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Not surprised with the lobbying group.

Ross did an amazing job addressing the babble in the statement. Specially because he's being extra careful on saying things to the best of his knowledge - note how he doesn't say "it's false", or "it's a lie", but rather "a German lawyer thinks this is false" and "this sounds like a lie"; gotta respect that.

Some additional comments:

The first paragraph of the lobbying group's statement might sound like an introduction, but it's already a straw man - it's clearly misleading the reader on what Stop Killing Games is about.

as the protections we put in place

Excuse me?

1. Sod off with this "THINK ON PROTEKSHUN!" idiotic argument;
2. let us not forget the main concern when it comes to data protection are companies harvesting data so they can sell it to their "affiliate partners" (i.e. data vultures eager who'll use it for targetted spam).

Note #1 is a cancer way more widespread than just the gaming industry. Every fucking bloody time some megacorpo wants to fight against some sane customer protection law, they babble shite like this. And it always sounds like "a user/customer is not a rational human being, it's irrational trash, and if you let it do what it wants it'll cause itself harm, so We need to protect those filthy things. And how convenient, the way to protect this filth against itself magically aligns with our financial interests!"

these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.

This is not even a fallacy. Not even bullshit. It's simply to be a lying bastard, and to call the readers bloody muppets by proxy.

1M+ sign European Citizen's Initiative "Stop Destroying Videogames": Help us protect gamers' consumer rights!

I think it would be sensible if the word "gamer" was replaced with "citizen" here. Because it's what politicians care about.

He's also the guy who tried to institute three new letters to the alphabet:

• ⟨Ↄ⟩ or ⟨ↃC⟩ for /ps/ [ps]. Modelled after ⟨X⟩ /ks/ [ks].
• ⟨Ⱶ⟩ for [ɨ]~[ɯ]~[ʉ]. Not a phoneme for sure; I typically analyse it as an allophone of /u/.
• ⟨Ⅎ⟩ for /w/ [w]~[β]. Interestingly he didn't make a new letter for /j/, but I guess it took longer to fricativise than /w/ did.

They're useless but show some rather interesting insights. For example, the letters were modified versions of ⟨C H F⟩ - so you don't need to create new tools to press those letters (e.g. in wax, or to preview in charcoal something you'll carve in stone), you can simply adapt old tools to do it. He also showed awareness of allophones in his native language, most people don't do it at all.

I was almost mentioning that.

By Darwin, Huxley and Haldane: why are our playgrounds the same organs as the garbage ducts? Why???

The "bittersweet shipping": you know it's canon, and you know it'll never happen.

I live in in the southern region of brazil. The problem of homelessness here is by no means solved but at least some State and City governments are genuinely trying, through government companies (Cohab, roughly "habitation company").

Basically: if you have no house, and your monthly income is low enough, here you can subscribe to Cohab so it eventually "sells" you a house. You do pay for it but it's a rather low amount*. No sane mid class would ever consider those houses - but if you're homeless, it's still leagues above living in an irregular shitshack near the river, made of cardboard, metal sheets and random planks.

Additionally, water and electricity are really cheap if you're poor enough, and your household consumption is below a certain threshold.

The federation also has a similar project (Minha Casa, Minha Vida my house, my life), but... frankly I can't trust the federation to not divert tax money into someone's pockets.

* I think R$150~300/month ≃ €25~50/month is typical. For reference, minimum wage in my State is R$1.984,16 ≃ €300 per month.

Now, here's the catch: the local governments are doing this shit with a tiny fraction of the income the city, state and federal governments in USA have. Why the hell are they not doing something similar? Because of all that ideological meritocracy babble?

Not in the picture: a really, really mad dragon.

They made Atou absolutely adorable! Seeing her embarrassed at the start, then pouting after the charity...

Also, great job highlighting the contrast between how Atou sees Takuto vs. how the dark elves see him. Not just in look (he looks like a shadow, that was already in the manga and novel), but also in "mood", he's supposed to be an Eldritch abomination from their PoV and the anime did a great job at it.

The opening was also cool IMO.

...perhaps I'm a bit too excited because it's one of those series I anticipated quite a bit, but so far it's a decent start IMO.

• some episodes of Ah! My Goddess, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Overlord, and Darling in the FranXX.
• Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2
• The Lion King
• Matrix

It might look completely random, and... well, it is! I'm rebuilding my "videos" directory, that I share in my LAN. By doing so I always hit something interesting, drop whatever I'm doing, and watch it.

[Warning: I'm mostly rambling.]

As usual you need to be careful with metaphors: they break once pulled hard enough.

The metaphor implies the security layers are independent, and always addictive. Often they aren't - they interact with each other, and often the presence of one layer makes the other worse. It's like double bagging condoms - they rub against each other, so they make you less protected than if you wore a single condom.

The "holes" are often dynamic, and they might change place over time. Sometimes the vulnerability crossed a hole of the first slice, hit the second slice and stayed there, until the second slice's hole aligns with it. Then the vulnerability crosses into the third slice, so goes on. If you're dealing with human beings, that's basically any system.

"NEEDS MORE LAYERS!" is not always the solution. Sometimes you're better off - in cost and security - if you replaced a few layers with a better one. Try mozzarella instead of Emmenthaler.

This is yet another case where people don't notice the root of the problem, because one of the branches is so fucking large it takes the whole scene.

Spot the common element between the text and the following:

• When Internet Explorer still existed, Microsoft gave you no way to remove it.
• Later on (Edge times), Microsoft went out of its way to ignore your browser preferences and shove Edge down your throat.
• Google: Enable Play Protect? Enable Play Protect? Enable Play Protect? Enable Play Protect?
• "Because we're not designing a desktop for people who like to choose their own terminal emulators." - Bastien Nocera, GNOME dev
• Plenty pieces of software offer you a choice between "yes" and "maybe later", but rather curiously avoid the word "no"
• "Subscribe to our newsletter!" (i.e. spam). The only negative answer is worded like "I'm braindead trash thus I don't want to subscribe".

It's always about actively disempowering users. Even if technology was expected to do the opposite.

Why this matters: because even if the image + text generators went away, or got heavily regulated, or whatever, the problem still persists. And it'll still pop up elsewhere.

Solve this disgusting "Stop treating those THINGS as if they were human beings! They're users, not humans! Those things exist to be herded!" mindset and you'll solve the problem.

Ah, got it - I didn't realise you're running a personal instance. Now it makes sense what you're doing.

If I had to guess, most people in RVs would rather live in a house. It's just houses are not affordable in USA; I've seen posters from there talking about this in Lemmy all the bloody time.

Based on that I don't think prohibition is the right way to go. Instead make sure people can afford houses, and the problem goes away. Additionally the ones living in an RV by choice would be even freer to keep with their lifestyle - those are likely not an issue when it comes to zoning laws, as the main reason you'd want to live in a wheeled home is to travel.