See the “some more news” video on this guy. He was probably conservative all along but hid it well till recently

Oh he did?.. Well shit. I guess that shouldn’t be surprising, but that’s the first I heard of it.

As much as I also find this gross… At least he paid for consensual services, and didn’t rape people.

I remember when an older netflix ceo talked about never having ads on the platform, there was some high and mighty principle about it… But then money!

Even psychopaths can have empathy for their close ones…

Fucking dystopian late stage capitalism… Every fact is not actually a fact cause it’s sponsored by corporate interests

He also went to a town hall meeting to encourage denying poor people from moving into his neighbourhood, because it would lower his house price…

While that’s really cool and useful, it might be the way a couple of mods interact as opposed to a specific one.

I know Auckland lockdowns were longer and more difficult. But they are incorrect. They weren’t “the worst in the world”. Melbourne had the longest lockdowns in the world.

Auckland had an extra 3-4 months than the rest of the country (for a total of about 6, but Melbourne had basically 9 months.

Well you’ve been reading incorrect.

I live in NZ and was here all through covid. We had, outside Auckland, a total of 8 weeks lockdown, then some mild restrictions for a few weeks, then business as usual.

Places like Melbourne and the UK had over a year of restrictions and many more months of lockdown

NZ had relatively a very short lock down and were one of the few oecd countries that was back to regular life in 2020. Other than wearing masks in certain places you could go to restaurants, movies, regular shops etc.

Eventually there was another lock down, for most of the country it was much shorter. One town had to go longer though cause they kept having cases pop up.

I feel like I should know this, as a I’ve been a pc gamer and extra legal aquirer for several decades… But I’m not actually sure what DRM means?

I feel like the recoil due to low gravity and no atmosphere on the moon would make heavy firepower guns extremely hard to use

I think it’s more they love the game, but hate a specific thing that happens in an update, like their favourite character/ability gets rightfully nerfed, so they throw a tantrum by giving negative review.

Omg I love that episode too. I quote that grammar robot so the time “shuddapa yer face” “shut up your face”

I also am a software developer and use 123 fake street for testing forms all the time.

I’m surprised at how late it was, would have assumed it was pre double digits

I remember as a kid I was really into fantasy things and my dad told me about LOTR and thought I’d like it. I’d read the hobbit for school already and really enjoyed that… But LOTR was painful, I didn’t even complete the first book

I’ve seen his fabric of the the cosmos series and loved it. How does elegant universe rate?

Yes and no. Similar with apps, you can say “well if you’re not paying/seeing adds then we lose nothing by you not visiting”, but, depending on their growth stage, it’s very hard to grow and get investors without a sizable audience.

Say you’re a startup. If you have 10k people and you ignore ad blockers and people who don’t play subscriptions. Then you start preventing people with ad blockers and no subscriptions from your platform and it drops to 1k… You lose investment pulling power.

The effect is amplified, or much worse, if you actually require user generated content as well

I am extremely, cautiously, excited about this.

Trailer looks really promising

Probably leaving a tab with Netflix on it open on your browser, while you du other things