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Why should legality matter? What are laws? It's rules that the government put down for everyone to follow. And what happens if someone controls all aspects of the government?

Legality is meaningless in the face of fascism, because the fascist government will be making the laws. it's like asking why it wasn't illegal to do genocide in nazi Germany. Or asking why it wasn't enforced by law to hide jews from the nazis to protect them

Legality is not relevant. Legality is not morality or a foundation for ethics. Legality is just the will of the government, for better or for worse. It is not something that necessarily serves the people's beat interests

I don't know enough about the subjects to go into details, but I know enough to say that that is reductive. ARM/alternatives are not inherently better, at least not universally. And, especially because of the inertia, I do not expect x86 to be fully replaced on the desktop any time soon. The motivations behind companies such as Apple using ARM likely have more to do with licensing than anything else

It's probably more useful to think of x86 and ARM as slightly different tools that are slightly better suited to different tasks. Desktop, server (and possibly high-performance) computing are x86's specialty, and I do not expect it to be replaced

All-in-all, from what I know, the practical differences between ARM and x86 are nowhere near large enough to be compared to something like the electric vs internal combustion engine. It's probably closer to a difference of, say, a typical train and a subway

But, please read up on this yourself. I am not an expert in hardware, this is just what i casually picked up as a layperson

It's very much not? It's not even certain if an alternative architecture will ever fully replace it

True open source software runs on frustrated developers

But yeah, that is a really nice part of FOSS. I have myself been in situations where I just went and fixed a big myself because it annoyed me lol

I don't think it would be worth it, as the thermal conduction would be far too low to be useful

However, it would be a useful ability in extreme environments, such as space or Antarctica or something like that. So your chances of becoming an astronaut would massively increase.

Uh, that's not how orbital mechanics work

And also, let's say we have to remove 10% of the moon's mass to noticeably affect the tides (and it's not enough to just mine it, you'd also need to remove it from the moon's gravity well which is... A whole thing by itself, so let's ignore that for funsies), which is about 710^{21 kg. I can't find statistics for total mining activity, but we mine about 2.6 \* 10}12 kg iron each year. Let's just take the 10x value of that to be safe, 2.610^13 "stuff" mined each year

In order to mine 10% of the moon's mass, it'd take roughly 10^8 years, or written out, 100 000 000 years

And, as mentioned, this is while ignoring that you'd need to actually remove the moon's mass from its gravitational well, which simply won't be done at this scale

Worrying about this problem is so ridiculously out of scope that it's laughable

Awww, precious kitty 🥺

That's fascism for you. That's where the US is headed

Why a gas burner specifically? Induction stove tops are more controllable

You can't exactly compare the studio to how it was a decade ago..

Gotta love that capitalism's "efficiency" that everyone keeps mentioning as a positive

Sure, but space habitats are far far more useful than underwater ones

There is definitively no shortage of challenges in orbit

The funny thing is, a cheap quartz crystal based clock is more accurate than the best mechanical clock

Fancy clocks being more accurate than cheap clocks is literally just marketing.

But if you were to overthrow Putin, how would you do it?

If you have a fascist dictatorship, how do you end it? How was fascism ended in history?

With VR an important aspect you're not mentioning is the 3D movement you are now able to do, inhabiting the played character in a more true to form way

I can't tell you exactly what it is, but simulation games are nearly always satisfying for me

Probably because it's a sped up, consequence free, approximation of the real thing, without any of the entry cost but with a similar satisfaction for succeeding

And like, it's not like other mechanically complex games are really that different. All a game is, aside from the story and art part of it, is problem solving and surpassing obstacles

It's definitively the latter. Steam awards are mostly considered to be a joke. The actual interesting and well-deserving games rarely ein anything,.usually because they're more niche

I mean, hell, starfield won the innovation award last year. I think that's the biggest joke award that has ever been lmao. That game is about as innovative as a french fry

kids should not lie to their parents

Said by someone whose parents aren't abusive I presume.

Yeah no, welcome to the real world, there's tons of fucked up parents out there that kids need to be protected from

"this was eye opening"

Bro if this was eye-opening your level of political analysis is high school level

Yeah it's like, human civilization has been around for less than 0.001% of the time it will take for the sun's output to meaningfully change to such a degree that life on earth will become impossible. I think it's more productive to worry about other things first