I've been using Linux instead of Windows for over a decade now. If Linux exploded in popularity I would be afraid enshitification and monetization would kick in super quickly. FOSS can't dominate the market. The market won't allow it. They will find a way to exploit it. This is just a fear based on generalizations. Perhaps it is misguided.

Didn't the gaming community essentially kill Star Wars Battlefront 2 for EA because of the microtransaction PR fumble?

I think the offline gameplay of GTA is becoming dated. Playing GTAV just felt like cut scene, then chores, cut scene, then chores, rinse, repeat. To be fair, I don't understand the purpose of GTA online but it was wildly popular.

> the offline gameplay of GTA is becoming dated.

GTA V is dated. It's 12+ years old.

how are games today different

I don't think it is a coincidence the religiously organized lean right.

Of course they can. A bank would have no problems giving out loans given the pay is coming eventually.

I hope these hypothetical banks will also be giving these theoretical indefinite loans interest free.

Citation? Who is giving unsecured pay day loans on unknown payday? If they did what would the interest be? 1000%?

>Citation? Who is giving unsecured pay day loans on unknown payday? If they did what would the interest be? 1000%?

I'm not a Federal employee and I don't know the details, but there's a banner on my bank's (Chase) website (after you log in) suggesting that they have mechanisms to assist those who aren't getting paid.

What those are, I have no idea. It may well be high interest loans or no interest loans. Or it may waive fees on overdrafts. Again, I don't know. But banks are taking note and communicating with their customers about it.

I see. I imagine its good PR like that cafe giving free lunches in DC.

I worked at a payroll backed loan company and can say there is not many people in the space, for many good reasons.

These banks do not exist.

Isn't the speed of descent of objects falling out of orbit so great they usually burn up before hitting the ground, and wouldn't that speed cause them to easily penetrate into the interior of the plane?

If an object survives reentry far enough to be at airliner altitudes, it will have significantly slowed down already and probably be falling at or near terminal velocity. Of course it depends on the shape and density of the object.

Terminal velocity for a meteorite is still thousands of mph. It’s going to hit like a bullet.

This reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke..

"I bought a donut and they gave me a receipt for the donut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut."

You gotta expense that donut.

Yes for small purchase and "usual day to day" item maybe its worthless to keep track for that

but for big purchase like car payment,house mortgage etc. its good to have it immutable track record so if any problem occurs its easy to show why I own the thing

woosh. That has to be an AI bot.

And the thermal receipt paper is supposed to give you cancer too.

This will be a live event. The stakes are high so I expect it to do well. I also expect he already knows he can do it easily as he will just be repeating the same section over and over for most of it.

I spent a good couple of months learning Blender enough to make a 3D model of a real Zamboni of all things for no real practical reason. That was a couple of years ago and I've forgotten everything and I'm pissed about it. I wish I kept at it.

History is not going to be kind to all these grifters.