I joined up when Reddit decided to end third party apps. I mostly browsed the front page of Reddit for interesting or funny things, but I noticed once I switched to Lemmy that the Reddit front page was just sponsored content and what the algorithm wanted you to see. I was actually interested in stuff on Lemmy and that made me want to participate rather than just scroll the front page.

There was an economic study done between smokers and non-smokers to determine which were larger drains of social spending. The assumption was since smokers would be receiving more medical care due to their unhealthy habit, they would be a larger drain economically. The researchers found that smokers die so quickly that their healthcare costs and pension costs were much lower than non-smokers.

I don’t run a business but worked at a small company where the owner was the founder. He told me running a business is doing what you’re paid to do about 30% of the time and boring administrative stuff 70% of the time.

Because the devs planned on charging players $1.99 per save slot

It’s called the animal kingdom not the animal commune! Checkmate anarchists!

My understanding: Making emulators is legal. Valve helped produce Proton which is an emulator that runs Windows games on Linux (because their steam deck runs on Linux). Nobody is going to sue Valve for creating a way for people to play their Steam games on the steam deck.

Assisting people bypass copyright protections is not legal. Yuzu devs were sued for this reason, and not because they created an emulator. Nintendo had evidence of the devs working with pirates and helping people run known pirated software. They also were making a lot of money from doing this, which makes Nintendo’s claim even stronger since they can use that as proof of financial harm.

So long as devs only work on the emulator and do not assist people with running pirated games on it, they theoretically should be fine. Of course they could still get sued and I’m sure it’d be expensive even if it’s ruled they’re not doing anything illegal.

These are a dead giveaway that someone speaks English as a second language. You can tell right away because they never mix them up. Native speakers use whatever they’re hearts desire.

“Hey, you coming to the protest this weekend?”
“What is the protest about?”
“We haven’t decided yet.”

And his opponents got murdered

The majority of that is owed to the American people themselves and they receive daily interest payments on it. It is one of the safest forms of investment. Why wouldn’t that be tolerated?

It’s poisoning and drug overdose. I can only assume fentanyl is the reason for a huge spike in that area.

The modern day equivalent of this is including sound effects or a break in the music in the official youtube music video to prevent people from using yt-dlp to rip the audio directly to their playlist.

Hi deer can you open up your cloth?

I still don’t get why people spend money… there’s tons of it for free

There are free video games. There are paid video games. Why do people pay for video games if free ones exist?

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A modern day Diogenes

Reminds me of the episode of Peep Show where the main character, who’s a WWII history buff, goes to a WWII re-enactment and makes friends with someone who’s a little too into being a Nazi.

I said the same thing to my parents and they said “Well if you enjoy life, so will your children!” They were really stumped when I told them I wouldn’t exactly say I “enjoy” life.

In Canada we have actual hate speech laws, but even here burning a pride flag doesn’t count. You’d have to be publishing things that say something like “death to gay people”.

2. Never stand on the point. That’s where the enemy is expecting you to be!