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It’s not a one-and-done treatment. You need to keep going back, so the doctor’s incentivised to make sure you still want to come back.

You’re already doing better than a whole lot of people if you’re getting invited to parties. Of the people I was at school, university, or work with, I’m the only one who bothers hosting parties, and that won’t broaden my social circle as I already know everyone. Most people don’t have enough living space to have more than a few people over and can’t afford to cater for a bunch of extra people. Even for attending parties someone else hosts, travel and accommodation can be a pain. If you’re not within taxi range and there isn’t abundant late night public transport, you’ll either need to not drink and then drive home, find a hotel, or hope the party is small enough that there’ll be space to crash.

Just like how if people want to be billionaires enough, they find ways to change themselves or their circumstances to make it happen. People only have partial control over who they are and the circumstances they’re in, and the changes they’re able to make don’t always make a difference here.

If you’ve got a magnifying glass, your phone will be able to autofocus much closer if you put the magnifying glass between the camera and the object.

Most software is like this, but you also don’t get to look at the source code either.

It looks like the change happened nearly a year ago, and no one’s kicked up a fuss, so either it was done properly (i.e. past contributors were contacted and consented to the licence change, and any that didn’t had their contributions replaced), or there’s a big problem once a past contributor notices.

It doesn’t make it any more legal to fork the project without going back to the last GPL3 commit, though, as any contributions after the license change have to be assumed to be covered by the new licence, so the combined work would be under an invalid licence (as the old and new licences aren’t compatible) rather than being still covered by the old licence.

Normally, I’d completely dismiss the possibility that a licence change like this could have been done properly, but Stenzek is associated with Dolphin Emulator, which did manage to pull off a switch from GPL2 to GPL3+ by emailing lots of people and replacing a lot of code.

The licence doesn’t permit derivative works, so no forks and no downstream packages.

Sometimes the ones that are a fifth the price on AliExpress are the ones that failed QA testing for the whitelabeller, or they’re the same board with lower-rated components attached, so they’re not necessarily identical.

A trick is to weigh the filament before you start drying it and then weigh it again every few hours to see if it’s stopped getting lighter. If it’s been hours since it lost a single gram, then it’s probably close enough to as dry as it’s going to get, and if it still doesn’t behave, then there must be a second problem.

Someone doesn’t understand the Windows design language. Anxiety would be a yellow warning triangle. That’s a red error circle, so something really has gone wrong and you’re right to be panicking about it, and better remember what it is before the consequences become too dire.

The pun doesn’t even make sense unless the term was already in common use when Hopper wrote it. If you don’t already know what a computer bug is, the note sounds deranged.

This is untrue. I can’t do this because I can’t convince the verification tool that my phone really has a camera, so I can’t show it Norman Reedus.

At the moment, they’re already at risk of being removed by the government, who can make them illegal, and simultaneously at risk of being removed by payment processors, who can prevent the stores from operating. It makes no difference to the government whether they’re also the payment processor. They could remove them anyway. Having two entities with unilateral power to remove something can’t be worse than just having one of them.

If people already mistakenly think existing protections go further than they really do, I’m worried Reform could spin any attempts to strengthen them as Labour trying to screw over fishermen as part of their everyone except us hates fishermen agenda they’ve been pushing since before they were Reform and before the Brexit referendum was even announced. That was something that resonated with voters during the referendum campaign, despite being nonsense, so it could work again.

They can do a really shit job of administering payment processes in a transparent and democratic manner before they end up being worse than the status quo where it’s entirely untransparent and undemocratic. Also, governments already have the power to make things they don’t like illegal, so there’s no reason to expect they’d block payments for things they’ve left legal, whereas payment processors currently block plenty of legal things.

It’s a feature, not a bug, at least when they’re upfront about it. With non-federated platforms, you’re still subject to the domain’s lord and master, but you can’t pick who that is or maintain access to your communities if you upset them.

While Blahaj isn’t the right instance for me, it’s no problem that it exists side by side with other instances, and people who want to use social media with no risk of running into things they’re already fed up with can have a place for that. If you get banned from somewhere, it’s because it wasn’t the right fit for you, and nothing’s stopping you from finding or making a place that is. It’s not like the has to be only one 196, it’s just that the one where all the cool people are is the one where everyone agrees to give everyone the benefit of the doubt on all things gender and sexuality.

Blahaj policy is very explicitly that it’s a safe space, and transphobia and transphobia-adjacent content (and other forms of bigotry) will be removed. It’s supposed to be somewhere people can go and have it taken as axiomatic that their neopronouns are valid, and therefore they won’t have to debate them, so while it’s pretty reasonable to say that you’d prefer people grew to be happy with they and neopronouns didn’t become a permanent feature of English because they’re awkward, it’s not Blahaj-friendly, so can’t be said on Blahaj, especially if you’re going to repeat it a lot.

It’s perfectly reasonable for people to like crisps, but it doesn’t mean I have to let people keep adding them to my cake when I’m trying to eat cake.

Soldiers are supposed to question potentially-illegal orders and refuse to execute them if their commanding officer can’t give a good reason why they’re justified. Being in charge doesn’t mean you’re infallible, and there are plenty of mistakes programmers make that the compiler can detect.

People taking bad-faith legal action will always be able to make up something to complain about. If you’re claiming something that you know is provably false, extra evidence proving it false isn’t an obstacle.

Most of the UK’s COVID fraud was from giving out contracts to companies that knew full well that they couldn’t deliver, e.g. a £40 million PPE contract to the landlord of the Health Secretary’s local pup, so it’s not absurd to claim that the point of those contracts wasn’t to save the economy, but rather transfer taxpayer money from the treasury to friends of Conservative Party leadership while there was still something left to loot. There was also lots lost in loans to fictional companies and furlough payments to fictional employees, of which a minority went to small businesses gaming the system, and a lot to organised crime gaming the system and then laundering the money so it couldn’t be traced and recovered (without giving the Serious Fraud Office and National Crime Agency enough budget to hire a workable number of forensic accountants).