While I’m no fan of Epic Games for bribing companies to keep games off of Steam for a year or more, Valve’s market dominance in PC game sales isn’t a good thing for developers or consumers.

Not if the admins of an instance want to maintain their echo chamber by shepherding discussions towards extremist viewpoints.

Same with Garrett County in Western Maryland; lots of multi-million dollar vacation houses that border Maryland’s largest lake, despite there being few job opportunities in the county as a whole.

Also have to make sure that the public WiFi network one’s device is connected to doesn’t block VPN connections, as was the case at at least one Walmart I tried using the WiFi at.

And Trump would gladly see far more Gazans killed for the sake of securing Israel’s hold on Palestinian territory. Not that Harris couldn’t do better by the Gazans, but it’s either naive or deceitful to imply that both candidates have similar stances on the issue of Palestine.

Another tale in the bizarre adventures of Floridaman! /s

“We should instead impose a $6,000 annual tax penalty on childless cat ladies!” -J. D. Vance, probably /s

There’s no point of mentioning it other than undeserved positive PR until such plans are actually implemented and stay implemented, at the very least until a settlement that provides for an equitable, permanent, two-state solution is mutually agreed upon by both Israel and Palestine.

Or, if lots of people use your product and you can afford as many lawyers as you need, the theft doesn’t seem to matter then either…

Because the cartel was letting everyone live in peace and harmony before the arrest?

In her place, Trump would be lauding how great he thinks the US-Israeli alliance is and commit twice as many resources to Israel in the process. Acting like Harris is anywhere near as bad as Trump on the issue of Palestine is either being grossly naive or intentionally deceitful, while not voting for her just because she isn’t pro-Palestine enough is counter productive when Trump is far less so.

Did government policy in China change on foreign asset ownership without the need for a local company to serve as an operating partner?

The worst culprits though are the EAs and Paradoxes of the world that sell dozens of DLCs for games that cumulatively cost far more than the base game itself.

Unless he were also forced to divest all his shares in the company though, he’d still profit if the company’s stock price continued to grow after his departure. Not likely given how much sway his involvement seems to have on its value in the minds of Tesla shareholders, but still a possibility.

After narrowing down the “high velocity” tower fan options on Amazon two years ago to two options that seemed to have the best reviews, I ended up going with the “Dreo Pilot Pro”, ordering two and for some reason being sent three. Anecdotal experience of course, and their use has been largely limited to the summer, but they seem to work a bit better than the Lasko fans they replaced without being distinctly louder. Specific settings probably depend on the exact model one chooses, but the ones I got have nine speed options.

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With the electoral college though, it’s especially important to get people from states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Georgia to vote for Biden instead of Trump.

We really need users like that on Lemmy to replicate the positive aspects of the Reddit community that are worth bringing over. Something original to here, hopefully.

Legislation like that might happen in places like the EU, but in the US at least, unless lobbying rules are amended, consumers stand next to no chance against the commercial interests of advertisers.

If you’re the one paying for internet access, you should also have the right to determine the content that you’re paying to have access to. While something like pi hole could be used to metaphorically take down most of the billboards without impacting the ground below it, even everyday users should be informed about the data advertisers are getting from them, whether it is anonymized or not. Hiding an important setting about data sharing near the bottom of a page in settings doesn’t help anyone but the advertisers.