I can’t comment on “space fantasy” specifically, but I like when fantasy builds complex science and engineering on top of their magic. The magic in something like the Stormlight Archive is compelling in its own right, but it’s massively enhanced by seeing how the ancient civilizations leveraged it to build advanced societies, and how they invent new things using the lower level tools over the course of the story.

lol I have to go back to the bank (when there’s a manager, because there wasn’t last time🤦‍♀️), to turn online banking back on for my account.

It got turned off because I didn’t pick up some spam call they made.

It’s not odd. If that’s who you interact with, that’s who you’ll be friends with.

Age is a number, and friendship with someone with life experience isn’t going to hurt anyone.

The thing with that is that it’s actually a useful generalization to make in a lot of scenarios.

If you know nothing about the distinction between two possible outcomes, treating them as equally likely is a helpful tool to continue with the back of the envelope guess. Knowing this path needs 5 coin tosses to go right and this one needs 10 is helpful to approximate which is better.

Your example is obviously outside the realm where you have zero information, so uniform distribution is no longer the reasonable default. But the idea is from a reasonable technique, taken to extremes by someone who doesn’t fully get it.

It is. His point is you can replicate the gooey texture with a cheese that’s actually edible with almost zero effort, though.

Apparently I phrased it badly because every vote on it is down lol.

So it’s probably my bad.

That’s literally my point.

Most people know that email isn’t tied to a provider app.

Email providers absolutely block other email providers who abuse their system.

It’s also not even close to how email works and plenty of people use email apps that aren’t tied to a provider.

If they actually get implemented? There’s a good chance your prices from anything that touches China will increase by most of the listed tariffs. Since it will disproportionately affect China, it’s possible some stuff will eventually pull manufacturing somewhere else, but that isn’t going to happen overnight. Moving manufacturing is not fast and no one else is equipped to just flip a switch and take over for them.

Your income will likely not increase 60%.

A lower bar to win a civil case doesn’t entitle you to a fishing expedition. Courts have (correctly) thrown out bullshit subpoenas of people actively admitting to infringing activity, with the plaintiff promising not to pursue the infringers themselves, as part of a suit against the ISPs.

Online posts aren’t grounds to compel information except in very specific circumstances.

I’m not talking about downloading.

You can say that you distribute content all you want. It is not actionable unless they can directly connect you to actual evidence of actual distribution. Forum bullshitting is not evidence.

It’s a virtual certainty, because you control the information.

The lack of imports has nothing to do with the new places not wanting it and everything to do with the old place holding your data hostage. Having a clean, formally defined source of your data is all it takes to make building an import from a popular network trivial.

You’re ignoring transaction costs.

Also $15/month is batshit insane.

Yes, your content. That’s the only thing anyone ever claimed you keep and the only part that would make any sense to have value. It makes it incredibly simple to make that history available elsewhere, and it’s incredibly likely that a future platform that emerges will facilitate that process, just like all the book platforms let you import from goodreads.

If the format is clearly defined, that’s literally all that matters for data to be useful. In the event they shut down, it only takes a single solo developer to make it trivial to browse your content.

Physical data is difficult to preserve. Digital in open, clearly defined formats is not.

The data absolutely is valuable.

Having your content means having your content.

No, there isn’t. Admission is unconditionally not grounds to gain information.

The literally only way there’s any grounds to give them a single bit of information is in response to a direct, clear, action facilitating distribution of specific content Nintendo owns. They could provide direct evidence that they have pirated every piece of content Nintendo has ever made and it would not be excusable for Nintendo to even ask for their information.

Its akin to google reader and rss. People could export their rss feeds when google shut down google reader, but without an rss reader, it didn’t matter. That data had no usable context.

And much like a big RSS reader shutting down, being able to have the core data in a documented format that can be worked with makes it far easier for the community to build the tools they need to work with it and extract things they need from that blob of data.

You might not be able to easily jump to another social media platform, but you still have access to all your posts and history, and that has a lot of inherent value either way.

Talking is irrelevant. It’s debatable whether they’re actually entitled to even compel the sub to be closed, as they didn’t allow links to anything infringing, and discussion is protected. I just ignored that because I don’t care.

Nothing there says anything that indicates there is any effort to restrict the information gathering to people actively distributing anything on the relevant platforms. Trying to demand the personal information of participants in discussions without direct, explicit proof that that account actually distributed pirated content makes them bad people. It is not excusable behavior.