you’d think this would be something they heavily try to make sure they get right

eh, I don't think they've tried very hard at anything at all these last few cycles, except to make money

So you can use a sponge and soap but you can't even chill in a tub completely naked like my man Geralt? My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

also you can boo max all you want, that won't make checo any faster

of course this exists, why am I even surprised

"remember to play this game" directly translates to "uninstall me right now"

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Here in Germany taking 3 consecutive weeks off is pretty normal, for me that's also the maximum that I can take off in a row without jumping through additional administrative hoops. A whole month isn't normal, but it could certainly be arranged

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yep there are many like him around the world, and I'd wager to say that most of them are actually potentially more dangerous than Trump because they're smarter and actually have an agenda of their own. What really did the USA in was not the person Trump, but rather that the whole republican apparatus and especially the corporate media went all in with him after it became clear he'd win the primaries. With the 2 party system, that means that basically half of the country was set up to deify him in a way that they haven't really tried with previous republican candidates

the java VM itself is actually pretty damn fast, sometimes even faster than native code because it can optimize code paths while it's running

applications built with it tho, I'd say hit and miss but honestly we all know it's a miss most of the time

It's almost kinda creepy how much it feels just like the other place

IMO whatever comes next needs to be decentralized from the get go, like a torrent system where the network sort of automatically scales with the user count. The fediverse is pretty cool right now but it's bound to get shitty real soon as people get tired of fronting the costs purely out of goodwill. Either the cost need to be spread around such that the individuals paying it really don't mind, or there needs to be an incentive to pay / way to monetize that is aligned with the common goal of a decentralized social network. Otherwise we'll end up with either a network of insignificant size (arguably what this is now) or a monetized shit hole like what Reddit has become

I keep thinking about how a system like that could work but I'm sure someone smarter than me has already figured out that it can't