To be valid, the email just has to match [anything@anything]. ,🙃@localhost can be perfect legal if localhost supports utf8 in usernames.

I think GTAO (and RDR2-O) is pretty much unplayable with all the obvious cheaters in each session. Rockstar doesnt even care if someone runs around with a K:D of > 1000:1, ruining the game for everyone else …

The earlier GTA games where quicker to develop because the computers did not have the CPU power or RAM to support large cities, many different NPC models, detailed cars, objects or enviroments. This means levels, assests and the engines where much quicker to develop.

if you double width+height of your map, you have to fill 4x the area with meaningfull content, belivable cities, scripted events, nature, streets, shops, maybe NPS who have a daily routine to walk from one place to another.

Plus, you have to create a large amount of different(!) buildings to place around your map, because you dont want to recognize the same house, shop, park or Parking lot multiple times in the same street. On top of that is car physics, traffic simulation, cop chase behavior and now apparently NPCs interact with each other.

None of this has been done before, and getting this right and bugfree is not trivial - see cyberpunk.

Have you seen that ludicrous display last night?

lso there seems to be a proposal to exclude women from higher education unless they’ve given birth.

Would they not be required for the skilled workforce?

I’m to scared to verify this…

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The could make everything above 1080 quality subscription only, or charge uploaders for the storage. This would probably also cut down on the low quality spam Channels that only exists for ad revenue…

Paid speech!

downvotes come at a “cost”, whereby if you want to downvote someone you have to reply directly to them with some justification, say minimum number of characters, words, etc.

I would choose a different solution. Instead of always up or down voting by 1 point, everyone gets a fixed points budget per day, that is then distributed between each post you vote on. So if you only up vote one post, this vote counts more than the vote from someone who votes on 100 posts per day.

This would solve the mass down voting of legit content on YouTube or Facebook, where quite often conspiracy dipshits in their telegram channels post videos or Channels that should be down voted, while their own right wing propaganda gets upvoted. So the most active accounts who spent all day on the social would be muted, while average User would have a more important voice.

“controlling people from theirself” also prevents them from drunk driving and killing others.

Or you could charge batteries with much more usable power because of fewer losses in the system…

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They can use your wifi signal as a beacon by triangulating the signal strength from at least 3 different points. Then they can figure out in which departments you spend the most time, how long you spend in store, heatmaps, which aisles you skip and generic info like what time you visit, which locations you also shop at.

A quick google for “Retail Wifi tracking” brings up mirame.net , where you can see some of the features.

I would suggest to set your phone to flight mode if you see a “free wifi” sign in your shopping mall.

How else would you play 30 minutes of your own music in a car?

Well, but the same is true for brands selling desktops or laptops with windows, where they only make money once on the hardware (and maybe some additional money by installing subscription crapware like mc afee etc.).

There is an enterprise windows version that comes without tracking, telemetry and auto installed crapware, but it costs more.

“Just switch to Linux!!!1!!” - yeah sure, and throw away the 3rd party software licenses I paid money for in the last 20 years, not to mention the games…

What kind of scams? Amway, Tupperware, herbalife?

Maybe the part with the drug trafficking, racketeering and gang violence inside their hobby club?

• It takes 20 years to build
• nobody knows how much nuclear fuel will cost in 20 years
• you have to take out a big loan and make interest payments on it for maybe 30 years before you start making a profit
• if you don’t have enough water for cooling because of climate change, the plant must shut down
• if your neighbor decides to start a war against you, your nuclear plants become a liability, see Ukraine.

I think smaller, decentralized renewable energy is cheaper in the short and long run and has a much lower risk in case of accidents, natural Desasters or attacks.