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@sun @takao common anonymous textboard software, think like 2ch

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Made the boss drop an item upon defeat. The leaf is just a placeholder. I don't know what it should be in the final game.

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​​​​​​​Ammunition Vending Machines Appear in Grocery Stores

​​​​​​​Machines stocked with ammunition have been installed in several grocery stores across the United States.

https://www.newsweek.com/ammunition-vending-machines-grocery-stores-1921976
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Its developers claim that EntoMilk is a “rich and creamy liquid which looks and acts just like dairy…” The company also makes maggot-derived ice cream. #foodfreedom #health
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/maggot-milk-new-dairy-alternative-another-threat-to-our-food-sovereignty.html
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@dcc Hardware != software.

Hardware has many physical limitations, some which can be worked around with physical modification, while software can be freely modified (although certain types of software running on specialized hardware can only physically have limited kinds of modifications performed).

Of course ideally I would be running a free hardware design of GNU/SoC on a fast freedom-respecting FGPA, but that's not currently remotely practical and the FGPA would still be proprietary.
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sleepover (2007). i would like to thank my teenager self for thinking that this scene was worth photographing

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The shift away from open standards did not hurt these companies in the slightest, and only benefited them. StackOverflow, whose community is most developers, had less than a 2% OpenID usage. Mozilla Persona wasn't ahead of it's time, it was a regression to the mean; a project Mozilla gave up on just like they gave up on ... not being a total piece of shit company that forced resignations of a Christian because of his private religious beliefs.

Do you really think any new federation signon system will catch on, outside of truly open source distributed projects? In the 90s they might have, but today, we have way too many commies who have personal missions to push Code-of-conducts and documentation changes in projects they've never written a single line of code for. The frothing morons on Hackernews will praise such people (the ones who don't are banned) and we watch everything turn to shit under a blanket of ideological luxury beliefs.

I don't want to be negative. I want to believe. But my negative comes from what I've seen with my own eyes. It's a moral panic that is not going away. It will only grow like a cancer.
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NEW ARTICLE - The WHO: Building a Permanent Pandemic Market

In the face of a potentially industry-ending slew of patent cliffs, Big Pharma has begun acquiring biotechnology companies to stave off collapse. To get these drugs to market, the industry is pursuing the only solution left for their dying model: a full takeover of the WHO to capture the global regulatory system.

unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/i

Can someone with experience with GNU Taler tell me if it's potentially better than crypto? Do any of the government laws regarding crypto also apply to something like GNU Taler? What are it's shortcomings outside of it's obscurity.

I'm well aware that crypto has some major flaws but I really do think that it's important for us to have a digital exchange medium that is decentralized and allows us to made (somewhat) anonymous transactions.

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@xianc78 @Spingebill The other thing with the gambling rabbit hole is that there are a LOT of people like Bossmanjack out there, and Eddie is making assloads of cash on these people. They even sponsor people because when they win it's free marketing, and when they lose future addicts will think "oh I can gamble better than he can".

This IMO is going to be the next scandal used against crypto.

Another thing that amazes me about the whole crypto thing is all the governments banning and regulating it because while they claim that they don't want people to use it for illegal purposes, by banning it or regulating it to hell and back, they are ENSURING that people will ONLY use it illegally. White market businesses won't be able to accept it anymore, while the black and gray markets will continue to use it.

Granted the real reason is probably because they want people to stick to fiat and eventually use CBDCs, but the illegal business argument makes no sense.

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