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  • The law in Canada limits the ISP's risk exposure and the pursuable damages of the rightsholder. Also it definitely would cost them if they told me "we have not responded to this notice from the rightsholder" and then turned around and did exactly that. That would be a flat out lie to their client. I'd have grounds to sue in a situation like that.

    Also, I've been doing this for almost a decade and never had any problems. Maybe you shouldn't assume that your situation is everyone's situation.

  • Your ISP has the same access to your data, but they also have a payment account linked to you, and they regularly cooperate with rights holders and law enforcement.

    This varies widely by ISP and jurisdiction. I never use a VPN and my ISP doesn't give a fuck what I download. They forward me the scary letters from the rights holders but they always preface it with "don't worry, we ain't no snitch"

  • Make it a client side option

  • New Theranos!

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  • Really big and complex games like Rimworld and the Paradox or Hooded Horse games can really suck me in.

  • You're comparing apples and oranges. It should be like this:

    I sell my apples for $1500

    People buy them

    I sell my apples for $1500 (but they cost me less to make)

    People buy them, I make more money

  • This reminds me of a method of trying to evaluate art in an objective way. Basically you ask yourself 3 questions:

    • What is this trying to do?
    • Does it succeed in what it's trying to do?
    • Is what it's trying to do worth doing?

    If the answers to 2 and 3 are "yes", then it's probably a good work of art. This helps remove the subjectivity of "do I enjoy it?" when evaluating a work.

    I would say the answers for Desert Bus indicate that it is indeed a good work of art. It succeeds in being a monotonous parody of a video game which makes a political statement about what games would be if they lacked any fictional elements or conflict. And I think the statement P&T were trying to make with this game was definitely worth making. Plus, we know from the amount of people who play it as a streamed challenge game that there is some desire for a game like that to exist.

  • Was your position like an adjunct? I've heard those can be a real scam in the academia world.

  • No idea where you are or what the labour laws or union situation are. But where I work, a consultation like that is a doctor's appointment and can therefore be taken as medical leave during working hours.

  • Normally there are audio captchas

  • caused a massive outburst of productivity

    Coffee is a stimulant and can therefore provide a similar effect to actual ADHD meds like Adderall and Ritalin. You may have been unknowingly self-medicating.

  • Yeah, IIRC the guy who invented chiropractic said that it was taught to him by a ghost

  • Yikes! Chiropractic is very much a pseudoscience. The reason people like it is because when the chiropractor cracks your back, it makes your body freak out and release adrenaline, which makes you feel less pain. But as soon as the shock of having had your body yanked wears off, the pain comes back. Plus chiropractors often cause their patients all kinds of spinal injuries.

  • This one is so cursed

  • Depends if you care more about performance or ease of use. Based on the fact that OP hadn't considered VM as a solution, I assume they aren't super familiar with hypervisors.

  • Can you install windows in a VM instead? VirtualBox is easy to set up.

  • Right, but subscribing to a community doesn't obligate you to post there.