weirdly they feel a lot more sensible than actual whales, to me.
Whale sharks are effectively just an oversized non-bottom-feeding version of those fish you put in an aquarium, it’s not strange for a fish to evolve like that.
But actual whales? Somehow a creature looking like a boar turned into pseudo-fishes that spend all their time under water while still having to breathe air, and became so ludicrously large that the smallest ones are human-sized. wtf

If you want me to go on arguing, you’ll have to pay for another five minutes.

i don’t think most people do, tbh. Pretty sure i see people who self-identify as either of them call themselves the other, not even realizing they said a different word.

i feel like part of the problem is that there are jackshit small “cars”, if it was equally easy to buy a 2-seater with a bit of trunk space then i at least hope lots of people would buy that, and that would make things much less inherently antagonistic.

My hot take is that the standard modern car design is fucking horrible in basically every single way, and 99.99999% of people should instead get either a van, minibus, or a 2-seater.

we are not running out of space, that’s ecofascist propaganda. We could probably support like… idk, 10x more people if we wanted to?

The problem isn’t the population size, it’s how we handle things. We have to stop relying on fossil fuels that dump poison into the air, stop having everyone drive all the time, stop eating meat all the time, stop having it be normal to live in a massive house with 5 km² of yard… etc etc…

We need to model things much more like Hong Kong et al (or the netherlands, if asia scares you), than america, if we want to have a nice world to live in.

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at this point i can’t take anyone who says “echo chamber” seriously any more, it’s only used to defend shitheads

as social democrats have shown, copying your shithead competition is definitely 100% certainly undoubtedly THE only way to guarantee 100% that you recover all losses and continue to grow.

oh wait

and then there’s finland, where the world was born from a massive egg or some shit, there’s a lady sitting naked in the ocean, and the main dude is an old weirdo who seems to have severe ADHD (basically a non-edgy version of odin, it’s great)

To prevent it getting lost i want to point this out in its own top-level comment:

Keep in mind that as the copyright holder you can publish your code under as many licenses as you wish, and charge for whichever licenses you wish.
You could publish it for free under AGPL, charge a smaller sum for developers who want/need a more permissive license like BSD 3-clause, and charge out the ass for a full on proprietary license.

Do note though that you’d have to think about how to handle contributions, as that will be copyright of the respective authors and thus you can’t just merrily go and change the license of their contributions. You’d have to ask them to sign a Contributor License Agreement or just straight up manage the codebases separately (which is a little bit of a mess).

don’t forget that the copyright holder is perfectly free to sell copies of their software under different licenses, OP could provide the GPL copy for free and clearly advertise that buying it under MIT or a non-open license is available.

do mind that (and i’m pretty sure this still works with AGPL but this isn’t gospel) you can have the engine be open source while keeping the assets proprietary and requiring they be purchased to actually sensibly play the game.

This is how the original DOOM works, there’s an ocean of modified doom engines but you still have to buy the assets to play the proper actual DOOM game. You can use alternative asset packs but it’ll look and sound like a fairly different game.
And of course it’s vastly easier to create alternative assets for such a simple game, compared to the labour that would be involved in a larger modern game.

except lineageos still supports the original pixel, which is 10 years old.

exactly. I’ve had a pixel 6 for a couple years now and there just isn’t any significant reason to get a new phone, everything runs smoothly and new phones don’t have any particularly useful improvements beyond, like, screen brightness and refresh rate (and even then 60hz is fucking fine)…

unlock the bootloader, install lineage with microg, install kernelSU; bam basically the best smartphone experience you can have until the market gets regulated and stops being ass.

the only way to stop that vector is to never post pictures that show outside where you are

china makes loads of the components in your devices, i don’t think they need to get stuff into the kernel to compromise you…

no musk, i do not want to see how your sausage is made

i am so fucking thankful that i have never used email for any kind of work

are you taking the piss or do you actually think that’s a good answer?

i mean, i would absolutely get rid of the need to poo if i could. A significant amount of the mass in poo is just red blood cells, which you could surely engineer the body to just recycle. It seems to me that poo is almost entirely a symptom of unintelligent design.

Pee is a different matter because there are things we simply have to get rid of, and flushing them out with a bunch of water is a sensible way of doing that. Just tweak things so it doesn’t need to be so very dilute, and you have the ideal waste disposal method.