[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 26 points 3 days ago

This is one of the points that a French MEP brought up during the meeting. If this is pursued it could as a side effect open up space for digital "orphaned works" which would be fantastic.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 16 points 3 days ago

Some parts of this bill, increasing the places where vaping is not permitted in line with smoking, are very welcome.

But bans of addictive substances only result in criminalising people who are addicted and putting them more at risk of harm, because now in addition to lung cancer they'll have black market goons to deal with as well.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 63 points 4 months ago

Sugars and additives are in nearly all foods, maybe we should stop asking manufacturers to disclose it on the ingredients list.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 59 points 7 months ago

I\ don\'t\ know\ what\ you\ mean,\ I\'ve\ never\ encountered\ any\ annoyances.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 90 points 9 months ago

The article is saying the petition is targeting steam, but the actual linked petition is addressing credit card companies. The text of the petition doesn't mention steam or valve. I don't know what the author of the article thinks is happening here, and they've explained it very badly.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 71 points 9 months ago

They haven't blocked the windows feature, they're using DRM to interfere with it. Microsoft could easily change how the DRM works any time they want, rendering all these hacks useless.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 43 points 10 months ago

Japan has 3 writing systems and this comic seems to be conflating Katakana and Kanji together as "stabby", leaving Hiragana as "adorable". All of them are (long ago) derived from chinese, but only the Kanji still look similar.

I would have introduced Chinese first, and then in the Japanese panel present the stabby and adorable ones both being attacked by flying contraptions. (And a few floating around the korean one, too)

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 148 points 11 months ago

This is a real pet annoyance of mine, and I have seeing apologist posts on the internet about it.

If the actors cant enunciate properly except when they're shouting, that's not adding realism, they're doing bad acting.

If the sound engineers can't get a good audio balance for anything except the loudest moment in a film, that's not a limitation of technology/sound physics, they're bad at mixing.

If the director can't keep all of this in check and make a film that people can actually enjoy, that's not artistic choice, they've made a bad film.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 47 points 2 years ago

You can't misgender a brand. You can't deadname a brand. You can't befriend a brand.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 79 points 2 years ago

Answer wrong. The more of us humans that answer wrong, the less accurate we need to be to get past these stupid things. If google want me to do work for them, they can pay me.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 102 points 2 years ago

French and Portuguese at the convention, their arms open.

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