Yeah, dryers themselves are a waste of both money and energy.

You are correct that it is the natural progression of this kind of censorship which is the reason this kind of censorship is a bad idea in the first place.

Money is anything that someone is willing to exchange for goods and services in a stable and semi-predictable way (i.e. you need to be able to plan ahead at least long enough to know if what you get for your current transaction, e.g. your paycheck, will be able to buy you what you need to buy in transactions in the foreseeable future) and that is easier to store and/or exchange than actual direct bartering (good/service for good/service directly).

By that general definition most crypto currencies are not money because they are too volatile and transactions are too complicated and slow.

But that is asking the wrong question. The real question isn’t “What is money?”, the real question is “What is value?”, as in why does money have value at all, what backs that value. Money only has value because a large amount of providers of goods or services with inherent value are willing to exchange those actually valuable things for your money. And the number of those can vary over time because supply or demand for a good or service increases/decreases.

Most crypto-currencies are not equipped to deal with those fluctuations in the availability of actually valuable things by adjusting the money supply. Not to mention that the required money supply also depends on the velocity of money and how much people store away in savings and don’t touch at all.

Or in other words crypto-currencies are an incredibly primitive attempt to solve a complex problem with a solution so simplistic it is not fit for purpose.

That theory was mentioned often in the early 2000s when most people stilled used pseudonyms online but it has been debunked since then by the many people who feel perfectly fine spouting the same kind of hate on social media under their real name and sometimes even in video form.

Physical repercussions do not exist in the real world for anything but the most extreme of actions. If anything the culture of lying to each other’s face (a.k.a. being polite) and looking away when abuse happens makes abuse very common in the real world, just ask your average minority or retail worker.

I mean they literally came out and said that they hate empathy.

It takes at least 15 minutes to get back into it if you get interrupted for even a minute or two. An hour is not unreasonable for a cold start, so no, that is normal, you are not shit at it.

To be fair 90% of the corporate bullshit we are looking at today is born out of the same mindset as popups.

That is just not true. Plenty of nice people online and plenty of assholes since before online was even a thing for the average person. In fact if anything it feels like those assholes from before are re-asserting themselves.

Ah yes, you have figured out that if you consider whatever you believe to be the “correct answer” people who give the “correct answer” likely also agree with you about closely related topics.

Well, at 2 years it is probably older than at least one other game.

“easily”, I guess console players are used to the pain.

Years after the initial releases VR still very much feels like a solution looking for a problem. As long as the industry doesn’t figure out why it should even exist there will likely just be a slow decline and there is no chance for growth.

Depends on what is calculated. Calculating all digits of pi 5.1 times per second seeems pretty fast.

I don’t see why anyone would expect anything else out of a “what is the most likely way to continue this” algorithm.

Not sure about Lemmy but I think on Reddit it used to be called 13 or 30, not 14 or 40.

I might be misremembering but I think I read somewhere that they already had the itjust.works domain.

I can honestly say I know how every single one of the TVs I ever owned in my life worked (all 0 of them).

Goals and priorities might differ a lot between an ant and a human but not so much between two humans. At least not enough to not get at least a few rules for behavior.

I am sure scamming people out of their money with crypto is legal in a few jurisdictions.

Dwarf Fortress (old style ASCII mode) is a good one after buying a new graphics card.