• Tar smoke stick causes damage to internal components regardless, and will murder any resale value if there was any. Also a permanent smell will emanate from any exhaust ventilation regardless unless all your devices are passively cooled (which is doubt)
• Damn bro, love yourself sometimes
• Sticks to your clothes and the smell can’t be easily removed even with a shower, know that from family who did smoke.
• Second hand smoke is still dangerous outside, also pollution.
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• " ", but good on you for not endangering pets in your home
• Only gotta be unlucky once…
• I meant trash in your home/litter out and about, probably should have phrased that better
• Regulations advisement, not willing advertisement.

(Sorry, I tend to give corrections out of spite to sarcasm, you got me with the bait)

Apart from incredibly dense urban cores, the population density across North America is incredibly low compared to almost any other nation, except maybe Russia, Greenland and Iceland.

Additionally, cities are designed for automotive traffic, and the cost of redesign to solve that problem is prohibitively high, meaning it likely will never happen. Even in dense urban cores who seem to benefit the most from the infrastructure, the negative association of public transport with poverty and subpar service brings little appetite for people who already own vehicles to ask for trains/busses.

Then, on top of all of that “Not In My Backyard” (NIMBYism) is incredibly prevalent among wealthy neighborhoods, because most upper-middle class investments are in property values, using their home as collateral for loans. These actions to bring greater accessibility with more dense housing may lower their property values, which will lead to their hostility as well.

TL;DR: Too many people stand to benefit economically or structurally from the existing system to bring change for the collective.

That’s definitely fair, but there is the argument that the largest source of change for major powers is through harming their economies.

Sort of like, I like the artistry from this person from X nation, but by giving them money, I am indirectly helping fuel the economy of X nation, therefore giving their goverment less incentive to change existing behavior.

The problem is that in order to achieve that collective impact, a whole lot of innocent parties who have no support for or active hostility for the existing regime are also badly impacted. Usually individuals will greatly suffer before the political or structural systems will ever change.

So it’s a bit of a bind. Support Russian media, comes with the side effect of supporting the Russian regime, at least indirectly from their income flowing into taxes. End of the day, it’s a choice to make.

Cigs bad. In almost every way.

• you can’t clean the residue out of electronics
• slowly kills you
• slowly kills loved ones
• slowly kills loved pets
• stains rooms
• starts fires
• trash
• addiction

Aw shoot, we’re the 2b2t of forums?

My father used to teach here (not an art teacher sadly). He said he enjoyed getting neat artwork on the essay packets students would give him (he gave extra credit if students added art related to the subject at the front of the packet).

If frien, why enemy shaped?

The Fallout:London timeline was not on my bingo card, not gonna lie. We’re speedrunning Fallout politically here in the US, though.

Hell, I’m in Silicon Valley here in California, and some of my friends are also jumping off the proprietary ship because those large firms are willing to work hand in hand with federal agencies.

If you’ve read the NSA document disclosures by Edward Snowden, it’s apparent that there is an open door for data requests. The current administration isn’t a huge fan of California’s diversity, so we might as well minimize our chances of being targetted…

Honestly I think self-hosted OSS for those models may be the only way to get genuinely useful results in the long term for several different subjects, since I’d imagine investors and advertisers would be unwilling to throw capital at an unrestricted platform.

Anna’s archive my beloved

“What the dog doin’?”

• Regulators

The peak artist has returned!

The pain-rito

LGR made a great video about this PC and the company’s history, y’all should definitely watch it on Youtube.

Yes, but that exponentially increases ongoing costs for hosting servers for the game to perform those extra checks, and unless you’re one of the Valves of the world, you aren’t going to have enough data for an automated system to work properly.

Counter Strike effectively has had a server-sided anticheat since the latter half of Global Offensive’s lifespan, but there are simply too many gaps in the armor - difficult to determine what counts as a violation with 99% certainty, false positives, automated peripherals used by players that “copy” real human players, and so on.

In a perfect world, the answer to this problem would be community hosted servers ran by independent admins who could audit player activity and exercise human judgements. But that would severely limit the scale of games like the Finals, since both those who could stomach the cost of hosting and the quality of matchmaking would diminish. Even after those measures, it’s not bulletproof. Ask RUST players, TF2 players, DayZ/Arma players, and so forth.

Windows users are far more likely to be technically naive enough to install a cheat that will be detected by the kernel level anticheat, and the existence will also act as a deterrent and price increase on the cheat maker’s side. The subset of Linux users who desire to cheat may not be affected by those changes, but other methods, like reporting, active memory checks, and pattern detection can still keep fair play.

This can’t just be a one stop solution. It has to be hybrid. Otherwise the scale of PVP multi-player games we see today is impossible to maintain.

Not necessarily, but it’s an easy way to describe our view of others in our society in general. Not much faith in our fellow humans.

I certainly don’t like the situation, but the amount of people who are chomping at the bit to attack others are far greater than those who don’t want to. I would likely have to hand over everything if I had a gun pointed at me, but usually the best way to avoid that risk is to avoid being there. Staying away from crowds, either trying to bluff/strike/capitulate with those who try to attack you, or just not trusting anyone.

This is why bystander effect is a real issue when it comes to situations in the US where people are injured or need help - the risk of being robbed, defrauded, or sued means it’s a far easier choice to keep moving and not think about those around you.