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[Edit: Sorry, I was in a hurry and slaughtered this answer. I wanted to just give a reply in case no one else did, but bungled it. There's detailed replies to the above answer the better spell out that they can't regulate what someone does in a different state. I suggest reading the other responses to better understand this, and ignoring this one. I'll leave it just so you can see how not to respond in a hurry.]

In general, it's not illegal and is the basis behind the states rights movement.

It's been an ongoing thing in the US, probably forever. I think Louisiana still had a legal drinking age of 18 until the mid-80s when they finally changed it to 21 -- only because Reagan was going to withhold federal money from the state. People still have to drive to wet counties/states if they live in a dry one (eg. no alcohol can be sold).

There are some things where crossing the border and doing something can get you in trouble, like trafficking or reselling certain things.

I like the idea of visiting other places and exploring, but I think I'd want to spend longer in each place. For the times I've travelled, I enjoyed the extended stays most where I really got to get past the surface and travel to the non-touristy places.

I honestly don't know what I'd do with the infinite money. Definitely not having problems would be nice. First thing I'd do is probably make sure all my friends were set and comfortable for life and retirement. Then go from there.

Yeah, but then you'd have to live in Texas and deal with 10x the bullshit you have to deal with in other states.

Is it Cartman's mom? Hey, it is Cartman's mom!

would be super nice to have, especially if we could aggregate stats around how much time was spent on each of these bills (eg. debate time, etc).

Sadly, I suspect that most people wouldn't care. They could likely turn these into a badge of honor saying they're fighting against the deep state or whatever crazy nonsense people believe in now.

It's a bit of a journey, but she does.

So if money weren't an issue, where would you most want to travel?

That really sucks that it's so expensive.

It's a scifi story about a girl who gets hired to track down who has been posting video clips online. The book's like 20 years old now, but was his first one set in the present instead of being in the not-so-distant future. It's a fun read.

Oh wow, that's expensive. Is it always that expensive or just because of the time of year?

The most recent fiction book I read was pattern recognition which was fun.

Nice! I've never been there either but had a friend who lived there for a few years. Well, maybe you'll get to visit soon and use your Portuguese.

That's awesome! Are you learning for some travel or just to learn?

There was a recent game announcement that was Amd sponsored that has both (I think it was the avatar game?). I think it's very likely many of the games are time or budget constrained, and so when they're given money from AMD they implement that first and if they've got time or previous code add DLSS.

This feels like the old console money that Sony & Microsoft would give where developers focused some extra optimization or early engine design around one platform because of extra funding. If I recall, Sony gave a bunch of money to xplatform games.

Same mate. read. You?

Thanks for pulling that out.

I get his general frustration with the F2P and making bank on microtransactions, but I think the Larian story somewhat contradicts that even though the road to BG2 was long and difficult. They've slowly been refining the work since the 90s and you can see this reflected in the reviews their games got. Sure, BG3 with that scale was still a risk, but it's built on so much knowledge they've built from the Divinity series that at least some of that seems mitigated.

Yeah, that's definitely what's going on here.

lol. I just turned your words back onto you, and that's it. I don't feel inferior at all, because I know who I'm chatting with now and why you don't get it.

lol. That's the weirdest mind-warping logic that you need to use to make that statement make sense.

I don't watch television in the US. However, everything being political was true when I lived in Europe for years. Many smart Europeans have written about this for centuries, but I'm guessing you haven't read their work.

Oops. my bad. removed.

That part is clear. You're presumably concerned about privacy based on your participation here, but not about the people responsible for making privacy an issue of concern in the first place. You've artificially constrained politics to "voting", but voting is only a tiny portion of politics, and when it comes to non-government entities one that's not useful. Using software or a platform is inherently political, and when someone is profiting from that and working to chip away your rights it becomes important.

Why waste your time on lemmy/kbin or the fediverse? Reddit/X/Threads are free-as-in-beer so you don't pay for them, there's more content, and you don't pay for them. You can skip all of the ads with adblockers and have a great time.