Dave @ davetapley @lemmy.world

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This seems like a direction https://ground.news/ could go in.

It could be set up in a way that the publications get paid per view of their articles

This is idea behind the BAT token and the Brave Browser¹. Unfortunately it won't break through paywalls, but ad blocking is pretty good and in theory is less guilt.

¹ although, there is this

Big difference with Trump is that a win in 2024 will be the end of democracy in USA.

I'm not being dramatic: He'll pardon himself for everything (as already established) and then use stacked supreme court / police / military / mob rule to prevent himself being removed again.

Can anyone speak to the difference of the data returned in the options given, or is it the same any they're just trying to do analytics?

• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)

Strong exurb1a vibes

I think the USA's National Weather Service Twitter presence is a good example.

If you look deep enough you'll see caveats like "supplemental service provided by NWS" and "Twitter feeds and tweets do not always reflect the most current information", but the truth is that a lot of people (and news organizations) depend on Twitter as their main interface to the NWS, and rarely if ever go to their website.

That obviously creates a tension, which bubbles up in scares like this:

Before last weekend’s storm, the National Weather Service’s Baltimore-Washington office sent this tweet saying that because of a new Twitter policy, automated tweets that show advisories, watches, and warnings might not load.

Contrast that to a world where NOAA (the federal administration which runs NWS) has their own instance: they get the benefit of being able to disseminate updates in a consumer friendly 'social media' style and they retain full control of platform and can be sure the service won't be held hostage, or go down in the middle of a storm.

Finally: if you're reading this from the USA, consider contact NOAA/NWS to let them know you'd like a fediverse presence, I did!

For me it's Half Life 2 because I have such a specific and vivid memory of playing it the first time in my rainy London flat in 2004.

It was this exact moment when I had the experience, for the first time in my life, that:

I'm in this world, I am a part of the game.

Funny OP calls out Half Life: Alyx as one of the best VR games, when VR is all about being 'immersive'.

But for me that moment 16 years earlier will always be the moment I first experienced being 'immersed' in a video game.

Reminds me of that time McDonald's held sole rights to sell chips throughout the London 2012 Olympics, preventing independent food outlets from serving chips with any meal.

Is is pronounced eye-vee-eye, or pipe-slash-(slash-?)slash-pipe(-pipe?)?

I think, I hope that search engines could solve this?

... is quickly becoming one of my fave podcasts, the P10 challenge alone is inspired!

That makes total sense, I bet that's it ✅

We read the reviews, we figured it couldn't be that bad. It was worse. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Vd7ce36pNzdWb5vRA

Should have to pay for the damage too.

Tweet says

🤣🤣 Absolute BRUTALITY from Martin Brundle at #SilverstoneGP

Attached video is Martin Brundle trying to ask question, being denied, then turning away to camera and saying (with deep sarcasm)

oh well, I'm sure it would have been extremely interesting

I feel like race control are doing this VSC then full SC thing more and more, I wonder if it's the default procedure now?

Drivers can't say "no" if you don't tell them what the plan is 💫

Also, I didn't realize Oscar was that good.

No mitigating circumstances

I wonder what would be a mitigating circumstance?