Schadrach

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[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Short version is that for the most part forum moderation for each game is left up to the devs or whoever they appoint, and users can create user groups and curators without much if any restrictions and they don't particularly give a shit what content the game you want to sell has. The only real exceptions are if it's illegal in the US, which applies to very little (for example no CSAM).

I find it interesting that the federal government threatening a private entity with legal repercussions if it doesn't restrict the speech of it's users isn't such an obvious violation of the first amendment that lawyers aren't climbing over each other to fight this one.

And if you don't see the problem with it, imagine we agree that the federal government should be allowed to restrict what expression can go on on internet platforms content-wise, then imagine Trump and his cronies deciding where the borders lie. They already want to revive the Comstock Act.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

Meh, I liked Devos' Title IX policy changes. Even if over half of it was "some guy sued a college over due process and the college lost, let's bake the decision into formal policy" and most of the rest was just firmly establishing who does what and obvious basic fairness things.

That's basically the only thing Devos did that I liked, but it's slightly better than nothing!

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 days ago

The President and Legislature are elected at the federal level. All the various major executive branch figures below that are appointed by the President, and at best require the Senate to approve them. Most aren't as ridiculous in their picks as Trump, but he's a narcissistic megalomaniacal buffoon so he has to ensure to himself that's he's surrounded with people who are well known and popular (hence why he seems to be mostly picking based on media experience rather than anything pertinent, save a couple of Project 2025 authors and Tulsi Gabbard) but that he can see himself as above and will stroke his ego by affirming that.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 3 days ago (3 children)

He appears to be picking people from one of three lists:

  • Republicans with media experience (aka people he knows from TV or social media).
  • Whoever wrote the relevant section of Project 2025.
  • People accused of being Russian assets (mostly just Tulsi Gabbard at this point, but there's a reason she's going to be in charge of foreign intelligence and it's not for our benefit).
[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago

It would do more to drain the swamp than anything Trump had ever imagined.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ghee or clarified butter, both of which

I thought ghee was clarified butter?

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ou can also get packs that include oil, kernels, salt, and butter powder that come out like theater popcorn and taste great (included some in the link above).

Mmmm, bronchiolitis obliterans. Being serious, the common name for the disease is "popcorn lung" because it was first identified in a microwave popcorn plant and it's caused by inhaling certain chemicals often used in flavored popcorn.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder how the two compare in terms of repair-ability.

So long as you have at least two, horses conveniently produce additional horses which makes repair-ability less of an issue. You simply eat the broken horse, if possible.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

there’s a simple reason for that: You can’t leave your horse for hours on a parking spot. You can tie it up somewhere maybe, but not for a long time, there aren’t many places fit for leaving horses nowadays.

This is why you just need to move somewhere with a significant Amish population first. Like, significant enough that local infrastructure plans around them.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because a carrier's data on you is not your person or belongings. The companies holding this data are selling access to it, so it's not being searched, it's being offered.

In other words, the same reason as why they don't need a search warrant if there's a breaking and the business across the street volunteers their security camera footage, even if you're on that footage.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago

instead of blocking advertising data, we should embrace it IMO.

imagine a world where users shove so much information at these tools that they can't even tell what's real or not. camouflage works better when everyone participates.

There's an ad blocker that does exactly this. Called Ad Nauseam. Chrome blocked it from their store super fast, then blocked it from being installed in Chrome from 3rd party sites, then blocked known versions of it from being manually installed in developer mode. I used to run it set to a low percentage - if I "clicked" every ad they'd know to throw my data out, but if I click say 3% of them...

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago

To be fair, we achieved flight by copying nature. Once we realized the important part was the shape of a wing more than the flapping.

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