Nothing in the original post mentions the world. It very clearly says by State and is a map of the United States.

Things like woodworking are exactly where the imperial system came from. Because daily usable lengths like a foot are using base 12 not base 10, it can be divided much more evenly even before needing fractions.

Source needed for it actually working to reduce piracy. It’s possible, but I’m gonna need sources since we know from history that simply providing a better product does more to increase sales and reduce piracy than anything else. People are willing to pay when they get their money’s worth. The ones that don’t, weren’t going to pay anyway, so there’s no actual lost sale.

It just makes the bean counters feel better and help justify their position.

America officially switched to the metric system decades ago. We just don’t use it on a daily basis, but officially the US is metric.

In 1988 Congress passed the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act, which made the metric system the preferred system of weights and measures for U.S. trade and commerce.

In 1991 President Bush issued Executive Order 12770, which mandated the transition to metric measurement for all federal agencies.

China has a larger gaming population than many countries have citizens. It’s one of the reasons a bunch of western devs are trying to cater to that market more, and kowtowing to Chinese government to include their propaganda or exclude reality in the process. The games Chinese gamers choose to really get behind are rarely the same as the rest of the world. So when trying to compare sales numbers, it’s like having a gorilla sitting on the scale.

Technically yeah it’s selling a ton of copies, no one is arguing otherwise, but you also can’t really compare sales directly to other western games without removing those sales figures because they’re an outlier.

No idea, at the time I was just looking for something that didn’t have a subscription and Snipe was what I found that supported all the fields and uploads I wanted. I’ll have to take a look at Paperless.

PiHole, Jellyseerr, Radarr, Sonarr, Emby, Syncthing, Homepage, Home Assistant, and Snipe-IT.

PiHole is self explanatory.

Jellyseerr, Radarr, Sonarr, Syncthing and Emby are used for media management and streaming, alongside a remote seedbox.

Homepage is a locally hosted browser landing page with widgets for network monitoring.

Home Assistant for locally hosted home automation controls.

Snipe-IT for asset management. Way overkill for a home user, but it’s free to self-host. Make sure all my assets are listed, can upload receipts, photos warranty info, manufacturer info, etc. so it’s a single place to find all of that information if I ever need it.

Cool, what are the numbers without China? Chinese gamers are so numerous that they will 100% shift the sales data of a game from failure to success just by themselves, and this game was 100% intended for that demographic.

Yup, don’t care about it. Not my type of game. Also a genre with too many games as it is for the genre to really support, IMO.

It will have to be nearly perfect to pull people from other similar games. It needs to fix the issues the others have, at launch, or it will be dead on arrival.

I’ll believe it when I see it. These claims always end up being full of shit somehow. 190,000 of those hours will have been the tutorial area or some shit.

No idea, is Google Maps listed as being safe for kids? It even has a default built-in search option to find nearby bars.

Either way, they removed the app from the entire Play Store, not just from kids accounts, or family sharing. Google specifically has as a separate account type for kids, ostensibly for the exact scenario they seem to be claiming is the reason for the removal here.

That would mean EVERY map app would be in violation since those places exist and are indexed by all of them. Including Google Maps.

This is what I did after running consumer Linksys and ASUS routers, including with OpenWRT.

I moved to a Unifi setup and haven’t had any issues. I can manage it remotely if I need to, like another household member needs something changed or fixed. I’ve never had to restart it to fix an issue, it just works.

Easy upgrades without having to replace the entire setup and move settings over manually. Especially easy wireless upgrades, almost just plug and play replacing the old access point antenna.

And if you need just a small setup and you run a home server you can run the management software on there instead of something like their dedicated Cloud Key device.

Captain Freeman is a married officer.

But her spouse isn’t on board. And Mariner likely wouldn’t normally be either if she weren’t in Starfleet herself.

But they then change pricing like 4 times over the next 3 months to bring it to a semi reasonable level at least.

Nvidia just says, yeah the high end shit is $3k. Suck it. Up to the day a new one launches, or even longer sometimes.

So a second question is raised, if the members are still allowed to strike in solidarity and in THEORY can’t be punished for doing so how is GTA6 really exempt from the strike then IF they are using SAG-AFTRA members?

Members striking in solidarity probably aren’t eligible for any union assistance. During a strike there are programs in place for helping members with some bills, etc. that would not be available. This is one of the things that Union dues usually go towards, having a financial war chest saved for when strikes are necessary.

I was gonna say, it’s usually the property taxes that make up a significant part of the difference.

Which in turn also means higher rent charges by landlords, so renting doesn’t even really mean you avoid it, it’s again just obfuscated in a different payment so you don’t see it.

A primary reason Texas has people moving in to avoid taxes. Texas has no State income tax.

This is turn means other taxes are higher to compensate, just like States with no sales taxes, or property taxes, etc. The money to run things has to come from somewhere, if spread out across multiple tax sources then each individual source is a smaller percentage. If you remove one of those tax sources, then others will need to be higher to compensate.

People don’t think about that though, they just see that there’s a specific tax missing and think they’ll have fewer taxes taken overall. Which could be true, or not depending on how the state’s tax revenue is structured and if own property that has a higher tax rate. For instance, gas taxes on fuel may be higher, and if you have a vehicle with poor mileage, you’ll be paying more than you would otherwise. But most people aren’t paying attention to the “hidden” taxes that are just embedded in everyday prices. Do you know what the tax rate added to a gallon of fuel is in your State? I doubt it. But you probably know what the sales tax rate is, or close enough to estimate for purchases at least.

To be honest, TX probably has fairly low fuel taxes though since they have a massive oil business, but the example applies to most sales taxes, regardless of the type of sale/purchase it is.

I wonder how many of these houses are gonna be underwater in 50 years, too

There are already sections of Florida with subdivisions that were planned, had roads made, and are underwater now. You can take a look at some on Google maps, just look at the coast near southern Miami. Not the satellite view, you’ll be seeing other land structures meant for erosion and flood control, but looking at the regular map view you’ll be able to see some areas with unnamed roads that were never developed further.

I really want to see someone use the lack of any AI accountability as an active defense in a copyright trial for piracy. Force the court to compare the “theft” of a digital item like a book or movie that is used a few times probably, to copying something that is then effectively used internally every time the AI generates something.