My parents, who aren’t hardcore trumpers but did vote for him last time aren’t voting and I consider that a massive win

Discord is great as chat program. It should’ve only ever been used for that. It completely sucks as forum replacement. Discord should’ve had very little value to any decent organization.

Every single small game I play has effectively the entirety of their support, community and forums run through discord. Instead of easy to search and discover forums, I have to use crappy infinite chat logs. It sucks.

And you can absolutely trust that tons of executives will definitely not understand this distinction and will use AI even in areas where it’s actively harmful.

Agreed. I keep waffling on my feelings about it. It definitely doesn’t feel like our laws properly handle the scale that LLMs can take advantage of ‘fair use’. It also feels like yet another way to centralize and consolidate wealth, this time not money, but rather art and literary wealth in the hands of a few.

I already see artists that used to get commissions now replaced by endless AI pictures generated via a Lora specifically aping their style. If it was a human copying you, they’d still be limited by the amount they could produce. But an AI can spit out millions of images all in the style you perfected. Which feels wrong.

Google says no, you don’t need one.

Also no golden parachute to pay out

Feasible for a non-profit however

Things I need a storefront/launcher to provide me:

• Reviews
• Wish list
• Beta/Alternate build installations
• Friend list, chat, game invite functions
• Mod browser
• Refund policy
• Excellent search and discovery tools

Nice to have:

• Forum for guides/support
• Game sharing
• Ability to move game files

If all you want is to launch a game, why keep the ‘launcher’ at all? Games used to just… start. No separate program needed.

Seriously hope this is a ‘of those men likely to vote situation’. I mean not voting is bad, but I’d rather that than have my gender prefer trump.

Having done some recent research on the possible effects of an aging population, I think we’re all better off with a stable population rather than either a large or small one. China is for sure going to suffer for their one child policy in a few decades. Pretty much every 1st world country is on track for a painful time as their population ages out. The key is to make changes slowly so we don’t put too much pressure on one generation.

I agree that humanity as a whole could probably do better with a smaller global population, but even a medium shrinking of population threatens an extreme level of unrest and suffering as too many old people have to be supported by too few working people.

Most of those crabs (myself included) are benefiting from very low interest rates on their mortgages. Low enough rates to more than fully offset this one time incentive. So they should just chill and be happy they aren’t paying 8% interest or whatever it is these days.

Rather than malicious or a scam, this is closer to the class rep promising free vending machines. They don’t have the power to give this and they’re unlikely to convince the people that do have the power to actually do so.

That’s not really better exactly, it’s still deceitful, but only because they can’t actually deliver, not that they can, but choose not to.

Famously the music for that famous ‘you wouldn’t download a car’ anti piracy disclaimer was stolen and used without permission from the creator.

Are like Uber drivers and stuff able to lie about tips? Not sure how that works when everything is through the app and digital. Would’ve thought that they’d have exact documentation on how much you were tipped for the most part.

Some ideas are so bad you make sure they never get released

You would have the freedom to abstain on every vote, but you have to submit the paperwork. I wouldn’t force someone to actually vote for a person if they didn’t want to, but like taxes or jury duty, they have to show proof that they completed the task. If that ballot is effectively blank, well that’s their choice. But I feel that getting to enjoy those same liberties you speak of requires you to at least minimally engage in the process.

Personally I’d rather have someone randomly fill in bubbles than not vote. As they’re randomly filling stuff in, maybe they see a name they recognize and they actually cast a real vote. That’s a win.

This is basically all modern elections. Very few flip sides, it’s mostly about which side actually gets enough people to get out to vote.

Which is why I want mandatory voting. The country would be a lot better represented if everyone was forced to cast a ballot. Sure tons of people would vote without any real care, but they’d still tend to vote roughly for anyone they knew they liked. The college kid that always talks politics online but can’t be bothered to vote will now actually cast a ballot and be heard.

But this would almost definitely finish off the current Republican party so it’s doubtful it’ll ever happen.

My parents are doing a write in instead of voting for Trump again, so I consider that a win