Even the US population is like 60-70% left leaning, it’s just that the left has lower voter participation rates.

Left leaning vs leftist is a much higher bar and I’d wager under 20% of the US (voting) population is leftist. That’s just based on my memory of how few leftist representatives we have in congress… Far from an exact science.

I am definitely a liberal, but I’m by no means a leftist.

I feel like I looked into that once upon a time and it was illegal in my state (Ohio).

I have seen something like that though, at times it’s a bit too much IMO. I’ve seen some that trigger for pretty gentle braking so there’s just a strobe light distraction in front of you over relatively minor things.

I try (if I have time myself to do it without hitting someone and am just in front a mess) to “wake people up” a bit by rapidly tapping the brakes before hitting them hard (to hopefully make my brake lights flash).

Probably hoping to crowd source the engine development to reduce costs, but honestly no idea.

tldr; the developer of Eve (“CCP”) is going to open source their engine

This is the real answer. People didn’t care enough to pick better in primaries. Democrats didn’t have one (largely from tradition) and Republicans actually voted for Trump to be their guy.

As a home owner, the cost of “what you’d have to pay to own the home” is extremely variable and to an extent down to dumb luck.

I think it’s sufficient to say no individual should be able to rent out more than X number of homes where X is what that individual could reasonably take care of. I’m okay with corporate rentals, particularly in the case of complexes as well.

Basically, I don’t think small business or individuals that live in the area that do rentals are the problem. If someone wants to rent out houses as their primary source of income … sure why not.

It’s like anything else though, there needs to be reasonable limits to stop gluttony. I think a limit of “you can have 1 rental property” is way too low though.

I think there’s a reasonable argument for local (and responsible) landlords to exist. Not everyone wants to be tied down to a property or have to worry about repairs.

Dead by Daylight and that genre in general.

“Let’s all play a horror game where someone running is like a person casually browsing the mall.”

If you want more than two options vote for Democrats in primaries that support ranked choice voting initiatives. As it stands, you realistically have a binary choice and until you have ranked choice voting that will continue to be true.

Because if enough people do that, it actually can result in that state not “doing what it always does.”

Assuming voting for X is going to result in Y getting elected over Z “anyways” is not a good strategy for getting what you want.

The fediverse as designed is actually pretty inefficient. If it ever were to go to Reddit scale it would melt down.

That’s because there’s effectively no batching for federation currently … every single vote from an instance is forwarded back to the instance hosting the community and must be processed individually. So if you get 500k votes on something even if it’s from 200 servers, the servers hosting the community have to be able to withstand the flood of votes and store the associated data… And that’s just votes.

Worse yet, those votes then get replayed to every single one of those 200 servers one by one. So every server needs 500k vote entries and all the associated traffic … even if half of the servers are just 1 guy looking at cat videos once a month.

Federating actually is way more expensive than just adding another user as designed.

I’m really glad AT&T and Verizon decided to step in and start competing. At least in my area it’s changed everything, Spectrum (formerly the only cable provider) is now offering much more competitive pricing and better service (though AT&T has earned some loyalty because the fiber and symmetric speeds have been really great.

Following the Biden admin pricing transparency regulations I was able to get a better price as well.

Gotta say, Americans do seem significantly dumber than the average world citizen.

Presumably what an American once said about Germans. It can happen anywhere with the right stream of propaganda.

That’s really interesting! I’d heard the white flight explanation for downtowns falling apart, but this adds a new layer to it

Old School RuneScape potentially fits this description

Depends on the particular telling I think. DC has IIRC gone both ways with that.

IMO, it shows security is not a priority for them. Just because you’re on LAN it doesn’t mean encryption is insignificant. There also isn’t really “LAN” there are just networks, so this necessitates using some sort of server even in the case where you have an IPv6 or IPv4 address that would otherwise allow you to directly connect to your peer.

Seems interesting. I’m a bit concerned that they don’t see encrypting direct traffic as an issue though https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/wiki/FAQ#i-only-use-rustdesk-for-a-few-devices-on-my-local-network-with-no-internet-connectivity-can-i-still-use-rustdesk-with-direct-ip-access

Mixed feelings on that since games that get delisted often get delisted because some critical servers they depend on are going offline.

I’m not sure if that applies to Forza … but personally the last thing I want is something that’s about to be delisted.