They will probably make it more expensive to legally acquire content that is playable on a dumb TV than to get the same content for smart TVs. You’re paying extra for having indefinite access to the content rather than revokable subscription-based access.

Of course, as a consumer, you can become a criminal, with all the associated increasingly harsh consequences.

Please block this community, it’s meant for questions like this.

tl;dr: The “zero knowledge” proof could have a finite number of uses per block of time for each verifier, each of which represented by a unique single-use key. This way anyone sharing keys would be limited by that finite number of uses, and if people sharing this aren’t coordinated they could end up re-using a single-use key.

If the encryption was stolen without their consent, this could tip a user off prompting them to invalidate the current set and get a new one. And if the verification is used to support a pseudonym like an account for an online service then instances of re-use could get flagged for moderators.

What better way to symbolize shagging in a kid-friendly way than an egg hunt? Look at all those little sperms go, trying to find the egg as quickly as possible after all being released at the same time?

I share your feeling that the latter aren’t fun for me, that’s why I don’t try. But I don’t resent the people that do. In fact I enjoy knowing there are still higher degrees of mastery to aspire to. I like Hades II but after 100%-ing its achievements going further feels hollow and arbitrary. I kinda wish there were achievements breadcumbing my way to a hitless max fear run.

You’re right that envy is not some weird undocumented phenomenon. Nor is my wish for external recognition of the mere journey, for that matter. But what’s important, and what’s earning you those downvotes imo, is that we don’t blame the devs for where they choose to put themselves on this impossible double-bind.

These are our shortcomings, not theirs, and if you externalize your own problems onto them you’re denying yourself the opportunity to grow.

Mines don’t need to be maintained actively, so it would make sense if Iran were about to lose its capacity to sink ships in the strait by other means. As the US said would happen a few weeks ago.

So US media said Iran would or did mine the strait. And sometimes people believe propaganda even if they know better than to trust it.

100%-ing achievements doesn’t represent seeing everything the game has to see, it represents mastering the game and its mechanics in its entirety.

What you’re achieving is getting 100% on a collection log. That is a valid achievement worth celebrating, but it is only one achievement.

You don’t get to erase the achievements of people who did more than you because it makes you unhappy to see them get more out of the game than you.

If you don’t want to get all achievements, that is fine, just accept it means you don’t get all the achievements.

I dropped off there, but not because they explode, which I didn’t know. For me it felt like I got an idea of what the game was going to be like, not really going somewhere new compared to Hollow Knight and being a slog with long annoying runbacks.

Not sure if that feeling is accurate for what it would have been like to continue, but importantly for the analysis it was a culmination of everything that came before.

Bold of you to assume the US and Israel will last generations in their current forms.

The Nazis didn’t create generations of future enemies for Germany.

in meme form

That just isn’t true. It takes far more people to build, maintain, and service airplanes and the infrastructure to support them than to do the same for trains, and even when traveling a train requires fewer personnel per passenger-kilometer. Airplanes and cars are massively subsidized, and their uncovered externalities are much more costly to society too.

IMO that’s what the “throwing at” is meant to convey. The person doing the throwing is doing it at a distance and with low accuracy.

Mixing Latin and Greek roots? You sociopath¹.

Yes, pedocracies are ruled by pedos; the Greek word for ‘child’. See also Pedagogy (teaching children), pediatrics (medicine for children), and pedophily (sexual attraction to children).

A society ruled by pedophiles would be a pedophilocracy. From the Greek words ‘pedos’ (child), ‘philia’ (lust), and ‘cratos’ (rule). Like aristocracy (rule by the best), democracy (rule by the people), or autocracy (rule by oneself).

¹: from Latin ‘socius’ (comrade) and Greek ‘pathos’ (caring).

If only I could believe that’s because MRIs are more important so their supply isn’t in jeopardy.

Who would that be? The Haudenoshaunee? The US has been bombing Iran at least since there has been an Israel.

Why would they accept replacing a senile figurehead with a more competent fascist government? Why would they let the Democrats that had a standing ovation over the commitment to attack Iran go off scot-free?

Project 2025 wasn’t written by Trump, it was written by smarter people who are more dangerous to Iran. Attacking Iran has been on the US agenda for decades. It would be foolish to let the US off this lightly

Imagine if Iran nuked Washington DC, or even every American city with a population over 1 million. Would the US government surrender? Would the American people surrender even if the government did?

I imagine the US government would retreat to its mountain bunkers and say “come and get it”, and many American civilians would join or support guerillas to fight any Iranian attempt at occupation. And that’s true despite many Americans hating the current regime.

So why would the Iranian government or its people be any different?

pedocracy

Ruled by a child? Yeah, that fits.

Do as many people leave his place as entered it?

Maybe you’re using some formal or narrow definition of “structure” but in my experience there are lots of things I would call structures in anarchist theory and practice, from meeting templates to the mental flowcharts of emergency medicine.