People modify (“deal a huge blow to” in your words) their bodies all the time to fit certain preferences. Be it tattoos, piercings (including earrings), cosmetic surgery or even stuff like body building.

It is not that strange that people want to express themselves with their body.

He uses a microcontroller though for his breadboard PC. A microcontroller that is built in a fab.

I mean it is for GTA online if I understand this correctly. Cheating in multiplayer is a shitty thing to do IMHO.

In Singleplayer I’m with you. My game, my computer, my control.

Why the heck did nobody yet develop an alternative like we’ve seen with SimCity/City skylines?!

They would make so much money and fuck EA.

Years ago you needed to send them a check every month. You also mostly got paid with a monthly check.

For some (historic) reason bank transfers are very underutilized in America. I think it gets better though? I don’t know am not 'murican.

The “this would never happen to me” mindset really is cancer to logical thought and reasoning.

I somewhere read (maybe it was thinking fast and slow by Kahneman?) that even psychology students learning about certain behaviors would later anonymously claim they would never fall into these patterns. But plot twist: they are also only human, so of course they also could fall into these patterns.

Another example: People that think they would never fall for a scam. If it is the right scam they will fall even more easily for it than people that know that it could happen.

“Of course it can’t be a scam. Scams are obvious and only idiots fall for them.”

I needed to scroll way too much to see people mention marketing and advertising. It’s a huge deal.

The power of good advertising is not to be underestimated. There is a good statistically proven reason why so much money flows into it. And it’s not only traditional advertising but viral and “astroturfed” advertising.

That’s a strange hill to die on. I mean sure I will also never buy this game but with inflation it’s just a matter of time.

I would much rather have a higher initial cost with no macro transactions in game.

I once moved ~5TB of research data over the internet. It took days and unfortunately it also turned out that the data was junk :/

And with crowd strike we have seen how reliable Antivirus is.

Ahh if that is how it is.

Then tell me: What will a kid think when seeing boobs?

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What do you mean with this?

Well the default here is that you pay even for water at a restaurant or similar…

Before I visited the us myself I didn’t know about the obsession with coffee y’all have. I mean coffee is also very important in Germany but I think you have us beat.

Well you do need to trust the checksum provided. That is the one you are checking against. Better would be a signature from a key you trust.

In the end a modern torrent is just a hash.

It is click bait. Textbook click bait

I didn’t know anything about Aesop Rock beforehand and for a long time thought he was talking about Kirby from the games.

Did explain the question about why they are the leaf.

Google takeout is the best gdpr compliant platform of all the big tech giants. Amazon for example lets you wait until the very last day they legally can.

Also they do minimal processing like with the metadata (as others commented) as it is probably how they internally store it and that’s what they need to deliver. The simple fact that you can select what you want to request and not having to download everything about you makes it good in my eyes.

I actually see good faith compliance with the gdpr in the Plattform

Lemmy really is a bubble… Comments like this are really alienating me sometimes. Growing up not in abject poverty but also not financially secure does change my outlook on many things.

The multiple comments of beeing surprised that someone can find moderately expensive chocolate (which in itself is mostly a luxury good) luxurious really feels to me like people making fun of socioeconomically worse of others. It is probably not meant that way tho.

In my experience even really rich people don’t think of themselves as rich. There is always someone with more wealth in their circle. What really separates the haves from the have nots is the things they take for granted. This can create friction with the people that either can afford these things but don’t take them for granted or even worse the people that cannot afford it in the first place.

I do not have a solution for this but it affects almost everyone as there almost surely is someone less well of then them. Who’ll think of one as rich.