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The Inca Chasqui system. Privately-run ones would perform much of the task

The various stick figures I drew during school

History will see the video game preservers as the good guys.

Two alarms, 15 minutes apart

A couple of exceptions to the trend are forums which enforce a barrier of entry and quality control

Resetera

I agree with the boorus. Some of the best tagging systems and implementations in existence

5%. Pray this timeline does not roll a 5 or less in a d100

Don’t use it.

If you have to, it could be as a search result from an engine.

I guessed Reddit’s trajectory would only go (mostly) downhill. I say mostly, because a few new features are useful, like comment searching. Awards are also back. Stayed in Lemmy because the community is more focused

Rice

ur-gir₁₅-re ec₂-dam-ce₃ in-kur₉-ma

nij₂ na-me igi nu-mu-un-du₈

ne-en jal₂ taka₄-en-e-ce

1. Are they useful and/or essential for you/your causes?
2. Is their funding model transparent?
3. Do they need more funds to hit their financial goal for sustaining themselves?

If all answers are “yes”, donate to them.

Google maps, and that is a fallback option. I prefer asking locals on where they go to.

Typically, my local church.

As a principle, I look at causes/entities that actually need the money. If I find one, I donate. Some recent examples: Employer’s Christmas charity drive for children, Lemmy, and Searx

Leaded gas

It’s the same answer to “if you give someone a gift, did they steal from you?” or “is a discount stealing?”

Who?

It’s ultimately an assessment done in a case by case basis. Another example: will you give money to a relative who will use it for gambling? Helping someone turn around their life and enabling their habits are different things.

The 1994-2006 era, roughly the time between the release of Transport Tycoon and Civilization IV

For me, letting go still means I have to take care of myself. There’s no set age, it depends on your life journey.

By working on my self-esteem. A lot of the fear is tying your worth on the outcome of approaching your crush.

If you decouple your self-worth on whether your crush reciprocates or not, then you can come as close as you like.