No, because the only defense for its existence is to protect the livelihoods of creators, and if we’re talking “should”, no one should have to justify their existence through labor.

Yeah it’s not that we don’t want to use the train, it’s that the train has been successfully turned into an objectively worse option in every way thanks to decades of lobbying and underfunding. If there even is a reasonable train route between your destinations, it would likely take 2-4x as long as driving, be 4-10x more expensive than the gas for the drive, and would be an uncomfortable and unpleasant experience that would still require a pickup and decently long drive (or further use of the barely functional public transit system) to get to the final destination.

If you’re not a shipping container, there basically is no public transit infrastructure in the US. It only exists in cities that have chosen to make significant investments in it, and even then in most places it’s like one arterial light rail and then some busses with crappy coverage. For anything between cities or states, it’s nearly the same price as flying to get a charter bus or train ticket.

The only thing that would solve this problem is extremely aggressive and unpopular legislation, or some benevolent trillionaire to actually do a hyperloop type project without immediately coopting it into just a shittier highway. Market forces and city governments will never create real interstate transit networks. Less aggressive legislation making it more expensive to keep and especially buy/make new cars would help, but it’s political suicide to say “I’m going to tax the good that almost every voter, and especially the ones with money and influence, have and use every day”.

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From the comment thread it sounds like the contract might be on shaky ground. The original dev seems to be under the impression that a project licensed under GPLv3 can just be freely changed to another license, which it cannot without explicit consent from all contributors. We don’t know the contract language of course, but the dev said it would “likely” not remain open source, which indicates that he told them they could change it. ZippApps’ lawyers will hopefully notice that and refuse to buy, though either way we shouldn’t trust this maintainer again and should move to the forks.

I appreciate KDE for being a comprehensive toolbox that will let just about anyone craft the mouse-driven GUI of their dreams given enough time and effort. I appreciate GNOME for its bold and unified vision, which isn’t afraid to cull features or embrace innovation.

In what sense do you mean “faster” though? If you mean more performant, I haven’t experienced that – both desktops are extremely responsive.

No, genius, that’s a reason to ask for one.

omnibox is one of the biggest QOL improvements browsers ever got IMO. Frees up screen real estate and is very intuitive. If you don’t want to navigate to your domain-like search string just add a space and a comma or something similar.

This is terrible advice, most people don’t carry a knife because it’s just not necessary in everyday life. That quote was clearly written for young boys playing with other young boys: if I asked a buddy for his knife and he said “Where’s yours? Guess you’re not responsible enough for one” I would get a new friend before I got a new knife.

the absolute man-child energy coming off of the downvoters…

Sure, which is why I would start with Django. Or any of the countless children’s media that has anti-racism and inclusion as a central theme.

Because Detroit: Become Human is written by David Cage who writes on about a 8th grade writing level and has all the subtlety of The Rock declaring his next finisher.

Do you honestly think this game is on par with those movies? I think that’s borderline insulting tbh

12 Years a Slave and Django Unchained are the two movies that immediately come to mind – obviously these are specifically focused on American slavery instead of racism generally, but they’re both excellent, and one’s entertaining while the other is devastating (though obviously both are both).

I don’t think particularly ham-fisted and unsubtle allegory about racism is going to do anything to convince racists that decades of drastically better media on the same subject hasn’t done.

Massage. I know that if I did it professionally it would become a chore and I would no longer want to massage the people I love.

And even if they did, in many cases they’d be legally obliged to ignore it in favor of profits this quarter. At least in the US.

Holy fuck how is this not an onion article title…

The channel Horses showed up in my recommendations a couple months ago and I binged most of his upload history immediately. Extremely high effort video essays on a wide variety of interesting topics, with minimal fluff and sparse but gorgeous visuals.

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.” - C. S. Lewis

Inherent in any great joy is the eventual pain of its loss. Even if we were all immortal, everything changes, nothing gold can stay. Your options are to love and grieve, or to cauterize your emotions and go through life a grey husk.

Throwing in a third suggestion for BAR – out of all the TA spiritual successors, BAR is the only one that really gives me the feel of the OG game.

Sacrifice. Still one of the coolest and most unique games I’ve ever played, but severely limited by its late 90s tank controls and render distance. It would be amazing remade.

Don’t even dry them, just use a slow steady stream for the final rinse and just give them a few taps to get off the excess water.