I mean, it’s hard. I’m not really against death penalty on its own, I think there are crimes which deserve exactly that. My issue with death penalty is how easy it is to misuse. So in a theoretical world where some perfect entity with no ability to make mistakes decides who gets it, I’m 100% in favour. In the real world, not so much.

As much as I dislike crypto, this is not a crypto fail story, even though the article paints it like that a few times (or at least the tone implies).

No one should have their finger servered because of other people’s greediness.

These are the occasions I wish death penalty was a thing, especially for those cases where the idiots have been caught in the act - there are better things to do with my tax money than making sure they have a place to live in and some nice good meals to go with it.

Eh, no, maybe read what nicotine does to your body and go beyond the negatives?

Why would people even start doing it if it didn’t do anything for them?

You don’t. If it was as simple, no one would smoke. If tobacco didn’t give you something extra, your body wouldn’t crave it.

Perhaps I worded it poorly, but my point was that companies shouldn’t go bankrupt when they make a mistake.

If you keep doing it after you’ve been told, then you’re no longer just making a mistake it’s obviously malicious, but I don’t think then Apple should go bankrupt when they incorrectly implement a new law.

While I personally don’t think it’s accidental, you should be more lenient towards a first offense for any new law (unless you can prove it was intentional, which is incredibly hard).

Various servers using various software that can communicate with each other.

While true, 568m is a significant cost of doing business. Also remember that a punitive action should not make the company go bankrupt, it should make them rethink.

And if they don’t, the fines will go higher, until they do rethink.

Steam is equally shitty, they just have the advantage of not being publicly traded which means they can create long term strategies and execute them successfully.

Doesn’t mean they’re pro consumer.

That intro song from Lion King, just the initial “haaaaaa”.

I read some researches about certain genes making it more likely to be gay. Though it’s been a while, can’t remember the specifics.

Another interesting research I read (which I need to check for new info) was that each subsequent male child was more likely to be gay and it was actually the mother’s body that caused them to be gay because that lowers the competition for the oldest children.

Není to zrovna zaměřeno na Čechy, ale pokud stačí instance, kterou provozuje Čech, tak lemmings.world :)

True enough, though I meant it more in the sense of the graph. People can rarely be satisfied.

I’m not disagreeing, sorry if that was the impression, I was merely pointing out that the passive-agressive “someone’s American dream, just not mine” does not really apply to the graph.

I mean, that’s not necessarily bad, right? 80% people think that it would be better for them if someone worked in a factory and 25% think it would be better if they personally worked in a factory. So, if the 25% get a chance to work in a factory, they’re satisfied and the 80% is satisfied as well.

Can you share some details? If there’s anything sensitive, you can ping me on Matrix.

Wait, they were hinting someone is gay? Outside Ymir/Historia that is, that was kinda obvious.

I’ll take pessimist takes on technology over calling everything porn any day.

Well, the only I’ve seen was Requiem for a Dream and it’s one of my favourite movies, so I’ll go with that one.

Attack on Titan, in the anime they decided that having a mother tattoo her kid was too much (in a show where giants casually eat people alive) so they made her do an embroidery with the same symbol instead.

During season 4 where the tattoo was relevant for the first time (and they included it in the show), it was fun watching anime-only watchers complain it was a total ass-pull with no prior setup.

Indeed. And what fascinates me the most is how well it holds up after so many years, there’s no other book that’s still so engaging for me, especially given I’m a very different person than I was 18 years ago.

Sapkowski’s writing is awesome.