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There are multiple publicly accessible food databases out there. Waistline uses Open Food Facts and the USDA food database, for instance.

It's not a community setting or feature. It's a fact of the internet.

If you publish something to someone else's website, you no longer have any control over it. And federation means publishing your content on thousands of websites, many of them not even running the same software. Your comments are out there on mbin sites, Friendica sites, Hubzilla sites, Mastodon sites, Misskey sites, and many others. Someone's pribably got a custom web server they developed, slapped some ActivityPub inside of it, and didn't bother to make it even understand delete requests.

This is the internet. It is public, and it is forever. You really need to treat it as such.

Sure, and all 5 people who were using torrents in 2002 were having a grand old time with them, too, I'm sure.

These are usenet data sales. Usenet is an old network of distributed discussion groups that predates the web by about a decade. It contains a large trove of media and software - particularly older media and software - that is easy to acccess because it's not a P2P network that is reliant others keeping their shares alive.

Many usenet providers offer bulk data plans, rather than continual subscriptions. This means you buy x GB of bandwidth, and you use it on whatever time table you like.These are great if you don't do a lot of downloading, or if you're just trying it out, or if you're using usenet as a secondary or tertiary source for things.

Like the fesiverse, most usenet providers do not provide a full view of the whole network, so it can also be good to have a secondary provider that has different retention policies, so a lot of usenet users will buy these data blocks for that purpose, as well.

GoG isn't the publisher. Y'all don't read the shit you agree to, and know fuck all about media distribution. You've never owned a video game, a movie, or even a book that isn't in the public domain. You've only ever owned licenses for personal use, and those licenses have always been provisional and revokable. Always. Your ignorance is not change that.

You really need to look at what you're buying. Whether it's a download, a DVD, or damn floppy disk, you're still just buying a license. A very revokable license. If it's online, the publisher can cut you off.

So, they're both out to fuck everyone, and just playing for different teams?

That's markets in action. Housing being a market means that it responds to whoever is feeding money into it, and those tend to be people who want to get that money (and more) back out of the market again, not those who are interested in solving things like "housing problems".

For people that play D&D and think “I wish this had more complicated rules…”

2e generally has rules that are on par with 5e, or even simpler in many cases, just written in a way that makes them sound like a software development reference text. The number of times I've been "Ohhhh, they mean X! Why didn't they just say so?!?!?"

The timer also discourages kinds of interactions or engagement with other players that may actually be welcomed, entertaining, and appreciated. It also takes a significant amount of the responsibility of being a referee off the GM's shoulders - you know, that thing that they're actually charged with doing - and turns it over to a clock that they can just use as a cudgle.

It's the classic toxic nerd shit of turning something that should be a social encounter into a souless mechanical system.

Bannon is an anger salesmen. Anger salesmen don't sell you somene else's anger, though -- they can't. Instead, they package up your own anger, and sell it back to you.

Bannon sees the the reaction people are habing to CEOs right now, slapping a big ol' bow on it, and selling it back to people.

The post office is antiquated and better off privarized. That's why, during the strike, businesses whined about the added expense of having to use private couriers, and why the government had forced employees back to work!

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