I feel like maybe research on medical implants like this should be done by the state.

UBlock asks that you give to the blocklist maintainers.

Do I approve of sex work?

So, yes, sorta, mostly, but I don’t think it’s straight forward.

For one, sex work is a very broad category that ranges from selling feet pics to having sex to which you wouldn’t otherwise consent with strangers. So under that large umbrella of “jobs wherein you assist someone with getting their rocks off in exchange for money” there’s a lot of variation and differing considerations for the impacts on the workers and the clients.

So I guess I approve of sex work in the general sense that I approve of any service industry labor that doesn’t intrinsically harm the worker or the consumer. But on the other hand, sex work, particularly having sex, and even stuff short of having sex, bares some higher risk than your average behind-the-counter job. There’s risks of violence, disease, and emotional or psychological harm, some of which is higher because of illegality or stigma, but some of which is higher simply because of the intrinsically intimate nature of sex. And sure, there is something kinda squicky about commodifying human intimacy.

But on the other hand, the demand is there (not like I don’t consume porn), so the supply will always follow to meet it. So best you can do is ensure that whatever labor sex workers do is as safe as possible, and that the people who do the labor do so freely (to the degree possible in a society that’s still capitalist).

#2 is a very good point, at least regarding the AAA space. This was my experience with Fallout 4.

XP.

Windows was getting to be too much trouble to 🏴‍☠️, Vista didn’t look that great, I couldn’t afford to upgrade my hardware to accommodate the bloat, and desktop Linux was a lot more mature and ready to go out of the box.

An Uber will never pick you up and tell you “My credit card reader is broken” at the end of the ride after driving you in circles.

Up front pricing is almost always going to be more attractive than metered pricing.

If you offer me metered pricing, I’m going to assume you’ll charge 20% extra.

And a transparent price up front.

It’s annoying enough to get in a vehicle and not know how much it’ll cost by the end of the trip (would you do this on a bus? Would you let an airline change the price of a ticket mid-flight?), but there’s something viscerally galling about watching some asshole take a longer route just to pad out the fare. Last I checked, when Lyft or Uber gives you a price, that’s the price.

Everyone has stories like this.

The hero we need rn tbh

A person like what? There’s no connecting thread between morality, emotional maturity, and programming skills.

When AirBNB first arrived, I think we thought it would be a tool to let people rent a spare room in their house short term to travelers, with a built in system for reviews and reputation building to ensure that it’s safe for both parties.

Turns out it’s a platform that enables wannabe real estate moguls to buy up housing and convert it into unlicensed hotels for a tidy profit.

Why yes, cancelling, shunning, etc is bad.

Saying ‘female’ to refer to a person who is female can sound overly technical or abstracted, and therefore a bit dehumanizing or depersonalizing.

That said, some people over-react, and sometimes it is more appropriate or at least fine to say ‘female’, for example if you were speaking in the abstract about something that spans between women and girls, or is specifically about biological sex.

But most of the time ‘women’ or ‘girls’ or even ‘ladies’ is going to be more appropriate.

What language are you coming from, out of curiosity?

I miss pidgin so much. I tried to use it the other day with Discord and it was terrible. So God-awful.

And that’s fine, but why do gamers use it over any other VoIP option? And why the infinity chat channels over infinity servers?

Only in a social context where “liberal” just means “polite”.

Debian Retro Universal Gaming System

Someone make that a thing.

xfce: what should it stand for?

One issue is not simply attitudinal (I have the right!), but habit/expectation (this is normal!).

A lot of people already structure their lives around cars. It’s hard to get someone to go from “yes, it is normal and right for me to travel 40+ miles a day for errands” to “it is unreasonable for someone to visit these 5 places across town in a single afternoon”.