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Thank fuck tho, it will keep electric waste down, and I feel we are starting to figure out you don’t need to spec your game to the newest graphics card for it to be fun.

How can this GaaS thing be sooo profitable and also such bad press that even mentioning it results in a “sorry we didn’t mean that” article?

Thanks for spamming this to keep reminding me, I am a total slob, and it took me this long to go find my ID card to sign.

When I think of cutting red tape, no unnecessary bullshit bureaucracy and fast acting government, I don’t usually think of Germany. What happened?

“I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene,” she said.

"This act could be watched for as long or as little time as the player wanted through a window, and then a player would be able to shoot this character in the head.

What game is this even? I mean, why would any game need a graphic rape scene? Who is this going to sell to?

Don’t video games outside of Japan try to avoid getting AO rated any more?

It’s a mixed bag. Some ads (like some Youtube stuff I guess) are bundled and filtered, but most actually rely on external requests to ad exchanges. What happens mostly is that when there is an ad spot in the page you downloaded, that is in fact a generic request to an ad broker to send an ad instead of a specific ad. That then starts a real time bidding process inside multiple broker networks to find the most expensive (for the advertiser) ad they can show you based on your tracking information and demographics.

And that’s for every ad spot. It’s insanely intricate and frankly wasteful.

At this point, using Firefox and an ad blocker does more for the climate than paper straws or recycling.

Even with ad blocking, half of consumer internet traffic is ads. Google is contributing to increasing this ratio, where most traffic on the internet will be stuff the client did not request, contributing more to climate change than Bitcoin - not that this makes crypto look better, they are just a useful milestone to compare to with the press they get.

And this doesn’t include the idiotic AI shit they do.

same logic

That’s the point, it isn’t. The good old version was built on logic where the browser would send the downloaded webpage to the extension, and uBO could weed out ads and trackers, and give you the sanitized version. uBOL works completely differently, as it has to ask the browser to clean it out, but the browser will ultimately decide what to actually do, and there are already limitations that impact ad blocking, as the browser won’t accept enough changes to block all the different kinds of shit that comes through.

The other big difference in logic is distribution, uBO relies on outside blocklists to keep up with Google changing Youtube several times a day to keep sending you malware, in the new system, this is not allowed, so it’s on Google to approve a new blocklist as fast as they do their changes - they won’t.

It’s going to be less capable, it’s going to be exactly as capable as Google wants. It might as well be named the Google Ad Blocker if only that didn’t discount the insane work the uBO team does to keep up with Google’s shit.

I can’t tell if you are sarcastic

Not almost monopoly.

Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,

- the US govt

How do you know?

The question was how can Trump stay president after theoretically winning now and reaching his term limits.

I wondee how the SC would argue that one out.

I bet it’s more like a cake

Python is one of the few languages with an official style guide, I think that guide says 4 spaces.

I think that unlike in some other places in the world, Italy has fully outlawed death sentences more than a hundred years ago, along with slavery.

media attention the coverage had been “largely factual”

I think the murderer is afraid of exactly that, factual coverage.

TBH might have been a bunch of middle class retirees who sold the family home up in England for like 800k, bought something smaller for two to live in in Spain, and a small sailing boat. I don’t think about those people as “rich”.

So if I get a heat gun, can I get the PFAS in the condom to bond to the PFAS that’s already in my dick from other sources? You know, for added grip.

Under the new system, the retirement component can never be touched or spent until you retire.

Withdrawals are not allowed until retirement age. This is intended to ensure that individuals will have sufficient funds to support themselves in retirement and, in turn, will give the South African economy a more stable and growing pool of savings to fund economic growth, and employment.

So basically they are holding the money in the retirement system hostage and are planning to give tax cuts to the wealthy - wonder what else is “funding economic growth and employment” is, because it always turns out that way.

Cue the govt 20 years later when they “have to raise the retirement age since the system is unsustainable”.

Hope I’m not right.

Not an expert on the US political system, but legislative power, and thus changing the system, is vested in Congress, not the Presidency. So he’d need to get a supermajority there, and rewrite the Constitution. Point is, it’s not Trump that can do it, but a theoretical Republican House and Senate 60% supermajority (or a supermajority of State legislatures).

Look at what happened in Hungary in 2010, that’s a blueprint of that happening. Biden dropping out is good news, since from the outside it kinda looked like the US might have been setting itself up for that kind of thing to happen. I think with Harris running, it’s not realistic the Dems will lose that bad.

That said, he could try another Jan 6th, basically take Washington under military occupation. Then it’s up to which states go along with it and which ones don’t, and you’ve got a civil war.