It’s not altruistic, but the blog post outlines why they’re doing this. Underappreciated volunteer-run dependencies can have security flaws that impact huge swaths of the tech sector. Investing a few grand now to secure those tools instead of significantly more money to do damage control after a vulnerability is found and exploited makes sense. It’s a preventative measure that benefits the entire industry, GitHub and its parent company Microsoft included.

Unironically yes. He’s part of the Daily Wire. He’s a right wing ghoul who has explicitly called for the extermination of “transgenderism” (read: trans people). I don’t know if he still does this, but he has gone to college campuses to raise a fuss and then complain about the intolerant woke leftist commies who protest him being given a platform on their campus. He’s anti abortion, anti IVF, and has run defense on Trump raping women.

These people are flames that only burn as long as you feed them oxygen. Don’t bother giving this guy any more attention than he has.

To my understanding, vacant housing refers to housing in which someone is not currently living, including housing that is under repair/renovation, needs repairs, or is abandoned/condemned.

https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/census-reveals-vacant-housing-mysteries

Also, of the housing that is vacant, two thirds are vacant for 6 or fewer months, and ~85% are vacant for 12 or fewer months. The median duration of vacancy is about 2.4 months. Only a small portion of vacant housing is actually vacant in the way people typically think when they hear vacant housing. Freeing up the ~10% of housing that is actually vacant long-term the way people think just would not alleviate the housing crisis. We gotta build more housing, y’all.

https://www.tiktok.com/@divasunglasses/video/7189814160165702955

Unfortunately it isn’t actually that straightforward. That number includes abandoned and run down homes that are currently unlivable, houses that aren’t actually on the market because they’re being remodeled, they exist in the middle of nowhere where people don’t want to live, etc. Fundamentally, the problem with housing in the US is supply. We don’t build enough housing in the places people want to live.

While on the topic, a lot of people say that housing is commodified and that’s why it sucks. This is not accurate. Housing is treated as an investment that should go up in value over time, not a commodity that can be easily bought, sold, and traded.

If anybody is interested in learning more about housing in the United States from someone who studies this full time, I recommend Clayton Becker

itch capitulated in like the worst way what do you mean. they nuked a bunch of stuff and stole money that they hadnt paid out to creators yet even for non-delisted games. itch is hardly “fighting censorship” in that regard. dont bother boycotting them or steam though. call visa and mastercard daily to pester them about their recent changes that have affected digital storefronts and dont let up until they reverse course. thats where your pressure will make a difference. three people refusing to buy from steam anymore will do nothing at all.

psychology is science

source: i am also a psychologist

Yes. The scores aren’t bad so much as they’re not particularly good. They’re barely skating by with those scores, but a 2.0 will still let you graduate at most colleges.

GPA stands for Grade Point Average. Assignments that score 90–100% get an A. 80–89% are Bs. 70–79% are Cs. 60–69% are Ds. Everything below that is an F. Don’t ask me what happened to E. I don’t know that’s just how it is.

Your GPA is a reflection of your average scores for all your assignments. Usually people mean GPA to refer to their cumulative GPA from all of their classes, not just one. A 4.0 GPA means you average an A on every assignment. 3.0 means you average Bs. 2.0 means you average Cs. 1.0 means you average Ds. 0.0 means you average Fs. So a 3.8 GPA would be good because it means you’re scoring As and Bs on your assignments. A 2.0 would not be great because it means you’re consistently averaging Cs (either lots of Cs on assignments, or lots of Bs and Ds averaging to a C, or some combination like that).

It’s possible I messed some of this up because this is stupid and confusing and needlessly convoluted, but the tldr is that yes, a 2.0 and 2.1 GPA are not particularly exciting. That said, Cs get degrees.

I feel like Allay would be a nice name

My understanding is you can absolutely end up with a lien and other such things, so it wouldn’t be a good idea unless you’re ready to burn every financial bridge with the US for the foreseeable future. But if you’re not coming back, then that’s that I guess.

nO yOu HaVeNt sorry for not including a link that took me three seconds to google, asshole

https://www.reddit.com/r/expat/comments/1bwy9qt

Europe doesn’t use the same credit history system as the US; so yes, it quite literally is a different planet in that sense and you quite literally can start new. This is not financial advice.

I’ve heard of people getting their credit score up, taking out all their lines of credit, then dipping to Europe for 10 years to start a business. By the time they came back, their credit scores were fine again because it had been long enough to not affect it. Obviously planning to do this ahead of time is illegal, but if it just happens by circumstance and you’re stuck in Europe and can’t pay back the debt for 10 years then like…

Oh my god I think this is one of the two games from my childhood that I first played and have not for the life of me been able to find

The other is some weird frog sidescroller platformer I got at Staples as a kid in the late aughts or possibly early 2010s

WizTree my beloved

He wildly misunderstood/misrepresented the initiative two videos in a row (and continues to ten months later), and he continually discredits the entire initiative because of contrived edge cases.

I think this paragraph from this twitter reply really sums it up:

My dislike of the initiative stems entirely from the wording to keep all games in a “Functional Playable State” after sunsetting which is not possible for all games and could limit what kinds of games people make in the future.

The idea that creativity would be hampered because games would have to remain playable when the company shuts down servers one day is ridiculous. Can you imagine if we talked like this about anything else? “We can’t force every phone to use the same USB-C charging port because it would be too technically infeasible to do so and hamper creativity.” “We can’t outlaw CFCs because they’re useful chemicals and it would be technically infeasible for some products to be made without chlorofluorocarbons (the things that fucked up the ozone layer).” “My dislike of the initiative stems entirely from the wording to ‘make cars limit their emissions’ which is not possible for all cars and could limit what kinds of cars companies make in the future.” Ridiculous.

It’s absurd that I’m not exaggerating when I say his opposition to Stop Killing Games entirely boils down to “I think companies should be allowed to take games away because it would be really hard for them to leave some games playable when they’re done supporting them 🥺”

I used to passively like Thor, but when I watched those two videos he made last year about SKG I lost all of my respect for him.

Mamdani is going to lose what? He already won the primary and since he’s running as a Democrat he has functionally won the NYC mayoral race when that happens.

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sigma lion isnt real he cant mog you

sigma lion:

To me, “he died” puts an emphasis on what the person actually went through. To die is to experience the process of dying. “He is dead” puts the emphasis on his current state, not on the transition from life to that state. Linguistically, I consider dying to be the process and death to be the result. You die once, but you stay dead forever (medical resuscitation notwithstanding).

I have no clue how many other people think of the phrases like that, but that’s the rhetorical distinction I draw between the two.