PC.

Consoles used to be cheap enough to justify their limitations. Nowadays, once you buy the console, controller(s), controller charger, PS+ subscription, and a few games, you could have bought a PC with better (or at minimum, the same) graphics, more input options, a WAY bigger game library, and FREE online play. You already pay for your internet connection, why should you pay again because you want to play Playstation with it?

Plus, your platform is (almost) always backwards compatible, you can play on custom servers, you can play with mods, and if you’re just dying to play some console games, emulation is also an option for you.

Not to mention, if you don’t have one already, simply having a desktop PC makes computer-related tasks and even web browsing SO much easier than with a laptop or, even worse, mobile device.

Double check you don’t need a different driver for a wired connection. Double check it’s not using the default 360 controller or default USB controller driver. Confirm Bluetooth will solve the problem by testing with a USB dongle before committing to a card. Save your receipt so you can return it or keep it as a backup solution.

This isn’t new. It’s always been this way. He’s just finally saying the quiet part out loud.

The FCC has always asserted governance over the airwaves on the basis that only so many frequencies are available so regulations are required to ensure their limited availability goes toward the advancement of the public good.

Because the airwaves are freely available to anyone with an antenna, one of the ways the FCC “ensures the advancement of the public good” is regulating what’s allowed to be shown and said on television under the basis that children are watching at home.

The FCC has a long and varied history of enforcing censorship on the airwaves. It used to be that women’s periods couldn’t be mentioned, it used to be that actors had to keep one foot on the floor so they didn’t show “a man and woman in bed together.”

Violators have always been subject to fines and revocation of their license. Corrective action has always been at the sole discretion of the FCC. The only thing that’s changed is how openly aggressive the FCC has been wielding their authority.

Historically, the FCC has always been regarded as having too much power, but they’ve always managed to avoid regulation by wielding it responsibly and conservatively and generally not pissing off the public to much. The current administration is highlighting why this has been a mistake.

Yeah, but if you’ve ever been involved in a big project at work, you know that 80% of the progress comes from 20% of the effort.

The “getting to know you” phase. All the same questions and answers, where are you from, what are your hobbies, how many brothers and sisters do you have, giving the same answers as always but pretending not be bored by it.

Things are much better once you either get past that stage or mutually decide it doesn’t matter and just get to what you came for

No paywall link 404s

Oh, I know why…

There’s not much to see in the red areas. All the tourist spots everyone wants to visit while on vacation are outside them.

When I was young, the assumption was that no information could be trusted. We were taught that everything you read was written by a person with an agenda; who that person is and what their agenda might be needs to be accounted for when parsing any message.

ITT: Gatekeeping readers.

Everyone claiming reading is superior because of some vague sense of it communicating the information “better” or because of your own subjective experiences sound just like all those people who thought the printing press would be a disaster because people would waste all their time reading instead of listening to people. Same energy, different time period.

If both people come away with the same understanding, what difference does it make? You can’t tell whether they read or listened unless you ask them. There’s nothing you can ask about the book that will give any indication one way or the other.

[citation needed]

If two people are standing in front of me, one read the book, the other listened to it, if both of those people know what happened in the book and can discuss it with comprehension, I’d be unable to tell which one read and which one listened. So, does it really matter? Seems like a distinction without a difference to me.

Lawd I hope so. Love me dat purple drank, imma grip and sip

Yeah, i hate it when people won’t drink my piss

Some people are just fucking assholes. Or they’re a 16-year-old edge lord. Never forget that high schoolers and children FAR outnumber adults on the internet, and of those adults, assholes, dickheads, and morons comprise the vast majority of them.

I downloaded an offline copy of Wikipedia in 2019, so probably that. Others, use wayback machine, it’s too big to upload here.

Oh yeah well I have a skidoo in my peeble joiner using a flimflam from doop

Crows are cool. I’d welcome my new friend and give him food and shiny things

In a roundabout way, kind of, but not necessarily. If you break the word down, AN means “without” and ARCHY means “ruled by”. So you can have a MONarchy that is rule by one (mono) person, and you can have ANarchy, which is rule by no one.

Anarchists are against institutions that create or enforce authority or hierarchies. So, if an individual didn’t want their work to be FOSS or creative commons, that would be fine, but an institution that attempted to do the same thing or enforce that idea on everyone would be against Anarchist principles.

Prometheus is the best example most people would be familiar with. Fire represents knowledge, so the theme fits. Many other civilizations have myths about stealing fire, but they’re usually attributed to a generic trickster, rebel, or indigenous animal that’s viewed as cunning. In the US, this is usually a rabbit, hare, or sometimes a crow.

Besides stealing fire, a journalist, printing press operator, scribe, archivist, record-keeper, librarian, or something like that might also fit.

Yeah, a bunch of boring, repetitive fluff telling us what we already know. It reads like an ad