woe is me, a news source that wants to remain independent of outside interests is taking steps to avoid having to get funded by big businesses or the government who'll want to set an agenda...

I'd be more concerned about reading something free and not ad-supported (and like it or not, untargeted ads are next to worthless), as the money has to be coming from somewhere

Yes, but for human related reasons. Humans moved them around a lot in Africa and Asia - moving them from Southeast Asia to India and Madagascar is bound to have an impact on the currents they get caught up in.

Thing is, the message has to be passed along either by an intercom or by the person moving to the next room passing it on... Either way or travels at fastest at the speed of light, so you'll have people in the corridors moving to the next room for an infinite amount of time purely from the time it takes to propagate.

Given you're therefore committing to (at least on average) at least one person being without a room for the rest of time, why not just tell the chap in the first room to keep walking until he finds an available room? In terms of overall inconvenience (overall time spent without a room per person), it's the same as the original as both are infinite, but for the average person it goes from the time to walk from one room to the next to 0

spooky month 👻

-30C is a normal temperature in many countries, doesn't make it any less miserable

Why do supermarkets stupidly pay rent in Manhattan, London, LA or Singapore when they could pay next to nothing to have a store in the Outback or Siberia?

I had to call the electricity company to resolve a fucking clusterfuck of their making the other day (long story short my electricity meter is faulty), and after 3-4 calls I got to someone who said "jesus christ" after I explained my situation and how they'd made it worse trying to resolve it...

She didn't fix it, it's still not fully fixed after a further 4 days including 29 hours without power, but gee did I feel like I was speaking to a fellow human who was trying to help in that conversation above all others I had with them

One reason is that Epic are very dismissive of Linux, while Steam go out of their way to be supportive and GOG are supportive when it's convenient

Another is trying to lock games into exclusives with them, which other distribution platforms don't do so much

That said, if you don't play games without cross platform multiplayer and don't care about Linux support or see yourself caring any time soon, there's not a huge reason to push you towards steam and away from epic. GOG is more of an anti-DRM thing, however barring sales the price and the cut for the devs is identical on all of them and it's the same game aside from DRM.

Green peppers are unripe and so the seeds generally don't grow into anything

A real gentleman would probably say "conjecture" or "unfounded information", but a less explicit word is "nonsense"

Pay a bunch of tax on it then wonder what to do with my extra 580€ a month

Have you ever used either?

To say they're reversed is pushing it as I'm not sure gnome is at the level of the low poly lara yet