I’m honestly of the opinion that the credits create more harm than good, because it lets companies pay their way out of being green. So the bigger you are, the more you can find a scheme that may or may not actually sequester that amount of carbon (and definitely not at the rate of production).

It’s the platform that used to be MineTest, apparently

Yeah, that’s basically what I remember too, though I thought it was longer.

I swear the version that I read had some kind of manservant for Sir Bearington…

My hero, thank you!

Can I ask how you do that? I have some debian and fedora boxes I should configure for that

They could also just use a delay. I know sometimes they queue up like 15-20s locally, and the producer can hit a button to just dump the last second or two of feed (eating into your delay buffer) as a method of censoring. Much easier on sensitive ears.

Lol, they willingly work with this fascist regime and others around the globe. Their silence is implicit consent, because a multi billion dollar company doesn’t get to cry fear in the face of the governments they willingly work with.

Stop defending corpos, they’ll gladly sell you to the government and tell your family they’re suuuuuper sorry you got nabbed but there’s nothing they can do.

Microsoft declines to comment

More like ‘Microsoft approves of this imagery’

Silence is consent, be it from approval or cowardice, the outcome is the same.

“French 80” seems like a fun way to signal you like marijuana that didn’t cross my mind before.

Is that a real mod, or are you just describing Counterstrike?

To be fair, only the richest artists can self produce a US nation wide tour. It’s often not up to the artists themselves.

And even then, they’d be super limited on where they can play. Any major venues that uses ticketmaster also signs an exclusivity agreement to do so (I guess maybe that might possibly go away depending on how a trial goes in March, but don’t hold your breath), so good luck holding a big show when no arena is going to risk their contract for a single show.

I’m never happy to pay those fucks, they’re just a legal Mafia who controls all the major venues that the bands I want to see play at.

I got to local shows every so often, but I don’t really have a local scene like I did before I moved, so I just don’t go to concerts much anymore.

Another version of this is people, even left-leaning people, thinking we shouldn’t respect the identities of people in prison, or that prisoners shouldn’t have access to gender-affirming care or not.

Yep, and right along with that are prison rape jokes. Rape is an abhorrent act that can dehumanize the victim, but they did a crime so that makes it ok.

(this rant isn’t at you, sorry if it comes across that way)

I fucking hate how people keep perpetuating the lie that conservatives are pro-life, considering they’re ‘anti-anything that helps poor people’. Healthcare? Food assistance? Schooling? Get fucked kid, you should have thought about that before being born to poor parents. This carlin quote from 30 years ago is more true now that it ever was when he was alive (emphasis mine):

Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to 9 months. After that, they don’t wanna know about you. They don’t wanna hear from you. No nothing! No neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re pre-born, you’re fine, if you’re preschool, you’re fucked

Forced birth mother fuckers…

Then get off your ass and start and promote the petition you want to see instead of whining about what you do see.

Assuming you want to do more than just complain about shit on the Internet while actually doing nothing, that is.

Nevertheless, there have been cases of brain dead people’s body adapting to the lack of central nervous system

We’re they on life support, or do you have an example of it happening without any outside assistance?

so the body is more independently alive than we tend to give it credit.

Being able to biologically adapt to a different control mechanism is cool, but it’s not necessarily ‘alive’ depending on your definition. The biological mechanisms may still fire, but that doesn’t mean that you’re doing anything more than keeping a meat sack functioning while it otherwise atrophies.

No emu war?

to wait (its not a matter of life an death, right? And if it was one better be contacting a doctor or the police)

I had a friend person I knew who ghosted my wife and I randomly and she stopped showing up to the job they shared (that my wife helped her get). She regularly rode around town and had been clipped by cars more than once, so we were really concerned. After getting no response for weeks, and checking her place multiple times with no response, we did a wellness check. She was fine. I tried to get a few things back since we weren’t going to be friends anymore.

You know what that crazy bitch did in response? Filed a restraining order against me with no additional communication. Made up a whole host of accusations of stalking and spying and shit. Thankfully, once I provided the screenshots of my call and chat history, the judge saw through her lies and dismissed the charge entirely. I’ve only ever seen her once or twice since then, and I made sure to turn around immediately because the last thing I wanted was for her psycho ass to have an opportunity to fabricate more lies against me.

TL;Dr - police wellness checks aren’t super great when you’ve been ghosted

Good luck arguing that a missed config counts as an ‘unforeseen issue’. If they go that route, people will be all over them for not being SOC compliant wrt change control.