rothaine @ rothaine @beehaw.org

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Very true.

I think that's why the majority of my suggestions relate to democracy itself -- if we can get away from "two parties pooping back and forth forever", we increase the odds of good people getting into power. Hopefully.

FPTP voting is banned everywhere.

Full financial transparency for all elected officials. If Matt Gaetz buys a dildo, everyone knows about it. Serving in Congress is a service, not something you should want to do for life.

Wyoming Rule.

Gerrymandering is treason. Straight to gitmo.

Bribery is treason. Straight to gitmo. In cases of corporate bribery, the board is held responsible.

Money is not speech.

Corporations are not people.

Not quite sure how to codify it in law, but something to force anti-trust action (since existing laws just aren't enforced). Maybe every year, the top 5 companies by market cap are forcibly broken up into at least 3 entities?

Yeah it's really cool! When I first heard that Ghibli did a music video I was like "wait what" lol

I'll raise you On Your Mark, which was done by Ghibli: https://vimeo.com/75179415

I've got a few pairs of Smartwool socks that I've owned for years and are still great.

Why didn't I think of this

Notch made Minecraft.

He's been a little shit since then, but at least Minecraft is pretty cool.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

We may have worked in the same office.

"Penny wise, pound foolish" -- but they figured out they can make people argue about the pennies and keep all the pounds for themselves

71F always, year round

Seriously, they care about this so fucking much, it's just boggling

Just give me WindWaker HD port since I don't have a Wii U

Blue shirt guy has serial killer vibes

Oh interesting.

But you can sell apple gift cards on eBay, yeah? Sure you won't get the full value, but you get most of it. And as you said, in this case Roblox is taking a cut for the conversion anyway.

So it seems like they could've washed their hands of this by making Robux transferable/ebayable: the "casinos" would still exist, they would still benefit from the popularity of the casinos, and the Robux are still "worth something". But they got too greedy and dug too deep by trying to become the "eBay" in the situation and take a cut off both ends, and now they might be forced to make Robux effectively worthless.

outside the Roblox ecosystem

I have no love for Roblox, but if it's a completely different website, isn't this kinda...not their fault?

It sounds like those IRS scams that want you to pay with iTunes gift cards -- no one claims that Apple is running the scam.

The article claims they were aware and didn't stop it, and that's why they are at fault. Maybe they could've revoked the API keys for those gambling sites? But is that even how it's set up? (I don't actually know how Robux work.)

Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.

-Billy Shakes

I'm not an infra dev, but a previous project used SOPS and it seemed alright

And despite masking, COVID spread all over the globe and killed a fuckload of people.

Would more people have died if there was no masking? Yes, absolutely.

But the question of interest is: how many fewer people would have died if we made a concentrated effort to improve ventilation in public spaces?

Maybe I'm completely missing your point, or maybe you're just being snarky/contrarian and don't really have a point, but it sounds like you are basically saying (reusing the above analogy) "Why are we talking about adding seatbelts to cars when we already have helmets?"

Well so there's the question: how much more effective is good ventilation than masking? I was under the impression that it's, like, a lot. Orders of magnitude. Like if good ventilation was equivalent to seatbelts in cars, then masking would be wearing a helmet while driving.

But perhaps someone who is better at reading scientific results could find the study and come up with a better analogy for us laymen, in case my understanding is way off base. If it's actually that masking is more like airbags, then I think people would be a lot more amenable to doing both.