Every single person on the planet just happened to be born in some particular place, and every place has some particular set of people who at some point drew some arbitrary lines and decreed that the area within the lines was a country and gave it a name.

The idea that happening to have been born within the confines of one arbitrary set of lines rather than another is something of which to be proud is blatantly stupid.

I started wondering the same thing actually, as I was writing out that response.

I don’t think it can be as efficient as farming though. Even early on you can get great profits out of things like Cranberries and Blueberries, and once you start getting into Starfruit or Ancient Fruit, nothing compares.

It could be worth a try though, for novelty’s sake if nothing else.

Farming.

It’s the only one of the three I do primarily to make money in the first place.

I fish mostly to fill out bundles, to potentially fish up some treasure, and a bit for cooking/gifts - I generally only sell fish to get them out of my inventory if I don’t need them for anything else. And I mine mostly to get ore for bundles and upgrades, to kill monsters, to find treasures and to get the rewards for reaching deeper levels, and I generally don’t sell ore at all - I just stash it.

That’s likely true.

But that’s not going to stop governments from trying, and mostly succeeding, since beating their censorship will require both the will and the ability to break the law. Granted that their systems will certainly be flawed, it will still require at least some minimal technical ability to beat them, which will put it out of reach of many.

And it will also provide the governments with a handy fallback charge to bring against pretty much anyone they deem troublesome enough, since they’ll almost certainly be among those who are breaking the law by beating the system.

Since the earliest days of the internet, governments have been scheming to gain control over the dissemination of content - to have authority over what people can and cannot see.

Autocracies like Russia, China and North Korea simply established censorships regimes, but the best that western governments have generally been able to do is ban content that is illegal in and of itself, like child porn. Their goal, all along, has been to establish systems by which to censor content that is not in and of itself illegal.

This is the most success they’ve had yet.

Very much yes.

I have this great visual image of the corporate web, marked by neon signs and billboards and holographic ads, populated entirely by bots talking to each other while the humans sneak away, giggling and shushing each other.

As intended.

First they’re going to collapse the ad model by eliminating most clicks.

Then they’re going to put all of the information they’ve been scraping from the now-bankrupt websites behind paywalls.

The zionists were the original middle eastern terrorists.

It was wonderfully awful.

Faced with a whole bunch of users and mods angry because Reddit had just announced that they were going to price third party apps out of existence, Spez apparently decided to do some damage control, and then couldn’t manage to be anything other than alternately petulant and sanctimonious.

I never really liked Reddit much, and avoided it for a long time. It was just too big and too shallow.

I finally had to give in in about 2015, because there just weren’t any other good threaded message boards left. But I was always on the lookout for somewhere new.

Over the years, I followed links to every new board I happened on but they never panned out. Then, in the wake of Spez’s pretentious AMA, I happened on a link to lemmy. I expected it to just be another failure, but I found I liked, and more broadly, liked the fediverse. And the more I looked around, the more I liked it. And I just never left.

Sort of on-topic - I disable the music in most first person open world RPGs.

It started with Oblivion. I first disabled it because I didn’t like that the combat music is triggered as soon as you’re detected by an enemy - it feels like a cheat. But the thing I discovered was that it did wonders for immersion, because suddenly the only sounds I heard were actual in-universe sounds - footsteps, wind, flowing water, animals etc.

After playing like that for a couple of years, I got the urge to listen to the music again, so I re-enabled it. And it was very weird, because I had gotten so used to only hearing in-universe sounds that I kept subconsciously trying to place the music in the world - like there was a symphony orchestra in a forest clearing nearby or something. I had to turn it off and have never turned it back on.

I’ve never even heard the Skyrim music - I disabled it right from the start.

The only exceptions are game music that actually is in-universe, like the music played over your Pip-Boy in Fallout or over a car radio in GTA.

I didn’t get it right off.

“National anthem of the internet” was the clue I needed.

I propose that the name of the Supreme Court be officially changed to Donnie’s Rubber-stamping Service.

They aren’t even pretending to uphold law or precedent or even the Constitution. They’re just using whatever illogic and lies might serve to let them hand Trump whatever he wants.

Which means that what they actually are are criminal insurrectionists - active co-conspirators in a deliberate and concerted effort to defy the Constitution, overthrow the government of the United States and replace it with an institutionalized (rather than ad hoc) plutocratic oligarchy.

And this is why SUDDENLY IRAN!

For some reason, he seems extra butthurt about getting caught lying this time.

Black Hole Sun.

It’s a tedious, grating and ridiculously repetitive dirge.

Setting aside the veritable TITAN-loads of shady shit Palsntir is up to, it’s also worth noting that Reddit’s policy changes have made it clear that providing a platform for the spread of disinformation is a central part of its current business model, so I’d assume that not only is Palantir using it for that purpose, but that they are far from alone.

That’d be about par for the course. When too much attention is focused on their abject evil in Gaza, one of their strategies is to suddenly go stir the shit in Iran or Lebanon or Syria and get attention focused there instead.

I think that the focus on the violation of the will of one by another defeats relativism.

The killer’s expression of his will is not simply something he is doing, but something he is doing to another, and the will of that other must have priority.

If the will of the person upon whom the act is committed isn’t held to be paramount, then the entire concept of interpersonal morality collapses. So an act that brings harm to another contrary to the will of that other must be seen to be wrong entirely regardless of one’s personal views on the matter

Note though that that’s subject to the essentially “mathematical” concept of morality I addressed elsewhere. That an act that brings harrm to another contrary to the will of that other is necessarily and without exception wrong does not preclude the possibility that it might be justified, if it serves to prevent a greater wrong or bring about a greater right - if it’s such that the negative value of the act in question is offset by a greater positive value, such that the “sum” of the specific “integers” that make up the entire course of action is positive.