The question wasn’t posed to you, it was a rhetorical question by an athlete in the context of racing.

Wouldn’t the best term be mercantilism? Power through the accumulation of wealth, but instead of nations it’s now corporations. It’s definitely not capitalist since capitalism is about having competition, and that doesn’t happen without constant government intervention to break up monopolies and trusts.

Honestly, I’m not against ads, I understand that a site with free articles needs to pay the bills somehow. The reason I use ad block is that online ads have become so intrusive that it makes websites unusable, and the way they track you is way over the line. If ads didn’t completely destroy the experience of reading a website and were reasonable in the data they collected I probably wouldn’t bother with ad block.

I only have 1 ultra wide monitor. It’s slightly less screen space than 2 monitors, but it’s enough, and I like the simplicity of it.

Taco Bell used to be what you bought because it was dirt cheap. Is it supposed to be a luxury now?

Recent surveys find that 3/4ths of Americans live paycheck to paycheck so no.

Then they’ll just use less advanced AI? We’re sufficiently advanced intelligence and instead of paying humans they want cheaper dumber intelligence.

Open your eyes, the world isn’t even real. Once you realize that you can take whatever form you want.

As bad as establishment candidates tend to be, trump is far far worse. The problem with the trump supporters is they boil everything down to “X bad, so not X good!” Trump was an outsider which is why they supported him, but just being an outsider doesn’t automatically make you good, and in his case he’s far worse.

How is tiktok anything like WikiLeaks or lavabit? How is Lemmy like them either?

Why isn’t the company paying for it? Anyways, you could just export it to a different format and then back to Excel depending on which features you’re using. But also, I think this is being paranoid. Microsoft isn’t the NSA

How about creating some communities too? I’d love some high quality educational communities moderated by a museum

Checks and balances are about preventing a small faction of the government from gaining absolute control of the entire government. It’s not about preventing a say, it’s about preventing a total takeover that prevents anyone else from having a say in the future.

Almost nobody knows the academic definitions of most political ideologies, they’re just all cable news buzzwords now. If you took a sample of the population I’d be surprised if even 5% could give you the correct academic definitions for the vast majority of political ideology terms.

Are there interesting powers? I want a hack n slash that has more physicality to the powers so there’s more strategy to positioning and mob management. Like cleave powers that send enemies flying backwards, or wind powers that blow open a path forward, or time bubbles that slow enemies and projectiles in an area. I’m kinda bored by games that just have numbers tied to an animation.

I wonder if there was some kind of technological revolution that made it exponentially easier to generate text that happened recently.

I think I heard that there’s software to help you find similar songs that some pros use, but it’s probably only something that really big companies need to worry about.

Same. I hate the unintuitive keyboard shortcuts, the nonsensical drag and drop everything UI, and their ridiculously over complicated development system.

I think he purposefully picks roles where he can go wild which tends to correspond with ridiculous movies.

The people that don’t have kettles don’t drink tea. Pretty much everyone I know who drinks plenty of tea have kettles, and everyone knows that they’re an option.