Th4tGuyII

Exactly. You've got limited time to tell your story in a movie, so establishing a fake currency that nobody except hardcore numistatics nerds will care about is kinda pointless when everyone already understands that credits = future money.

And as you say using a real currency doesn't make sense in most future movie contexts, and using the "wrong" one may even offend some people who may then boycott your movie - which is obviously not desirable when you're a studio trying to make money.

I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.

Turns out lack of regulation is a double-edged sword.

On the one hand, the quality of pirate sites varies wildly - with some being virus infested hellholes.

On the other hand, there's no legal bullshit to get in the way of them providing their service. Their competition can't easily just cut them off from content.

And because they're operating privately rather than publically, they're incentivised to operate sustainably rather than chase quarterly profits - which oftentimes benefits their "customers"

I'm surprised this misconception isn't more common. Conservatives constantly run on reducing the cost of living (despite doing the opposite), so someone actually vowing to do it with a plan in mind seems perfect for this lot

Exactly this. Universal healthcare still leaves room for private facilities and insurance, it just forces a minimum standard on the market that they clearly don't want in the US

I mean it's nice to have someone who actually knew Zuckerberg say the quiet part out-loud, but anyone who surprised to hear this must've been living under a rock for the last decade.

Corporations have never cared about the children. In other countries, the same corps that preach about caring for children have them working as slaves in factories. Don't think for a second that they care.

In my eyes anyone wearing one of these is a pervert. I simply don't see who else could be the audience for a purposefully discreet camera built into a pair of glasses. Even Google's attempt at glasses were more overt that these. I'd say Meta is shameful, but that's not exactly a shocker to anyone at this point.

Edit: Seen a few suggestions, but my counterpoint to all of them is - you don't need the camera to discreet fir any of these purposes. You'd only need it to be discreet if you didn't want people to realise you were filming, which just seems aimed towards perverts in my mind.

Some would argue you want to leave the Wi-Fi on, even if it wastes some electricity. Turning it off whenever you leave becomes a good indicator of when you're out of the flat/house for anyone watching - because you're not likely to randomly turn it off like with the lights or TV

Its funny how much the US bawks at even the tiniest of international accountability.

The US has put more action behind screwing over the ICC for trying to prosecute Israel over its literal war-crimes in the middle east and Genocide against Palestinians, than it has over the billionaire paedophile ring that occurred right under their noses.

Because how dare any other country or authority tell the US what it can and cannot do in the jurisdiction of said countries and authorities.

Well that's a great incentive for clickbait content - cause now it won't matter if you can keep people watching after you've reeled them in.

You'd think this would be against YouTube's own best interest, considering they want to keep you watching, and people don't often like watching that kind of clickbait-farm slop...

Or maybe I and the people I know are in the minority, and a lot of people just watch it whether they like it or not, which would be disappointing to hear.

On the brightside, if/when the Switch 2 gets CFW or homebrew, they'll have an otherwise useless button to make use of for their own keybinds

Honestly, yeah.

For certain niches, the Fediverse is great - but it absolutely does suck for local community stuff.

Big tech platforms make those hyper-niche communities easier to set up, in exchange for all that sweet sweet data - and that won't change anytime soon.

To do that on Fediverse you'd probably have to host an instance and get people to sign up if they aren't already. Which for a techy or privacy orientated group they might actually do - but I don't picture most hobbiest groups having the technical know-how or want to do that.

Maybe one day enough of the population will become tech-savy or privacy aware that niche local community Fedi instances might actually become a thing - but that day certainly isn't today

Yeah, there's a reason many instances are defederated from Threads. It's a classic strategy, and the only way to avoid it is to not give them the foothold they want.

I do understand wanting to give people a trial of sorts without having to dive in - but personally I reckon that's the best way to do this, and its the way I did during the first Reddit Exodus (RIP kBin)

As long as you do some research to avoid the more toxic spaces, and are respectful, people here will help you figure out the rest.