some modern female video game protagonists have some amount of chin, which indicates that they’re real and believable, and thus not meant for an audience of gamergate incels. the incels are outraged by it.

DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) is a buzzphrase right wingers scream whenever someone with an uncomfortable amount of color in their skin or a woman makes it to a high position. they mean to say that the position is undeserved, that they only got it out of pity or quotas and not out of competence or merit.

combine the two and you get a female protagonist with a normal body that isn’t built to be a sex object for incels who doesn’t deserve the position she has.

Don’t quote me on this but i’m fairly sure someone can triangulate your home location from these distances so maybe censor it a bit?

i thoroughly enjoyed (and sometimes won) town of salem when that came out, but it’s online and text based. I don’t think it’s a good fit for playing with friends in the room with you. It being text based helps ease the masking and roleplay though.

art depicting male on male romance

it’s not meant literally or absolutely (despite looking like it might)

between villas, personal staff, vehicles, political donations, savings/investment programs that the bank or a personal finance guy might recommend you and of course random company stock you personally invest in there’s no upper limit to the amount of money you can spend. also CEO compensation is not just pure salary, it’s very diverse.

here’s the breakdown of unitedhealth’s CEO compensation, which can be found at https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=731766&owner=exclude under DEF 14A, specifically here https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=%2FArchives%2Fedgar%2Fdata%2F0000731766%2F000110465924050055%2Ftm2332959d4_def14a.htm from 2024-06-03.

As you can see an actual stable cash salary is just a very tiny part, and the rest are rewards as if they’re stringing along a horse with carrots. if the company loses value, so does the value of the CEO’s existing portfolio but also his yearly bonuses. It’s probably really stressful being used to a lavish life and having to keep up the performance of a whole messy and chaotic gigantic company (in a messy and chaotic economy that nobody can predict) to keep that standard. What with the boom and bust cycle probably every 8 to 12 years you’ll have to readjust your living standards, sell some houses or cars or yachts. That must really hurt /s. I think most people know how awful it can feel to lower your standard of living because of outside circumstances you can’t control. Of course despite doing the most damage anyone can do on the planet CEOs (and individual major shareholders) are still human. Institutional investors usually aren’t, but y’know everything is in the end made up of humans.

Everyone’s got some sort of problems, but the real enemy isn’t each individual CEO but rather a system that makes it so the ideal play as a medical insurance company is to do a controlled burn/murder of their own clients. There are perverse incentives at play, and I personally don’t judge a person too harshly for going with the flow, especially when their own standard of living depends on it. To be evil is to be human in some sense. And there are lots of layers and buffers between your decision as CEO and the misery of your clients. It’s difficult to have empathy when you’re so far removed and live in such different worlds. That’s of course also part of why it works. Things to think about I guess.

there’s more to dynamic global illumination than just ray tracing

it’s okay as an open world survival shooter, but so far (just got to the point where I can leave the first/tutorial zone) it’s been pretty basic. There aren’t many deviations from the standard formula, you go to a place because you got a quest, investigate anomalies, kill or talk to people/mutants, and then go to another place to do the same. By default there are almost no random events happening on the roads, and if you are scared of enemies on the road, the empty space near the road has been perfectly safe so far. The common anomalies have been very nonthreatening and have an extremely simple solution, the only difficulty with them is quantity. I honestly think I might go back to fallout 4, but I also might finish stalker 2 eventually.

but they fill your stomach for a low price

q-tips trigger my gag reflex lol

Prey 2017 can be incredible blind and Dredge might be worse if you’ve had the ending spoiled

with linux and kde you could create an encrypted kde vault that’s mounted to your librewolf profile folder (and you can change librewolf settings to save history, cache, etc.)

if you don’t want to use kde, it uses cryfs in the background, which has a cli tool as well. unmount the volume after using the browser and profit i guess, though i do agree with the other commenter that this doesn’t make much sense in my head.

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I love trash that doesn’t make me think too hard

that’s unfortunate. have you also tried removing the *. prefix?

i’ll do some testing later myself, but that’s good to know. i got those domains from random reddit threads after having had enough of the issue, and i’m pretty sure i tested if either one worked on its own but the memory is so fuzzy i’m just making up false memories. just a minute earlier i was convinced i didn’t actually do any testing.

I’ve had the same problem, in my case it was that my adblocker was blocking the domains used to track video position, which are mildly tracking-ish in nature.

*.video-stats.l.google.com *.s.youtube.com

"A vehicle’s size, weight, and height certainly play a part in its ability to protect passengers in a crash,” said Brauer. “But the biggest contributor to occupant safety is avoiding a crash, and the biggest factor in crash avoidance is driver behavior. A focused, alert driver, traveling at a legal or prudent speed, without being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, is the most likely to arrive safely regardless of the vehicle they’re driving.”

they used crash statistics for new cars with models from 2018 to 2022, where tesla is the most dangerous brand

scientific institutions and governments could rent enough GPUs to train their own models, with potentially public funding and public accountability, and also it’d be nice to know if the data llama was trained with was literally just facebook user data. i’m not really in the camp of “if user content is on my site then the content belongs to me”.