Funny... but please don't do this.

The Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially. This is due, also, to existing intellectual property rights. Under EU copyright law, rights holders enjoy exclusive rights over their creations. In addition to copyright, other intellectual property rights may also be relevant as they may protect different visual and technological aspects of a video game.

Let's call it what it is. It's transphobic dogshit.

The fact it will pass by default if not taken to a vote is stupid, but it's probably what will happen under the current transphobic administration.

I'm sorry, but it's not my job to clean up a billionaire's rotting platform.

X and Facebook profit from petty conflict, spread misinformation for clicks and their leaders are horrible people. Those platforms can die for all I care. The less people are on there the better.

If people want to talk to me, they can and do contact me directly.

Ok, I didn't know that there was this effect. I'll admit I don't know much about health and nutrition.

That said, shouldn't we consider all sugar content when evaluating how healthy an item is?

After all, you can take orange juice and ultra process out all the healthier stuff, leaving only the sugars. Those won't be "added" but they won't be any good for you, providing a marketing loophole of "no added sugars" for companies.

Added sugar vs natural sugar is a distinction without a difference, and the fact that it has been made so far seems silly to me.

Yeah, calling the only black dude Shacklebolt as well. The more you look the worse it gets.

Both. Both is true.

The company should be sued into the ground. This is horrendous

Controversial take (though maybe not in this community):

If it's needed for survival, it should be free. No exceptions.

Source is a 2015 xkcd comic:

https://xkcd.com/1599

Sometimes the conspiracy theorists pop out of their echo chamber and make a statement that seems reasonable and widely accepted to them but can only be believed if you first believe 17 layers of propaganda, leaps of logic and generally brainrot. Usually all fed to them by bigots and billionaires.

They are then surprised by normal people clowning on them and instead of reflecting, they just tell themselves they know something the normies don't and that makes them special.

Reminder that there is a petition for UK residents, now with 500 000 signatures: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

Social housing typically doesn't look as good as high-end apartments, but it doesn't have to look terrible. Here's some pretty neat looking social housing in south Paris.

It's kind of the China Town of Paris.

It's right next to an accessible tram station, has green spaces and social areas spread around, a couple of malls with great independent restaurants right next door. There are cycle lanes all around the place.

If you're curious, here it is on Google Maps

I'd live here. I only wish there were more neighbourhoods like this.

Hey, as long as you don't try to

• Sell it
• Claim it's yours
• Use it instead of hiring professionals if you're a business

not too fussed.

To be fair, markdown is a very cool standard.

While I don't know if it really makes sense for Notepad to be anything other than a plain-text editor, there are better tools for that, supporting markdown is kind of nice.

This means you have support for it on fresh Windows installs, which could be good for virtual machines. That said, Markdown is intrinsically pretty readable without formatting anyway.

It's a shame they flubbed the implementation though...

Janet Petro—the first woman to hold the position since its founding 67 years ago—wrote that diversity programs “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,”

In 2021, when she was the director of Kennedy Space Center, she spoke at length in an interview about the value of diversity, saying “our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success.”

The turnaround is giving me whiplash.

There's no begrudging following of the rules, it's wholeheartedly embracing the new regime.

It's not certain this is true, but it's somewhat likely. At least, that's what I'm getting from the Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_(tortoise)

She was not kept as a pet by Darwin, but she may have been collected by him on a journey, then kept at a museum(?)

Also, can we add rakes and other garden equipment too?

Well, I'd summarise the X-Files as (no spoilers):

• Mulder has his sister (purportedly) kidnapped by aliens as a child.
• As a result, Mulder is an occult nut who wants to spend all his time investigating supernatural stuff.
• For some reason the FBI lets him spend all his time doing that. (Kind of nepotism maybe?)
• They send Scully to go watch him, but she does a terrible job of that.
• Every episode there's a different monster or paranormal thing. Mulder says something like "It's Bigfoot", Scully says "That's silly, Bigfoot isn't real", then they see it is Bigfoot but Scully tries to rationalise it away.
• At some point Mulder gets tangled up in government conspiracies.
• He makes it his side job to try and crack those conspiracies, but continues his monster-of-the-week formula of normal paranormal investigations for the most part.
• As time goes on, there's more and more conspiracy unwinding stuff, but they never fire him or kill him because one of the secret cabal members has a soft spot for him.

More stuff happens in the later seasons, but I'll leave it out for spoilers.

TLDR; Mulder is not anti-government / FBI, he's anti-secrecy and anti-conspiracy. He's an occult nut who just wants to engage in his hobbies on the government dime.