My point wasn’t so much that I think RED is shady but that exposing my IP seems like an unnecessary requirement to join. Why can I not have my membership tracked via an anonymous account? If they are concerned about account harvesting or something, then the interview already seems like a good enough measure, accompanied by seed ratio minimums.

Same. I also found that, for my usage, I wasn’t actually saving any money compared to the unlimited data plan.

Yea it totally broke my Eternity client and I had to kill it and restart.

• pistachios
• kombucha
• daiginjo sake
• omakase sushi
• fried risotto balls
• duck (e.g. foie gras)
• filet mignon
• venison jerky

Thank you

Interesting! It’s possible your teacher was trying to keep things simple, especially since most English speakers probably couldn’t tell you what the subjunctive mood is.

I don’t think I learned about the subjunctive mood in Spanish class for 5 years, by which time I was in the 8th grade.

OP, thanks for asking. I feel seen.

1. Using the past tense instead of the subjunctive mood. “What if she was gone?” Nope. It should be “what if she were gone.” People (in the US) seem to get this wrong most of the time, except for a few common phrases like “If I were you, …”.
2. The words “whilst,” “amongst,” and “amidst.” I get that there is a certain history to these words, but I personally never use them as they seem like meaningless alterations. When I hear them, I roll my eyes, but I try not to judge too quickly.
3. “Irregardless”. It’s not a word.
4. “Could care less”. An oldie but a goodie?
5. Overuse of commas. I don’t like seeing them as strictly a way to introduce a pause in speech. Commas have specific grammatical purposes, and using them without such a purpose breaks my expectations as a reader.
6. Confusing “nauseous” and “nauseated”.

Can you really call Matrix “fediverse software” if it doesn’t implement ActivityPub and therefore doesn’t federate with the majority of Fediverse instances?

I haven’t noticed. Of course there is sponsored content in the UI. I haven’t noticed it in the “auto DJ”, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it exists to some extent.

Call me basic, but I have no shortage of new music from Spotify and YouTube. Spotify recommendations plus shared playlists from friends. There are a handful of YT channels that host pretty consistent quality musicians, like NPR Tiny Desk, KEXP, Colors Studios, Zildjian Live.

All things in moderation. Hard work is a virtue, but it’s good to recognize when it’s not paying off for you.

Vonnegut is so based. Just all the time.

Sorry I know this isn’t funny but I am now imagining a desperate game of Scrabble and the winner gets a pittance of rice.

I believe so, but I’d have to do a little more research to say with certainty. There is a particular supreme court case that serves as an example. See Tillman v Wheaton-Haven Recreation Association.

That’s a US Supreme Court case. The OP case is in Australia.

I’m not familiar with discrimination laws in Australia. In the US there are exceptions in the Civil Rights Act (1964) for “private clubs” though I don’t think courts have consistently defined what that means.

I’m very curious to hear how this case turns out under Australian law. Personally I think it’s counterproductive to exclude trans women from a women-only social club. But if a US court ruled this social club was in fact a “private club” then they could legally discriminate in whatever way they desire, be that by excluding men or trans women.

Sure! Here’s a 100PB thumb drive.

Time to stock up.

Book a night at Trump Tower.

I’m not convinced, considering the US and many other countries with high standard of living are also leading the world in external debt (both total and per capita).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt

Maybe you mean debt to GDP+wealth ratio? Or more specifically, bad credit with international banks.

I’m not an economist though, so I’d be curious to hear if there is more explanation for why you consider debt to be “the main reason.”

I am aware that some countries have been “screwed over” by large banks that had specific detrimental stipulations for debt forgiveness though. For example, look at the Latin American Debt Crisis.

…the Fed convened an emergency meeting of central bankers from around the world to provide a bridge loan to Mexico. Fed officials also encouraged US banks to participate in a program to reschedule Mexico’s loans (Aggarwal 2000). As the crisis spread beyond Mexico, the United States took the lead in organizing an “international lender of last resort,” a cooperative rescue effort among commercial banks, central banks, and the IMF. Under the program, commercial banks agreed to restructure the countries’ debt, and the IMF and other official agencies lent the LDCs sufficient funds to pay the interest, but not principal, on their loans. In return, the LDCs agreed to undertake structural reforms of their economies and to eliminate budget deficits. The hope was that these reforms would enable the LDCs to increase exports and generate the trade surpluses and dollars necessary to pay down their external debt (Devlin and Ffrench-Davis 1995). Although this program averted an immediate crisis, it allowed the problem to fester. Instead of eliminating subsidies to state-owned enterprises, many LDC countries instead cut spending on infrastructure, health, and education, and froze wages or laid off state employees. The result was high unemployment, steep declines in per capita income, and stagnant or negative growth—hence the term the “lost decade” (Carrasco 1999).

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/latin-american-debt-crisis