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  • There was an anime called gate that addressed this specific event.

    It was a very pro Japan are the good guys kind of almost propaganda anime, but long story short the main advantage that the non-magical earthlings had is computers and logistics and War experience from hundreds of years of wars without magic.

    So it would be kind of like asking if a modern military could win against some 1400s era nights in armor who just happened to have missile launchers but not machine guns or tanks.

  • I did. Been a decade since I had a cigarette.

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  • He was overreacting because the bot publicized that he had clicked like on a porn video.

    His ban of the user was an attempt to cover up his mistake and thanks to the Streisand effect now we've got screenshots.

    It's pretty freaking sad honestly.

    If I did something like that at my job I would be looking for a new job. Not really sure why they haven't responded or dealt with that in any way.

  • It is harder to cook healthy foods nowadays than it was even 40 years ago because commercial farming has expedited the growth cycles of plants and animals to the point where they simply cannot process the nutrition available from the environment the way that they used to.

    If you want to eat truly healthy, you basically have to grow the food yourself.

    Since that is completely unreasonable for the grand majority of the modern world, your goal should be to try to eat as healthily as you can. Cooking from scratch and not over cooking your food are very good places to start.

  • ruh roh

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  • There's a very simple solution to this, and I'm honestly not quite sure why no one is doing it.

    Make ads voluntary. Make them separate from the rest of the experience.

    Make it so that you can watch ads and answer surveys based off of the ads in order to get credits which then allow you to watch videos.

    Alternatively, make it so that you can purchase the credits out right.

    Everyone fucking wins.

    I don't know why people are so stupid as to not even contemplate the easiest and most satisfying solution to all of the problems.

  • The flaw with Backpage was that they engaged in moderation of sex workers posts.

    If they hadn't done that it might be a different story but they directly specifically edited posts to increase engagement

  • For me, being wealthy would mean that if they never intentionally earned another penny for the rest of their life, that would not prevent them from doing anything that they wanted to do within reason.

    For normal people that would mean between two and five million dollars in liquid assets available to them.

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  • They offered me $10.13 but in exchange for that they need my email address my mailing address my date of birth my social security and a government ID.

  • I just tell them whoever they're calling for died. I let them bask in the awkwardness for a bit before they hang up.

  • Yeah it seems like if a kid says "It's a me Mario" while playing on a playground some Nintendo lawyer is going to be there to smack their family down with a 30 million dollar lawsuit.

  • We have an app like that that has a lot of our clients pii in it and in order to keep it safe we host the app itself on a remote machine and when people need to use it they RDC into the machine with a shortcut.

    They have local admin permissions on that machine but the only thing that that device can do is run that application and the firewall outside of it prevents it from going out to the internet or other places.

    Maybe it's overkill, but doing things like that help prevent and protect our clients which is the most important thing for the company I work for other than making money.

  • I mean you can always just get LG's. Pretty hard to go wrong with them as long as they're official

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  • The ambassador or the guy that wrote The wheel of Time series?

  • You raise a good point. I would fill that time with making worldwide broadcast at least on the weekly like a fireside chat where I would talk to people and field questions from a twitch interface and do my best to alleviate the worries and fears and to take in the concerns of the people just like you who are afraid that I will cause more harm than good and that way I can get the feedback that I would need to be the best possible lifelong emperor of the planet.

    I would also remind everyone that I didn't choose this it was thrust upon me and so I want to work with everyone to make the world as good as it possibly can be.

    And this also raises another point, I would make it so that news is not protected free speech unless it reports on the facts as best as it knows them.

    The minute you start throwing opinion pieces up and calling it "news" with the underscore objective to be to get as many viewers as possible so that you can maximize your advertising revenue then you would become liable for slander and other possible negative consequences to your actions.

    Probably not execution though, lol.

    Maybe more like being decertified as a "news" organization and not being allowed to broadcast for a period of time.

    I would also use my authority to make ads on the internet illegal, and probably set up an international shopping mart where companies can hawk their wares without manipulative algorithms attempting to coerce people into buying things they don't want.

    More like an international Bazaar.

  • You raise a good point.

    I think what might be a better idea would be to take every person who is slated for execution and they are allowed a 5-minute clip but onto some sort of public broadcast where the world gets to decide. They can argue the reasons why they should be forgiven and the prosecutor will explain their crimes in great detail.

    Then the world gets to vote and majority rules. That would help me be seen as a merciful dictator so it's a win-win all the way around. Plus it would also help me weed out people that were wrongly convicted or people where the law is too strict for the crime.