tiredofsametab

I mean, if you change it to “if Bob murdered a guy in cold blood (i.e. not defense, etc.) and no one was looking, did Bob break the law?” The answer to me wouldn’t be anything but yes.

Just because the offense is different or you don’t agree with it doesn’t change that in my eyes. It generally doesn’t change it in the eyes of the law, either. Always campaign against laws you think are bullshit. If enough people do, you might be able to do something about it.

I will continue not using it. I was interested in Oculus until they sold to FB and then I nope’d right out of that. I really did think VR was neat, but various things kept me from pulling the trigger. If it becomes the only way to use chunks of the internet, I just won’t use them; I grew up still in the analog world (though we did have BBS and very early dial-up in the '80s), and I could go back to it. I’d honestly miss educational content more than anything else, but I can get books. In my lifetime, that strategy would probably still work fine.

What do the terms of use and privacy policies say? Who’s paying for the servers and what are they getting out of it? Also, since your data is federated, what happens when it hits a server with any different policies (or who may be in violation of the license of the software itself, but is getting no enforcement)?

If you are not paying for some service, you and your data are almost certainly the product. It was true then, it’s still true today.

Yup, this is correct.

Nope. I live on an island on the opposite side of the world from my family and there are currently no seafaring options that work with my employer. In-country, the only time I’ve flown is to another island several hours away. Otherwise it’s public transit for me the vast majority of the time (and my fuel efficient bike for when I need to go somewhere transit doesn’t (in ~ 9 months, I have < 800km on it, a lot of which was going to and from Costco).

Download the messaging app of your choice. Get friends to download it if they want to contact you. Use that app and too bad if no one else does shrug

I was wondering if it were tied to recent court decisions in Korea to allow someone to sue over wartime labour, but it looks like this has been going on a lot longer.

Well, that’s something I’ll want to turn off, though all they’ll get from me is random appointment reminders and confirmation codes.

I’m not seeing a setting to disable updates. Do you know where that might be? Thanks!

Thankfully, I don’t have this update yet. Not sure if because my region is Japan or if that’s not how they decided upon the staged rollout.

I oppose the death penalty in very nearly every circumstance. I think that prisons should be more about rehabilitation that just brutish punishment (but the punishment exists at least in part to avoid extra-judicial attacks by the victims who feel the perpatrator was not justly punished). Some people, of course, cannot be rehabilitated and, in that case, I would lean toward life in prison.

I’ve been living in Japan the better part of a decade and don’t have strong opinions on anime or the like (I couldn’t tell you what KyoAni has made)

The netuyo are probably whinging about it, but I stay away from those corners of the internet. Osaka Naomi and others have faced issues as well. Mostly, from what I remember, it’s been sports competitions where this comes up

Probaly Jomon (i.e. whatever was spoken by some of the first people to inhabit Japan).

Yeah, my mom’s whole side of the family has issues like that. Dad’s not as much, but I may have lost the genetic lottery in that bit. Best of luck to you with your issues as well!

It was a tongue-in-cheek comment hoping to spur some conversation about alternatives. I don’t know what virtue would be signaled here. Also, I’m still awaiting official diagnosis but a DNA test mentioned I was likely to have celiac’s, my dad recently got diagnosed with it, and I’ve always had issues after eating nearly anything, so no wheat for me for now.

Do you have any non-dessert options?

my head canon: 100% baking powder with an image projected on it to look like a cookie

I actually got board, got a new HDD, and got linux mint on it. It doesn’t seem to have a bootloader installed and trying to install grub2 hasn’t changed anything. I’m also pretty disappointed in game support. Maybe I’m missing something, but Steam knows it’s on linux and a huge number of games in my library just say they run on windows or windows and mac.

I’ll check it out. Thanks!