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I think maybe I could use Elasticsearch as a NoSQL database as it's now FOSS.

At least this would be less confusing than using nested SQL statements.

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@Humpleupagus @pepsi_man — that’s why we’re inclined to call it home education rather than homeschooling. ;) I’ve no desire to turn our learning environment into a replica of government institutions.

Although, we do utilize traditional school-like methods if it suits our needs and gets us where we want to go. For example, Kahn Academy has at times been popular around here, especially when someone is wanting a better understanding of how to use math.

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if any adult-oriented platforms come up in the wake of this they are going to have to accept crypto only and THAT is what will thrust crypto into mainstream use. just wait. maybe now would be a good time to buy if you think that's going to happen.

the only way that doesn't happen i think is if some government out there decides that payment processors can't decide what people can and can't buy with their own money. the notion that they CAN control that is already just so fucked up.

Though I think the best and long-term solution is to just create a web framework that allows people to self host their games while also providing payment options without having to implement that stuff manually.

Like I said earlier, I don't think porn games will go away. They have always been niche and most of them were self-hosted for this very reason. Games like Sociolotron required you to purchase the game directly from their website. Other games were purchased via mail-order. I think we will simply go back to the former.

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With itch now censoring porn games, I kind of want to restart work on that one indie game hosting site that I was working on, but I really hate working with databases and if I want to include payment, I would have to do it with crypto, which I have no experience from a dev standpoint, and I would have to do a bunch of research on the current legality of crypto in various parts of the world.

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Buried in Proton's AI announcement today is a pretty shocking detail about their service 👀

Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.

#Proton #Switzerland #Privacy #EuroStack #ProtonMail

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I repeat:

In 1971 the federal minimum wage was $1.60 per hour

That’s 1.82 oz of gold per week in 40 hours

Today that would translate to approx $150.00 per hour and $6000

That’s what

they

stole from Americans
https://bird.makeup/users/lindytasteful/statuses/1947329509100761464

Installed Linux Mint on my System76 Gazelle. I forgot how solid it is compared to Pop_OS.

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Trump took a bullet to protect Jeffery Epstein's clients

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A friend of mine has been working on self-improvement now for a few years and I have been helping him out where I can. His objective is to be more self reliant and less dependent on the state. In practical terms it means he has taken the plunge and moved to New Hampshire, refused state aid, and is learning to be more independent. For him this means learning to traverse the town on his own, do his own grocery shopping, and get to and from various nearby places where we have held weekly social events by himself.

This is frankly amazing as he's been told his entire life that he'd be depended on the state and others for the rest of his life. You see the reason for that is my friend is blind. However what we have been led to believe and what many people with disabilities have been led to believe is that those with various sorts of problems couldn't do this or that and then given only one option: take money from the state. What most don't know is that this money comes with strings attached that hold the more ambitious, like my friend here, back. If he were taking money from the state he'd be unable to take a job.

The truth is he can work when people give him a chance. He's a professional in the audio production world editing podcasts. He's now started a new business as a baker making and selling bread.

For 1 Goldback (or an equivalent in crypto, about $7-8) you can now get fresh extremely delicious bread in Keene, New Hampshire. This is until the state comes in and shuts him down for baking bread without a license.

It's time to end the state and let people get back to being productive human beings. My friend has been living independently for the past two years and soon won't need any help that he can't get through free market solutions.

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@hachi @amerika Actually Natural Selection ( aka Social Darwinism ) is the opposite of Eugenics ( aka Artificial Selection ). Social Darwinism is ruled by objective criteria like merits and achievements in life and not by subjective criteria like the color of skin. In fact, Eugenecists and Social Darwinists pretty much do not like each other.
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I remember seeing fossilized footprints in rock formations, outside. Not entirely outside the realm of possibility that they may have been put there, but I think old records of fossil hunts strongly substantiates the claim that they were there before people.

That said, there is NO solid evidence linking oil to fossils. "Fossil fuels" is a forced meme, and based on first principles, it's more likely that oil is a natural formation resulting from carbon and hydrogen in the earth being squeezed together by tectonic pressure.
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If I do sell my game, what would be a fair price?

The game will be FOSS so you can freely redistribute it, either way.

Dev thread:
gameliberty.club/@xianc78/1148

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