending in social programs.

Another saying come to mind, “no democracy exists with empty bellies”, because anyone that is hungry or at risk will vote for whoever is more likely to ensure their survival. Another important thing to think about, everyone votes with their belly, with the well-fed wanting to stay that way

like roblox, like that it has its own marketplace and stuff, not just the old roblox client.

The way you describe it, you don’t want a “game”, but rather VRChat or Second Life, but focused on games rather than socializing

WELL WELL WELL, WHO COULD’VE PREDICTED SUCH A PREDICAMENT???

perhaps Microsoft’s senior execs need to read the room, sit down, and take some responsibility for the chaos they’ve unleashed on the world.

And come down from their ivory towers, see things from the same plane of existence as the serfs and plebeians that should be grateful for living under their shadow? Preposterous!!!

The most likely answer is no, and whether you even can install lineage depends a lot on the phone you have

Don’t worry, he’ll be promoted to a special position in Siberia

We can only convince so many people to ditch corporate social media. Convincing them to ditch their gmail is even harder. Convincing them that their amazon plus isn’t really worth it is a big fight that I’ve yet to win once

Rest in Pepperoni

We “live to work” because our corporate overlords demand that we be productive for production’s sake.

Regarding work before industrialization, it’s more complicated than that. Slavery was abolished in the 19th century, so a lot of people, especially enslaved Africans, were literally worked to the death and received severe physical punishment if they didn’t work properly. For free people, they didn’t have to do the amount of work we do in order to afford food safety, though “worker rights” didn’t exist for them, either. Abusive boss? Shut up and fuck off. Stolen pay? Too bad.

One of the biggest differences, however, is that people tended to socialize a lot more, and having friends to watch your back when things get hard is one of the best survival mechanisms. Out of food? Good thing my neighbor is willing to spare some of his while I fix some boards on his home. Maybe he’s not asking for anything in return this time because he feels like this is paying back for a favor I did 3 months ago.

Interesting fact: the first indigenous tribes that the Spanish enslaved once they started colonizing Central America were completely unprepared to the European work brutality forced upon them and would often kill themselves if being captured for slave labor was inevitable. Before that, they had never needed to work so hard to sustain themselves.

Complacency gets close, though I think it’s more for things where you don’t act when you should, and what OP described could almost count as sabotage - the difference between not increasing the range of an alert system (complacency) and taking it down, in both cases because “we haven’t had an alert in X time”

I guess we can expect some fire sales of used macs some 7-12 months from now?

unknownuser’s argument is that the boy couldn’t consent because he’d be surrounded by people telling him that the only way to be a leader is to take the ritual. The quote, verbatim:

The boy was told by everyone around him if he wanted to be a leader he had to do it, at an age where kids are pretty impressionable and also are dying to make an impression

If that’s all it takes to remove consent, then we might as well isolate every children from other people.

I sincerely doubt anyone in the group would be telling him “you should totally do it! It’ll be awesome!”, but rather that he better think twice before doing it and what to expect in the immediate aftermath of the ritual, not in a “you might feel” but in a “you will feel” way, because those stings are no joke. I wouldn’t be surprised if the boy even went so far as to take a single sting sometime before the ritual just to know how deep in shit he’d be.

Precisely. Yesterday, as I watched a tv program that recorded one of these tucandeira rituals, the pajé (spiritual leader) explained that the ritual was to prepare the children and adolescents for the pains that the world will throw at them, that if they want to be warriors, leaders and represent their people outside, they must be able to endure those and other pains.

The boy taking the ritual, which was from his own free will, no less, looked like he was 11yo; he endured to the end, possibly his first session. Too bad the show didn’t follow the day after the ritual

Can I get an american boyfriend to send me 2k dollars, too? I’ll take one that can only afford 1,999/mo, i’m not that picky