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I wonder how much of that is actually parents texting kids, and how much of that is that kids are using that as an excuse to why they checked their phone mid class.

That seems like one of the easiest excuses for kids to make that is hard to argue against.

Some fraction of people that start out that way end up addicted and spending way more money on gambling then they should.

The response is probably that gambling is designed to be as addictive as possible, and while your friend might think they will not get addicted, is it really a good risk to take?

I get the feeling they do not in fact take age verification seriously and just want to do the low effort solution needed to satisfy various countries laws.

One key point of insight is that companies are counting single line AI autocomplete as an AI generated line of code, pumping up these metrics quite significantly.

There is not a finite about of wealth, but the wealthy are currently using their position to reduce the amount of wealth the average person has, by driving up prices of everyday requirements so that they can make more money.

It's not an issue that they are wealthy, it's that they are abusing that position to gain even more wealth at the expense of the rest of the population.

I'm fairly certain that would not work at all for media such as sci-fi/fantasy books, where a system like this would result in people just forever reading older books which are free and effectively kill the market.

There is a limited amount of time to read in a day and the amount of 10+ year old content that is still amazing is more then anyone could ever read, and it's hard to compete with free.

I think video games is actually kinda an anomaly when it comes to copyright because they have been, on average, getting better and better then games released even in the recent past, mostly due to hardware getting better and better. Also any multiplayer game has the community issue where older games tend to no longer have a playerbase to play with.

Same could be said about movies/tv shows that rely on CGI up until somewhat recently where the CGI has pretty much plateaued.

It seems really clear that the order as operations is as follows:

1. Administration makes demands of Harvard to change the way it's operating to fall in line.

2. Harvard stands up against these demands.

3. Administration is using every means possible to punish Harvard for daring taking a stand against it.

This is what dictatorships look like.

You know the game Paper's Please?

Where you are running border security for a totalitarian communist state?

Even that game doesn't want you to detain people for having an improper work visa for entry, just turn them away.

For me it was removed 3 days ago, and around 70%~ of my friend group had it removed around the same time.

Swapped to firefox not looking back.

They hit the theme/immersion perfectly for me.

Lots of other games it feels like you are playing a game, there are parts where you like "yah this is like this because game mechanics" that break immersion a lot.

Almost nothing in Helldivers 2 breaks your immersion.

Also, they legally cannot sell the game in some EU countries and not others, due to EU single market rules.

So yah, they are kinda fucked if the EU comes after them legally.

Not all players got this banner, especially players from countries where they cannot sign up for PSN accounts.

They never should have allowed sales in countries where people cannot legally sign up for a PSN account. Especially when they allowed those players to play for months and are now "banning" them, preventing them from playing the game they paid for.

In addition, literally the only place where this requirement was stated was the steam sale page - the EULA had no mention of the PSN account, Sony's webpage explicitly stated you did not require an account to play playstation games on PC.

I'm sorry, but 331 drones and missiles, including 110 ballistic missiles is not a symbolic gesture.

Those missiles and drones could have caused a lot of death and a lot of damage if the defense was any less then it was.

Also, they did cause a lot of "damage" in terms of expended defense capabilities.

What appears to be the same bodies from a debunking a hoax video from 2 years ago:

https://youtu.be/-DmDHF6jN9A?t=415

The far more likely future in my mind is countries using robots to automatically defend their borders from illegal immigrants/climate migrants.

When we have Texas already employing floating buzzsaws on their border it seems like if the technology is created it will inevitably be used.

Saying just "Hi" or "Hello" is asking for a synchronous chat, whether by text or by voice.

Lots of people prefer talking to people rather then writing each other letters.

Yes it's arguably less efficient, but lots of things that people do are inefficient, and if they prefer that means of communication it doesn't really hurt and in my mind is just polite to oblige them.

For some context, the streaming website kick is funded primarily (solely?) by offshore crypto casinos, such as Stake.

That website has had massive deals with streamers in the past, but they have required those streamers to spend large amounts of the money gambling on their website as part of the contract, meaning that they would claw back large amounts of the money.

So while the number may look massive, in reality it will probably be a much smaller take home amount.