Haha, thank you for the explanation. Yeah, I’d heard of the clip, but never heard of that usage of coconuts.

I’m also probably older than the average memer, lol

I’d call it both. Hassling people for taking sunscreen or water onboard is probably mostly theatre. All of the tracking and scanning is probably what they actually use to find any naughty people.

I thought they were mostly bots and alts

Not if it means white men can go wherever they want!

I’m not really getting it even after reading that page, but thank you lol

I guess we need to allow everyone to use any washroom because we need a good man in the women’s washroom to be around to save the women from a bad man in the women’s washroom

typical coconut

…? Brown on the outside, white on the inside? Like a white-washed Indian person?

It’s a lot easier to access ChatGPT than it is to access a flying car

It stops mattering once it starts…

• Putting at risk populations beyond the individual at question
• Bringing back deadly infectious diseases that were nearing extinction (at least in the developed world)

Weird of you to have gone through their comment history and see what phrases they’ve used though.

And that it was curated by an AI model, so there’s no human to blame!

And the winters are too short to kill off the ticks now.

But we still get way too much snow at once occasionally. But it doesn’t stay for Christmas.

You’re right! Some games on Steam are DRM-free.

All games on GOG are DRM-free as a rule.

I think they were saying that the US funded the Taliban to fight the USSR (aka. “commies”)

I haven’t heard of the phantom charging issue before, but the “only charging to 80%” could be because of adaptive charging settings

But in tech, there’s often a lot of overlap in the high-end and crap…at least in terms of issues.

Expensive, high-end products can sometimes just be frustrating, or just lacking features that’d seem obvious.

That’s just semantics.

When you buy a CD, you don’t own the songs.

But you do have some item that belongs to you.

With Steam, you have a ticket that will let you into Steam to download the game for as long as your account is in good standing and as long as Steam exists.

With GOG, you have a file you can use to install the game on any machine INDEFINITELY. GOG can’t revoke your access for any reason, and if GOG shuts down, you can still install the games.

With GOG, you can buy any game, and you’ll have files to keep. Once you have the installer, you can keep that forever.

Even if your GOG account is hacked, banned, and GOG goes out of business, you can forever install your game onto any compatible machine, even offline, and play the game.

That’s what GOG does differently.

It’s like buying a physical game, except there’s no disc. They can’t revoke your access or deactivate your ability to play the game.

Not a current student, but know some in tech programs. At least in colleges (as opposed to universities), a lot of professors have been moving away from textbooks. But maybe the students I know are just lucky, lol

There are still publishers who do exactly what you describe. Pearson was doing maybe 10% off for the digital copy. You could buy used textbooks, but then you’d need to buy the “digital pass” for the homework, which was more than half the cost of the book (and it wouldn’t give any digital access to the book itself).

I remember when this was first starting, the digital copies were like 30% cheaper. A lot of people, including myself, took them up on it because it made most things easier. (Especially when publishers would be coming out with new editions every year and many profs just made the new edition the required one regardless of any substantial differences)

That was the one action I took on Twitter after creating an account before my account got banned.

I needed to create an account to check a local source for updates. So I did. I also decided to look around on Twitter to see what I was “missing”. Saw a bunch of Musk stuff and instantly knew I didn’t want to see any of it. So I blocked him.

In a few weeks, when I clicked a Twitter link, it said my account had been banned for suspicious activity. It had a secure password and this was its second log-in ever (no posts, comments, reactions, etc).